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[i_spoiled_it]

Stephanie is in the bar. Well, more or less. She's in the rafters again, although she's not walking on her hands this time; she's lying on a beam being Very Still and Watching People.

She's holding, not wearing, her mask, and she doesn't look like she's entirely comfortable without it on yet.

[Akito and Steph talk about heroes, wars, and giant

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[shipscook]

Part of fighting in space is learning to think in three dimensions. Otherwise you can watch the entire area around you and still be surprised from above or below.

Akito's still getting used to fighting in space. So he walks right under Stephanie two or three times without realizing she's up there.

[i_spoiled_it]

Steph, on the other hand, has been trained to notice everything. She doesn't always remember to do so, of course, but it's getting more and more like second nature.

The fourth time Akito passes Steph she decides she wants to be distracted, and she drops until she's hanging by her knees so that the (fairly heavy) hem of her cape swings across his field of vision and possibly into his face.

"Hey, hi, Akito, isn't it? Still stuck here?"

[shipscook]

Right, and tea, forgot the tea... Akito makes his trip back to the bar pretty briskly, which means he's walking back to his seat at a decent clip when Steph swings down in front of him.

"WAUGH!"

And the teacup gets surprising distance, too, as he sits down hard on the floor. "I...gah! Uh..." he stammers, blinking up at the cape.

"...oh, hi! Stephanie, right? Uh, yeah, still stuck. Haven't tried to leave yet."

Somewhere off over -there-, there's the crash of cup meeting floor.

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"Oops." Steph blinks at the mess. "I really didn't mean to do that." She tucks her cape into her belt, so it's not dangling. "Oh, man, I just keep embarrassing myself here. I'm so sorry."

She feels weird talking to someone without her mask on. She's probably going to be a bit fidgety and awkward all night.

There's tea ... everywhere. "Um, do you want a tissue, or anything? I'm sure I've got some kind of Bat-Hanky in my belt."

[vaapadmaster]

There is a Jedi watching people, and sooner or later, he notices the girl in the rafters. And approaches. "greetings."

[i_spoiled_it]

She leans over to look down at him. "Hi. You look ... interesting. What's your story?" Steph's decided she really likes the kinds of people she meets in this bar.

[vaapadmaster]

"I am Mace Windu. my story? it ends with being thrown out of a very high window, after being betrayed by an ally. and restarts with waking up outside, on the grass, covered in glasteel shards..."

[i_spoiled_it]

"Wow... that's gotta hurt. I'm Steph. Stephanie Brown. Wait, did you say ends? Are you dead too?" She hooks her knees over the beam and hangs upside down, so that she's looking more across at him than down. Somehow he doesn't seem like the kind of guy she's comfortable looking down on.

[opalcity_star]

Jack's at a corner of the bar when he sees her...anc winces.

"Great, another Bat."

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Steph hears the voice, but not where it's coming from. She sits up and glares at everyone who might have said it.

[opalcity_star]

A bright light illuminates the corner where Jack had been sitting...and then he's up in the rafters with her. Well, floating there anyway.

"Yo."

[i_spoiled_it]

"Eeep!" Steph does *not* nearly tumble off the beam, except for the part where she does. She catches herself in time. "Okay, who are you?"