Second Floor Common Room [Thursday Morning]

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge was bored. So he'd dragged the telekinesis ball out of his room, since he hadn't practiced in a while, and sat down crosslegged on a couch in the common room to do so.

After a few minutes, he had the ball floating in a lazy circuit around the room.

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[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"It's always been there for me," Anakin said. "I'm not sure I'd know who I was without it. But it's a trained power. I'm not going to go around moving the buildings around or anything." He stared at the wall. "And at the end of the summer I go back home and continue my training, use these powers to do some good."

[nadiathesaint]

"I'm glad. I have no idea what I'll do when I leave here."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin rested his hands on his knees and turned to look at Nadia. "What do you like to do?"

[nadiathesaint]

"I don't know. Help people, I guess? I'd like to be a spy, some day, but I don't know if I'd be any good. I haven't had a lot of success being sneaky."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"They can teach sneakiness," Anakin said. "And getting reliable intelligence is absolutely invaluable." He smiled. "Jedi do some of that kind of stuff, too."

[nadiathesaint]

"It must be pretty easy for you guys, considering how much power you have."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"Depends what we're trying to get," Anakin said. "We've been around for 25,000 years, so beings who want to get away with something have learned how to adapt to what Jedi can do, too. More sensitive alarm systems, lightsaber-proof doors, droids that can shoot faster than a living being, stuff like that."

[nadiathesaint]

"Sounds dangerous. Do the Jedi ever fight each other?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin pressed his lips together. "Sometimes," he said. "If a Jedi turns to the Dark Side. Then things get...messy."

[nadiathesaint]

"The dark side? He starts wearing too much black in his clothing?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin looked down at his own wardrobe and gave a small smile. "Not exactly," he said. "They take the power of the Jedi--what we can achieve through mastery of the Force--and twist it. Use it for their own purposes instead of for the greater good." His eyes were shadowed. "It doesn't happen often, but when a Jedi turns to evil, the effects can be catastrophic."

[nadiathesaint]

"Yikes." Nadia blinked. " Yeah, I can see where that would be bad. You could probably kill someone with power like that."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"Try entire planets," Anakin said, looking uncomfortable. "Jedi who go dark don't tend to think small scale."

[nadiathesaint]

"Geez. Guess you'll have your work cut out for you, huh?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin nodded. "Fortunately, not a lot of dark Jedi running around right now. We've just got an incredibly complicated bit of politics to deal with that I won't bore you talking about."

Anakin waved his hand and brought the glitter back into the jar.

[nadiathesaint]

"Better knock on wood, there."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin looked confused. "Why?"

[nadiathesaint]

"When you say that something is good because something else didn't happen, you're supposed to knock on wood to make sure that the something else doesn't happen." Nadia shrugged. "I think it's so the Irony Fairy doens't hear you and decide to mess with you."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin reached out and rapped his knuckles on a nearby table. "Around here, the Irony Fairy might actually exist," he said.

[nadiathesaint]

"Exactly."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"Jello dragons and snow monsters attacked," Anakin said, "so why not an invasion of evil fairies?"

He put the glitter back into his pouch. "I should probably head to my room, get some studying done." He smiled. "The people back home don't understand the idea of summer vacation."

[nadiathesaint]

"Well, shame on them." Nadia didn't bother to mention that, what with the play, they'd had an invasion of fairies.

One of which had been evil.

"Have fun."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"Fun hardly ever factors into Jedi homework," Anakin replied, "but I'll try."

He gave her a small wave. "See you around."