Dorm grounds [after sunset]

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Luke had a hyperactive puppy to babysit over the weekend and the both of them had been cooped up entirely too long.

Which was why they were outside. Luke was wrapped up his robe--even if wasn't cold enough for people not from a desert world to be particularly chilly--and was trying to make a pile of leaves using the Force (it was taking a while, most of the leaves on the trees by the school were still stubbornly stuck to their branches) so he could jump in them.

Vladdie was, well, not making it easy. He considered two leaves a pile and was blissfully tearing through Luke's attempts to make it any larger.

[OOC: Open like a big space outside.]

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Luke picked up on her emotions immediately. "Vladdie, go fetch," he commanded, waving his hand out and sending a stick flying, seemingly under its own power.

Vladdie went tearing after it, yapping shrilly.

"It's hard to picture my father with a dog that could wear outfits, huh?" Luke asked with a slight eyeroll.

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Adah's eyes, but not her head, followed the dog on its departure, for a moment, before they returned again to Luke, her eyebrow quirking. In all honesty, she found it a little difficult picturing anyone wanting to keep an animal like that around. What was the use of it? It moved in ways that left her confused and blinking, its barks were too shrill for her senses and...well, yes, there was the outfits part to consider and you probably couldn't even eat it if you were stranded without food. She stopped believing in pets that couldn't be eaten during times of crisis.

Then again, this was coming from a girl with a dead vole skeleton under her bed...so it was okay that Luke was just keeping an eye on the puppy, so she offered him the crooked beginnings of a smile by way of a belated greeting. Gnit eer g'deta leb.

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Luke smiled back. "It's only for the weekend," he repeated. "When I was growing up, Uncle Owen didn't believe in having anything around the farm that didn't serve a purpose. I'm afraid Vladdie wouldn't have made the cut."

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With a quirked eyebrow and a drop of her chin, Adah's expression peeking out from her hair told Luke that she would have had to agree with his Uncle Owen on that fact, if it weren't for the fact that she, too, would most likely have joined Vladdie in the cut if that were the case.

Her smile then turned a little apologetic as her shoulder shoulder lifted, then fell, in an expression of futility. Without her notebook and without much light anyway, she was afraid her conversational skills were even more dramatically lacking.

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"You're doing fine," Luke said quietly, replying to the emotions he was picking up. He glanced at her jacket. "Finally! Someone who understands that's getting cold here!"

Not really yet, no, Luke.

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Adah's left shoulder went up this time and stayed there, a pantomime against the potential, encroaching chill. Of course she knew it was going to get much colder, that this wasn't really cold at all, but she hadn't spent time in a temperate winter in far too long. She figured she'd better just prepare herself. She then glanced up to the sky, her hand snaking out of her pocket to be held out, in front of her, as if to catch something.

Still no rain.

She'd been thinking about rain a lot today.

Her hand ducked back into her pocket.

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"I miss the rain, too," Luke said. "It never rained on Tatooine. That's what we were trying to do: pull water from the sky. In the desert. It seems like a waste of time, huh?"

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Well.... Adah drew in a breath, exaggerating her efforts to make herself seem hesitant to admit that, yes, it did mostly seem frivolous, which created quite an interesting contradiction for his previous statement regarding his uncle's concern with usefulness.

No. She retracted that from her own brain in her pantomime of hesitation. It seemed unlikely, pointless, potentially unrealistic. But the idea behind it was still very useful. She gave Luke a small, apologetic smile as she finally gave up on the act and agreed softly with his observation.

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Luke looked a little ashamed of himself for having complained about a life he was no longer living. "It was incredibly important," he said, "because there was no other way people could live on Tatooine otherwise. But it took forever, was incredibly tedious, and tending to wear people down very quickly." He shrugged. "Most would never make enough to be able to afford passage to another world anyway. I wanted out in the worst way."