Salle [afternoon]

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Talking to Sam in the clinic yesterday had only increased Luke's never-helpful "bad feeling," so after checking in on Sam's pet as promised, trying to get Vladdie to come out from under the bed (not happening), and ignoring the irritated glares of Yoda the turtle, Luke trotted down to the salle with his lightsaber and a couple of training remotes.

He slapped a "Caution: Live Fire. Knock Before Entering" sign on the door and then kicked four remotes to life and began to practice, immersing himself in the Force.

[OOC: Open for all of your Jedi-gawking needs.]

Till I Start to Believe - Melanie Doane

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[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

Cassandra was having a Bad Day. This meant that she was more than a bit distracted. Not that she paid all that much attention to written notices in the first place. She was slowly learning to read, and might even have been able to puzzle out what the sign on the door meant if she'd tried, but she still wasn't used to looking for that sort of thing.

When she reached the salle, intending to exercise until she was too tired to worry about anything, she just pushed the door open and stepped inside.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

A ricocheted laser blast hit a few inches above her head, and Luke stared at her in shock, waving the remotes off with his hand. "Are you completely stupid?" he screeched. "I could've taken out an eye!"

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

It was a sign of her distraction that Cassandra didn't drop into a crouch until after said laser blast impacted. She blinked in confusion at Luke, "What?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

He stomped over to the door, and pointed at the sign. "Knock first," he said icily.

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

"Didn't see it," she mumbled before turning to look at the sign.

She stared at it intently for a moment, her mouth hesitantly forming the words. "That is this 'knock'?" she asked rapping on the door in demonstration, "And not this one?" she mimed drawing a bow.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Which one makes more sense with 'live fire'?" Luke asked acerbically.

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was a questoin she knew the answer to. "This one," she said as she knocked on the door again.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke ran his free hand through his hair and sighed. "You wanted to use the salle too, I take it."

He still wasn't quite ready to let it go. "Really, really badly."

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

Inara had headed to the salle with the vague idea of getting some fencing practice in, but stopped when she saw the sign on the doors. Hopefully whomever was in there wouldn't mind sharing, and if they did, well, she could still watch.

She raised a hand and knocked.

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

"I thought..." she blinked, thinking about the words, "Anyone could use it?" She was clearly missing why the whole ignoring the sign thing was bothering him. Sometimes she was a bit dense.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke shut down the remotes and stretched out with the Force. "Come on in, Inara!" he called.

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

She came in and carefully closed the door behind her, smiling at him and hoping he'd share. "That's quite a gift you have, Luke. Very useful."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke sighed again. "Of course they can, but some swords are built differently than others. Mine tends to cut through anyone else's, so I practice with remotes."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"It doesn't work on phone calls," he said with a grin, "but doors I've got handled. Hi!"

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

"Lightsaber," she nodded. Then frowned, "How do those help you?" It's not like the remotes could swing a blade or anything like that.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"The laser that almost smacked you in the head? They shoot those at me. I parry," Luke said. "The better I get, the faster they shoot."

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

Now she looked suitably impressed, "Blocking robots is hard." She would have said impossible if she didn't know he wasn't lying. If they were people shooting, well that was easy, but robots didn't have body language to read.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke looked a little pleased. "I'm up to four remotes now. I can normally get through a workout without getting shot in the ass."

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

"Am I interrupting?" She wandered over to the weapons and started looking through them for the one she'd used before. "I could just watch, if I am, and if it won't make you too self-conscious."

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

"How?" She turned a complete circle in place before adding, "Sometimes behind you." So how could he see to block?

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"It's a Jedi thing," he said. "I can feel the remote getting ready to release a charge. I could do it blindfolded." He smiled. "That's how I learned the first time, actually."

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

"Can you teach me?" she asked, not really understanding this 'Jedi' thing.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I was almost finished," Luke said, "at least with remote training. Would you like a sparring partner?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Not really," Luke said apologetically. "It's kind of something you're born with?"

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

She grinned. "Sure. I haven't embarrassed myself in front of you for a while."