Dorm Grounds [all afternoon]

[sith_happened]

After a bath (Anakin's idea) and a stop to wrap Luke completely in bubble wrap (Luke's idea, but Anakin wasn't exactly objecting after watching Luke jump off his bed, his desk, the top landing of the stairs, and the kitchen table), Luke and Anakin were now out in front of the dorms.

Luke yanked on Anakin's hand. "X-Wing, Daddy!" he demanded.

"Very well," Anakin said, laying down on the ground. "Arms out," he said.

Giggling, Luke putting his arms out straight as Anakin balanced Luke over his head.

"Now the other part," Luke demanded, looking down at him and making starfighter noises.

Anakin grinned up at him, then reached into the Force and pushed Luke straight into the air, where he flew to just about level with the tree tops.

Luke shrieked with glee as he was safely caught. "AGAIN!"

[OOC: Open for anyone whose weetiny would be interested in the Jedi version of airplane.]

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[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

He made a rawwwr noise and lunged forward to try and grab her ankle. "I'm a pond monster and I'm going to catch you!"

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

"No, Karal, stop! I don't want to be a pond monster!" More squirming and wiggling.

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"You're not going to be a pond monster, you're going to be LUNCH for a pond monster!" And he pounced, careful not to actually catch her, making more roaring noises.

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

"Karal!" Inara scrambled out of the way, giggling. "I don't want to be lunch!"

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"But I'm a hungry pond monster," he said, trying not to laugh, but a few giggles escaped. "I have to have something for lunch!"

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

"You should be a vetrinarian!" She told him, still running, "You could eat leaves and pine cones!"

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"YUCK!" He lunged to his feet to chase after her, slowly, though, cause she was littler than him. "What's a veterinarian?"

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

"Someone who only eats their veggies," Inara explained, giggling more as she slipped on a patch of grass and landed on her butt.

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"That's silly," he decided. "Why would you only eat veggies?"

He crouched down next to her, peering at her worriedly. "Are you all right?"

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

"'cuz they don't want to eat kitties and doggies?"

She beamed up at him. "Uh huh. Are you?"

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"We only eat goats and sheep and pigs and cows and deer and rabbits and chickens and ducks and geese and, and a whole bunch of other animals. Kitties are for catching mice and rats and doggies are for guarding and herding and stuff."

Karal was looking very puzzled, and he plonked down next to her, idly picking duckweed off his shirt and dropping it in a pile in front of him. "Kitties and doggies work hard."

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

"That's a lot of animals you eat," she stared at him, wide-eyed.

She picked something green off of Karal's arm and added it to the pile. "They do. They must like doing it."

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"Well, I don't eat them all," he explained. "They're just some of what Cook's made at the inn. I usually have bread or oatmeal or soup or apples or cheese or sausage. Most of those animals are for rich people."

He plucked off a bit of duckweed, studied it, then grinned and tossed it at her.

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

Inara squealed as the duckweed landed on her arm, shaking it until it fell to the ground.

"G-ross, Karal!"

She grinned. "I'm gonna be a rich person someday. Mama said."

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

His eyes lit up, duckweed completely forgotten. "If you're going to be a rich person, maybe you could hire me to be your stableman! It'll be a long long long time before Da stops being the stableman at the Rising Sun, and I'm not going to be a stableboy for much longer, cause I'm seven already."

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

"Oooh, okay! You can bring your horsie." She felt this was very generous of her. "I'm not from this place, though, so we'd haveta go away."

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

He screwed up his face, thinking hard. "I'd be able to visit my Ma and my Da and sisters and brother?" he finally asked. "And bring Trenor?"

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

"Uhhhhh..." Inara had no idea, but she thought about this very hard, coiling a strand of hair around her fingers. "'course you can!"

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

Karal grinned and clapped his hands once. "Then I'll come with and be your stableman when you're rich and grown up! And I can teach you to ride Trenor, and it'll be really fun."

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

"Yaaaaaaaaaaaay!" She clapped her hands together, but didn't hug him because ewwwwww, slimy.

Then she sat quietly for about thirty seconds and peeked over at Karal.

"Think I'm grown up enough yet?"

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"Hmmmm. I don't know. Are you rich yet? You've got to be rich to have a stable."

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

"I dunno." She thought about that for a bit. "What's rich?"

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"Rich is," he stopped, chewing his lip, "rich is when you can have all the different sorts of food you want and the best horses and you can get people to work for you and tell lots of people what to do and the priests don't bother you, cause you've got lots of money to give them."

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

Inara frowned. "That doesn't sound like fun. I want to run and play and not have anyone tell me what to do. What's that? I want to be that."

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

"Umm." Karal chewed his lip some more, because this was hard. "Can't we do that now?" he finally asked, looking puzzled.