The gym [early evening]

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Ben certainly knew how to have fun on a Friday night: by kicking the crap out of a perfectly defenseless punching bag.

At least it was a productive outlet for anger?

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It was only then that Cal realized that astral was actually slang, and he grinned a little. "Prohibition era," he explained. "At one point, this country's government actually thought, 'hey, you know what would be cool? Let's make alcohol illegal.' Booze-running from Canada was huge around the Great Lakes, Detroit, Chicago."

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"Well, that was a stupid idea," Ben said with all the vehemence of a 14 year old.

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"Ohhh, yeah," Cal agreed. "Needless to say, it didn't last too long."

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"Can't imagine why. It's dumb to pass an unenforceable law," Ben said.

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"We've got a whole history of stupid laws in this country," Cal warned Ben. "It's really no wonder eventually we all start heading out to space."

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"Hate to break it to you, but the stupid follows us," Ben said.

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There was a bit of a pause.

"Not surprised," Cal admitted, shaking his head. "At all."

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"There's just a lot more space between us," Ben said, "so that's nice."

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"I'll bet," Cal said, a little quietly. "It's nice having a bit of stretching room from other stupid people."

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"There's even a tradition of Jedi turning into hermits, being alone on their own planet. I think after the amount of stupid they deal with, that option looks really, really appealing," Ben decided.

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"I ran away from home when I was fourteen and tried to be a hermit," Cal mused thoughtfully. "It didn't work very well. Eventually, I needed to eat something that wasn't an ice cream sundae."

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Ben laughed. "I don't think this counts as me running away from home," he said, "but if it does, the island seems to be providing me enough sugar to keep me happy for a while."

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"I've got to admit," Cal said. "I'm a little wary about eating sugar straight from the sky. Then again, I'm from a place where the snow could probably be considered toxic, so..."

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"I was thinking of using an umbrella today when I went out for hot chocolate, but I figured I'd probably get mocked," Ben admitted.

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Cal grinned a little. "That sounds very sensible, if anything."

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"I'm very sensible," Ben agreed. "Well, on most things."

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"We've all got something," Cal nodded, "that we kind of just lose our head over..."

For Cal, it was girls. It would always be girls.

And ice cream sundaes.

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Ben nodded his head at the punching bag. "Which is why I also have this," he said.