The Stables [midmorning-onwards]

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Aravis had a horse. She knew there were several others who had horses, too -- she'd said good morning to those horses when she'd carefully gotten Trenor out -- but she felt hers was the best. Clearly.

So, Aravis, her pockets full of apples, was carefully walking Trenor around the yard, and had located a mounting block (plus there was a little bit of fencing she could climb up, if she needed) for later.

[ARAVIS WILL GIVE HORSIE RIDES. So, um, open. I go into heeeeeavy SP at 4 EST though.]

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"I wonder if I can make them float?" Tahiri mused, and shook her head. "I don't know if I can move anything that big yet. Why would you blow up the balloons? Poor floaty things!"

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Dinah gave her balloons a puzzled look, then turned it back to Tahiri. "You know. Huff puff puff," she blew out her cheeks. "And balloooooon! They kinda float by themselves, if there's wind," she confided. "One of 'em got away."

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"Oh, that kind of blowing them up!" Tahiri giggled. "I thought you meant you were shooting them with blasters or something!"

Tatooine was all desert and it was a very dreary and lonely place, so Tahiri had had a very active imagination as a child.

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Dinah giggled back, shaking her head. "Nooo! But Edward made one pop with his sword, and we kicked them around, and I made a force-field with one, see?" She held out one by itself and shook it back and forth really fast to make it all blurry. "Super-balloon!"

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"That's not a super-balloon, you're just moving it a lot," Tahiri declared.

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Dinah pouted at the bigger girl, and whispered loudly, "It could be a super-balloon!"

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"Okay, it could be," Tahiri conceded -- very graciously, she thought. "But what's so great about it that makes it a super-balloon?"

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"Ummmmmmm...." Well, now that Tahiri had pointed out the moving-fast thing, Dinah wasn't sure. She bit her lip, then brightened. "Mommy gots them for me, and Mommy works with magicians at the ca-sino. They could make 'em magic."

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"Magic?" Tahiri's eyes narrowed. "There's no such thing as magic."

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"He said that too!" Dinah said, pointing over at Ben. "But there is so. I saw it, they set fire to a box, and a man walked out of the box, and they made a lady disappear, and then she walked up the aisle, and they made rings flooooooat." Firmly, she said, "Magic!"

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"No such thing as magic," Tahiri maintained stubbornly. "Even if people think the Force is magic, it's not. I can make rings float, too! Or I will, someday."

She pouted a little. "Master Skywalker says we have to start with leaves first."

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Which distracted Dinah from 'is magic real' (is is is!) to, "Can you do magic? And wind floats leaves. It can't be hard. Can it?"

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Tahiri shook her head. "No, I can't do magic, 'cause it's not real!" she said, not stomping her bare you know, in case you forgot foot even though she wanted to. "But I can float leaves. I learned how to do that! Want to see?"

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"Pleeeeeeease?" Dinah asked, clasping her hands to beg. WHo cared what you called it? Floating things was coooool!

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"Okay," Tahiri said, "but I'm not very good at this yet."

She looked around and pointed at a convenient leaf lying on the ground, then shut her brilliant green eyes in concentration. The leaf wavered, wobbled, and slowly, slowly started to lift off the ground.

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Dinah squeaked. "You're doing it! It's floooooooating! Eeeeeee!" She flailed her hands in the air, jumping up and down. "Maaagic. Or Not-Magic!"

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"Shhhh," Tahiri said, frowning. The leaf rose a few inches off the ground, wobbled again, then fell. "There, see? And someday I'll be able to lift really big rocks, too, Tionne says."

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"Yay rocks!" Dinah twirled one way, then the other, and beamed at Tahiri. "Yay Tionne! An an an you can do that! That's so cooooooooooool. 'Cause you're kinda magic!"

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"I keep telling you it's not magic," Tahiri said, and now she did stomp one bare foot did you forget yet? You probably did.

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Dinah just giggled at that as did her mun, and stomped her foot back. "So! What is it then?" And easily distracted, she said, "You don't gots your shoes on."

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"I hate shoes," Tahiri said and now it was time for the obligatory backstory. "I don't ever wear them, not ever, unless I'm somewhere with lots of sharp prickly things on the ground, and even then I hate it. I grew up on Tatooine with the Sand People, and it was hot and there was sand everywhere and I couldn't ever go barefoot because I had to be wrapped up from head to toe all the time. And then Tionne and Master Luke came to find me and told me I was strong in the Force and I could be a Jedi someday, and I told them I'd go with them on the condition that I never had to wear those awful robes and shoes ever again. The temple is made of stone, and it's so nice and cool against my feet. This isn't Yavin Four, but it's lots nicer than the desert too."

And finally, miraculously, she ran out of breath and had to stop.

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Dinah solemnly listened to this, eyes wide, and tilted her head. "Not even for dress-up? Not even for snow? Not even for Christmas? And what's a temple and a Yavin?" She looked down at her own sneakers. "I like shoes."

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"It doesn't snow on Tatooine, silly, it's desert, I told you," Tahiri said with just a hint of impatience. A very large hint, which wasn't fair since she was obviously so much older than Dinah. "And it doesn't snow on Yavin Four, either. Planets like Hoth have snow all the time though. What's Christmas?"

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"Hunh." Dinah thought about that, 'cause it snowed in the mountains and they went there for snow, but not so much in Las Vegas. Snow all the time, ew, no Hoth! s"Christmas is present day! And Jesus's birthday. So we give presents to cel-cele--- be happy," Dinah said firmly.

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"You get presents for someone else's birthday?" Tahiri asked, her bright green eyes going wide again.