The salle- Friday evening

[solo_sword]

So Jaina had talked to her mother today. No, not that one. Hers. She'd decided not to say anything as of yet. It wasn't so much that she thought she might take it badly; Leia knew what went on here, her husband, son and sister-in-law had all been here to see the crazy, and she took it all in stride. Honestly, she just wanted to have that conversation in person. Where she could have a picture of this Leia on her phone and show it to her mother all "I know what you were like."

Afterwards, she headed down to the salle, repaired remote in hand. Yes, she broke it the other day, shut up. She was better now. So was the remote, actually, now that she'd had a chance to improve on its basic design a little. Jaina set it up, unclipped her lightsaber from her belt, and was ready for the first shot, which came just a little faster than it used to.

Some people went out on Friday nights, she did this.


[So, I ditched out of getting dragged without warning to a wedding tonight by claiming to have plans. This post is hereby my plans. Ping in so I don't feel like a liar.]

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[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri, as it turned out, didn't remember anything past finally falling asleep sometime late Wednesday afternoon after she'd kicked the hangover, mostly because the next thing she remembered was coming out of the preserve earlier this afternoon. Two-day blackouts: not fun. At least she hadn't frozen out there, because that would have been seriously pathetic.

Anyway, that would be the reason she looked tired when she came in, her own lightsaber on her belt and a remote in hand.

"I'd say I'm surprised to find you here, but neither of us would believe it."

[solo_sword]

"Social lives are overrated," she said, deciding she'd had just enough of training for the moment to pause the remote. And once she'd gotten a look at her, she asked, "You okay?" In part for the tiredness, in part for the hangover.

[weetuskenraider]

"I am right now." Tahiri gave her a slight smile that probably didn't do much in the way of reassurance. "Finally remembering why I don't usually drink."

[solo_sword]

Jaina was sort of learning what that sort of smile meant. She'd seen it before. "I feel like I should apologize to you too for all the corruption."

[weetuskenraider]

That was an interesting choice of words, and Tahiri's expression turned a little uneasy, but with a little effort she turned it into a short laugh. "If that's going to happen, I'd rather it be you than anyone else."

[solo_sword]

This was where telling someone one thing and not another came back at you, because Jaina wasn't sure what the uneasy look was about for a moment until she remembered Oh right and figured that meant Tahiri had information Jaina hadn't known she had. See, this was why she wasn't deliberately keeping anything from Leia. Way too confusing.

"I meant to check in and see how you were doing," she said. "But I also figured if the aftermath was too bad, Ben would have been glaring at me."

[weetuskenraider]

It just kept getting more confusing, and that was before you factored in the fun internal stuff.

"Not as far as I can tell. My head was killing me for most of the next day," Tahiri admitted. "After that . . . well, I couldn't really tell you."

[solo_sword]

"Riina again?" she guessed. She knew it'd been getting worse, but.

[weetuskenraider]

"Again," Tahiri confirmed. She unhooked her lightsaber and turned it over in her hand, frowning, like she was halfway worried about her own reaction if she switched it on. "You'd think I was used to it by now."

Her jokes really weren't what they used to be, were they?

[momslilassassin]

Ben gave her a little mental nudge as he walked through the doorway. "Hey, you."

[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri responded with the mental equivalent of reaching out to catch his fingertips. "Hey, yourself."

[momslilassassin]

He came closer and looked at her carefully. "On a scale of knighting ceremony to Myrkr, where are you today?" he asked quietly.

[weetuskenraider]

"Yavin Four and the Peace Brigade," Tahiri said with only a brief hesitation; she'd gotten pretty good at ranking things according to this scale by now. "As of a few hours ago, anyway. Right now I feel more like I'm on the Errant Venture after that."

[momslilassassin]

Scales of one to ten were for normal people.

"Need a hug?" he asked.

[weetuskenraider]

And no one in the salle right now was normal.

"Yes," she replied immediately. "I'd like one, too."

[momslilassassin]

Ben reached out to hold her tightly, tamping down on the worry he was feeling.

[weetuskenraider]

I'm okay for now, Tahiri sent, wrapping her arms around him. Didn't mean to worry you.

She knew him well enough by now to know that he would. It was what he did. Skywalker.

[momslilassassin]

Ben still had energy to burn after his workout earlier in the day (for some reason, he was feeling unusually stressed this week), so he trotted down to the salle, his own remote in hand.

"Hi," he said, smiling.

[solo_sword]

"It's apparently the night for this," Jaina greeted him. "Jedi in the salle, who would have guessed."

[momslilassassin]

"It's better than levitating things off the roof?" he suggested with a smile.

[solo_sword]

"Too cold for that," she said easily. "How're you doing?"

[momslilassassin]

"I've had less confusing weeks," Ben admitted, "but my classes seem promising."

[solo_sword]

"Yeah, but I bet you didn't have to figure out how to make coffee in them," she teased. "What've you got this time, anyway?" Yes, she was curious which one had him trying to glare through Chuck's head.

[momslilassassin]

"That's because I already know how," Ben said, grinning, "which is why you must have missed me while you were talking to Rose."

He'd also been hidden behind a pile of parts when he'd taken the coffe machine apart to make it better. "I'm taking that one, the other law and order class, and the one with Master Ghanima."

[solo_sword]

"I'm going to claim a long week for that one," she said apologetically. "At least in one of them I know I can abuse my TA power on you."