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Jinny sat on top of a pillow, because she was a bit too short to sit properly at the table. She listened without a word, to her new uncle talk about her choices. For a while, she just picked at her eggs, not at all hungry but knowing that for some reason, grown-ups always wanted her to finish her plate.

“Daddy said I was going to school this year.” She said softly, taking a sip of her milk. “He said it was very important that I go and learn things and make friends.” She had just left preschool that very summer. Slade would find that she was very well prepared for kindergarten, perhaps even one grade up. She could write, she could do math, she could read. Sort of, anyway.

“I don’t like reading. It makes my eyes hurt. But I like numbers. Numbers are fun!” She drank some of her milk and continued. “So if it’s very important, I would like to go to school.”

Now for option two. “I want to learn to be strong, too. I want to make sure no one can hurt me.” There was a blankness creeping into her eyes as she spoke. “Never, ever again. I don’t know if I can make big stuff fly, but I want to learn everything.” She stared at Slade across the table. “Everything.” Idly, she poked her fingertip with the tines of her fork. “I don’t want to hurt them.” Was it just yesterday that she had tried to stab him? “But if I have to, then I will hurt them.” Slade was right, there was a large part of Jinny’s childishness that had been erased.

“...maybe if I had been strong too, then...” But not all of it. Slow tears started to slip down the child’s face. “I could have helped, if I was strong.”

“Maybe things would have been different.” Or she would more likely have died right alongside her parents. Obviously though, she was convinced of the fact that her not being able to fight was the reason they were gone. Definitely a child’s reasoning.
Time: 4:58 PM, Monday
Location: Campus Commons
Interactions: June @Zoey Boey


Jin flinched away hard as the woman reached for their hand. They glared sharply upward, annoyed at that and being called small to their face. Jin was not small. Jin was petite. There was a difference. “No. No touching, please. I’m 14, not 6, I don’t need my hand held, thanks very much.” They lapsed into silence while following the older woman as they moved through the crowd. Finally, Jin’s curiosity got the better of them. Maybe asking some questions from someone who seemed like a veteran would get her some real answers.

“So, tell me about this place. What makes it tick? Why’s it so much better than everywhere else?” Jin was still skeptical. The woman who had taken Jin here in the first place had hyped up the school so much that Jin was having trouble accepting it. Usually, when things were touted as this good, it was too good to be true. So where was the scam?

“Why are you here?”
Wow, I did not know that message was there. ;_; sorry Kath. I'll try to think of a second customer.

Does Roxy fix motorcycles?
Devika listened to Roxy’s words, and tried to really absorb them. The most surprising thing she’d learned was that Roxy didn’t need the shop to support herself. That was odd. Maybe there was another source of money somewhere? But it wasn’t her business – she figured Roxy would not answer if she asked about it. Besides that, asking people about money was kind of rude.

“Cheeseburgers it is.”

She let Roxy lead the way up the stairs, and once they were both up she made a beeline for the kitchen. There she started pulling out ingredients. The hamburgers themselves were frozen, but everything else was fresh. Cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, onions, pickles. She pulled out a small cutting board and got to work. Soon the kitchen had the delicious scent of burgers flowing from it.
Go, sleep! Take your time. I have the opposite problem. They cut my hours, so I have spare time that I don't know what to do with.
Kijani watched as Adam reentered. It was very strange to think it, but the uniform made him look very good. She was suddenly very glad her face couldn’t be seen. Although, there was something just slightly off about the whole thing. While the others talked about the plan, or lack thereof, Kijani stood there, staring and wondering. It clicked after a few seconds.

“I know you’re attempting to be sarcastic, Mr. Solo, but that is exactly what we’re going to do. Walk like we own the place. Adam, on that front, you’ve got it wrong. You’re still moving like a wide-eyed farm boy. Let me see.” Her own voice sounded tinny and ridiculous inside the helmet, but she was going to take charge anyway.

She approached him, trying to move smoothly, and adjusted his posture. Shoulders back, hair out of the eyes, hat tilted just right. “Now, walk as if no one has the right to stop you. Walk like… well, like me.” She shrugged, knowing it was true. From birth she’d been raised to rule, and that came with certain traits. “Keep your expression smooth and focused. Don’t let your eyes wander too much, and maybe think of the stormtroopers as icky worms.” She paused a beat. “Not saying I think of others as worms, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a happy Imperial. Just saying.”

"Han, you already walk like you belong everywhere, so you're fine. Chewbacca, there's nothing I could tell you that would make you fit in, so you're also fine. Mr. Obi-Wan... what exactly are you going to be doing?" She really wanted an answer. Jedi or not, he seemed far too confident in this dire situation. Did he know something everyone else did not?
@tobiax It has been moved!


Time: 4:57 PM, Monday
Location: Campus Commons
Interactions: June @Zoey Boey


“Uh-” Jin said eloquently as their map was taken away by the older woman. To her surprise, it came back better than it was, looking like it was hot off the printer.

“Oh. Thanks.” That was an interesting ability. Jin wondered what it really was – some kind of matter manipulation? A small time rewind? Very interesting.

Realizing they couldn’t exactly give this woman an entire rundown of her like and the reason why she was having trouble with a simple map, she instead peered at it again, pointing at the building on the diagram. “Here. I’m going here.” The floor plan labeled it ‘auditorium’. Not the most difficult of words, but Jin still didn’t know what it was. “Can you maybe get me there?” Remembering at the last second to be polite, she added: “Please?”

They thought the school really should have had digital maps for a place this size. It would be simple enough – all they’d need was access to GPS, access to each individual phone location via a small app, and a very basic IU to point out ‘you are here’. With all the supposed geniuses in this place, they couldn’t come up with something a bit more accessible? Maybe they didn’t know how to think properly.

“This place is too big.” Jin muttered. “All the buildings look alike. There’s no character, no landmarks. Too easy to get lost.”
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