☾ Twenty-Sixth Sacrifice | Video

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[There's a contemplative look on Catty's face when she turns the feed on. She's alone on the beach at the moment, datapad resting on her knees. And yeah. She's wearing a bikini. :'| Enjoy the view, and a few of the scars from the torture.

Even though she has the feed on, she doesn't say anything at first, just sort of stares off at the water.

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[kjhklshf too much bare skin DO NOT LOOK. Luke doesn't care if he's seen more skin in the past week than in his whole life before - not like that, people on Tatooine just don't bare much - he averts his eyes.]

A whole year? Or almost, I mean?

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[YOU'RE GOING TO LIKE LOOKING ONE DAY, LUKE. IT'S JUST NATURE. But, Catty catches the eye averting and when she picks the datapad up, she makes sure to position it so that he's seeing mostly her face.]

Yeah, I've been here since... The first large influx of people, I guess.

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[HE KIND OF DOES ALREADY but it's really, really rude so he's glad she positions it right. Though... bare shoulders. Well that's not so bad and he keeps catching himself before it can turn into staring.]

- I [focus!] Huh. Was it different then? Was there a first Outworlder, telling people what happened, or did the Jedi do that...?

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[:'D Urge to... troll... growing...]

There were a few here, people who had been around months before we came.

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[She'd be in good company if she did.]

Are they still around? Maybe Revan wasn't as good at it then... I wonder if anyone remembers the moment of coming here. I was asleep.

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[She'll even wrap her hair up all specially.]

Lily and Draco are. Lois, too, if I remember right. I think it was just quieter back then.

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[That one bikini strap - not that he knows what they're called, to him they're basically is that even clothing aah don't look - is not centered, he realizes, which suddenly seems more important than the conversation. Luke's gaze wavers - and then he tries to stare right between her eyes.]

Yeah. Yeah, I bet so.

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[A slow smile creeps onto her face, and she absently toys with the strap.]

And then the war just sort of picked up with all of us arriving here all at once.

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[If his eyes had laser sights, they'd be boring into Catty's forehead over the datapad right now. Aaand down towards the motion - no no, Luke wants to be civilized and cultured and she is not an illicit holo and he always wonders if those girls in them were paid enough and if any of them were slaves and even Biggs thinks that's a stupid thing to wonder about but - back up, her eyebrows are fascinating, yes.]

Wh- [Deep breath, Luke.] Why would that happen?

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You okay over there? [Those fascinating eyebrows of her raise up in a mixture of curiosity and concern.

She leans forward a bit, not enough to show anything, of course, but still.] I... don't know. Maybe we've been thinking about Revan's motives all wrong? Maybe we are helping him win without knowing it.

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Fine. Totally fine.

[And eyes CLOSE. Haha, skirting the issue entirely! He kind of wants to ask why she's wearing that... or not wearing that, as the case may be, but that sounds all judgy and very farmboy. Lots of people wear very little, that's their thing. Not his place to comment.]

Like... well, I know Outworlders are kind of hard to miss. So... we could be distracting the Republic? Maybe?

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[Because it's a beach, Luke, and she needs a tan. Her skin is way too pale to continue going on like this. :'|]

That could be it, but we're helping the Republic more than distracting them. Except for the Crimson Terror... That was a distraction, but no. I think he's more meticulous than that. You don't just somehow defeat a war that nobody else could do by chance. [She chews on her lip for a second.] He's calculating.

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[It is also disrespectful to not look at people when talking to them, but for now he'll continue with closed eyes.]

I've heard a little about those... Maybe it's not even the Outworlders. Maybe there's some side thing - I mean, when I... if I actually did...

[Eyes open, but for the moment he's not distracted by the sexy, he's serious. ...And quite obviously skirting around something.]

It seems like calling someone here would be really tiring, but he's done it with a lot of people all at once, and there's more all the time. So if that's different, maybe somehow just the calling itself makes him stronger. I don't know.

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Maybe we're making him stronger. Like... I don't know. [She sounds completely frustrated with herself.] The Force is in everything, right? That's what Jacen and Anakin [She makes a face.] said, and so does the Order and pretty much any Jedi here. So what if the Force in us is making him more powerful? Can he do that? Use us?

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I don't know. I'm good at the Force, but would I know if someone was siphoning it off me? I didn't even know it was the Force until I got here and he told me. [Eyeroll.]

But anyone alive sort of changes the Force - you know? And people with Jedi power do it more. It's kind of a - I don't know. But it's... stirred. I don't get how anyone could use that for more than maybe knowing where someone's been, but...

He might. I don't know.

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Would anyone know if they were? Jeez, I need to figure out more about this. [Yeah! Mutual irritation with Anakin \o/]

Well, it's a theory anyway. I don't hear anyone else coming up with something better, and I really don't buy the crap that he's brought us here to just let us do what we want. He has to know we can tip the scales in this war, and it's not going to be in the favor of the Sith. [There is definite anger in her voice as she says that.]