[Video]
[Locked against Anakin, no real reason.]
[The view is looking down into a box containing a spukamas - a creature with a size and shape not too unlike those of a housecat, though it distinctly is not - and her two blind, unfinished-looking young kits. She is briskly washing them with her pointed raspy tongue as they suckle at her belly, and purrs with each exhale. It can be hard to tell with an alien creature, but the spukamas looks thin and her black fur is sparse in places. She seems entirely oblivious to the conversation going on outside of the box.]
"Well we can't just leave them here. Something will eat them." [That's Luke's voice. It prompts a handful of other kids, all a little older-sounding than him, to pipe up.]
"We've already got a spukamas, they'd just fight." "I'd take them, but there's a 'no tankfree pets' policy and we'd be evicted." "Kee achunti rui ra na bess. Hepven." (My mother needs all our food for now. Rationing.) "My dad would kill me if I brought any animals home."
"...He would?"
[The others laugh.] "No, Luke, dads don't actually do that. Maybe out in the Rim, but here? I just mean he doesn't like pets."
[There's a pause, a slight tremble in the 'camera'.] "Guess I could take them. I don't have any of those problems."
"Lucky." [No response. After a couple more seconds, the feed shuts off.]
[The view is looking down into a box containing a spukamas - a creature with a size and shape not too unlike those of a housecat, though it distinctly is not - and her two blind, unfinished-looking young kits. She is briskly washing them with her pointed raspy tongue as they suckle at her belly, and purrs with each exhale. It can be hard to tell with an alien creature, but the spukamas looks thin and her black fur is sparse in places. She seems entirely oblivious to the conversation going on outside of the box.]
"Well we can't just leave them here. Something will eat them." [That's Luke's voice. It prompts a handful of other kids, all a little older-sounding than him, to pipe up.]
"We've already got a spukamas, they'd just fight." "I'd take them, but there's a 'no tankfree pets' policy and we'd be evicted." "Kee achunti rui ra na bess. Hepven." (My mother needs all our food for now. Rationing.) "My dad would kill me if I brought any animals home."
"...He would?"
[The others laugh.] "No, Luke, dads don't actually do that. Maybe out in the Rim, but here? I just mean he doesn't like pets."
[There's a pause, a slight tremble in the 'camera'.] "Guess I could take them. I don't have any of those problems."
"Lucky." [No response. After a couple more seconds, the feed shuts off.]