From the Roof of the MCA to the Moon! Thursday Afternoon

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Kanan was still kind of uncertain about how he'd wound up agreeing to this. But here he was, running systems checks on the Escape, the fish still sandwiched between two pillows, screaming out its muffled Sabotage refrain like that didn't particularly matter.

He had to admit, the idea of dumping it off on-or-at-least-near the moon was pretty appealing, though. The rest of it?

"You comfortable, there?"

Well, the rest of it was a bit awkward.

[OOC: For one!]

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"It's surprising how often it comes up with Padawans and children," Anakin admitted dryly before letting out a long breath as he looked out the front of the ship.

"This view never gets old," he said.

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Kanan could have stood up for the Padawans, there. After all, he still was one. Sort of. But with that view? Hell, he couldn't be bothered.

"Just gets better every time," he agreed.

Every day you lived to see this? That was a victory.

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"When I was a kid on Tatooine, I wanted to visit every star in the sky," Anakin admitted. "I haven't gotten close."

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"You'd need more than a few lifetimes for that one," Kanan noted, bringing his ship around and directing her toward the moon. "You'd think it would make you feel small, but I don't think I've ever had that problem."

Well. Once. But being blown out an airlock was a very different experience from sitting in a nice, pressure-controlled cockpit with a breatheable atmosphere and control of where you were going.

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Yeah, being trapped in the vastness of space and realizing exactly how little it cared about you was...sobering.

Not that Anakin had experienced that in a disabled TIE fighter after the Death Star exploded. Cough.

"I've always found it easier to connect to the Force when surrounded like this," he admitted instead.

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"I..." Kanan shot a sidelong glance toward Anakin, and then looked back out toward the moon in the distance. "... I wouldn't know, myself. I never really spent much time out here just... connecting."

Of course there had been ships to transport himself, Master Billaba, and the clones to their assignments during the war, but he'd never had this particular view. And once the war was over, he'd never had much interest in connecting with much of anything. Pushy as the Force was, he'd always worked at being that little bit pushier.

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Anakin shrugged. "Different places work for different people," he said. "Right, so when we get to the moon are we just airlocking the thing and hoping for the best?"

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Yeah, Kanan was going to leap on that out. It was all about the places and not at all about circumstance, really.

"That was the plan, yeah. It doesn't need to be on the moon to be out of our hair. I'm just as happy with it floating around space if you are."

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"Singing its terrible songs, probably," Anakin said, shuddering.

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"Yeah," Kanan agreed easily, "but in space. Where nobody has to hear it."

It was even going to get blown out of that airlock while still strapped in between two pillows. So there was going to be the double whammy of a pillow muffler and no atmosphere to keep that damn thing silent. It would be blissful.

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"And good riddance to it," Anakin said.

The fish will remember, Anakin. It will remember your betrayal.

Or something.

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Anakin... Anakin...

The fish knows.

Kanan grinned as they came up on the moon, falling easily into an orbit around it.

"Would you like to do the honors?"

Please, please do it. Eject the fish.