Milliways, Sunday Evening

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Kanan was actually getting used to living on the island and getting his fill of excitement by leaving to explore whatever was on the other side of the Causeway, and he couldn't help but be curious of the place with the spaceport lot that went on for damn near forever. It had taken him a little bit longer before he realized that the bill for the restaurant was already handled. And, well, when he came to that realization, there wasn't anything keeping him from visiting to have himself a meal on the school's tab, was there? So, over he went, curious but relieved to see another stopover where the locals were more diverse than just humans. A place with very little sentient non-human life just struck him as wrong.

It kind of freaked him out a little.

... Not as much as the conversation with the main course did, though. He was actually looking a little green by the time they wheeled the somewhat dejected creature away from the table. There had been a salad on the menu. Kanan was going to stick with that. It would be a while longer before he managed to pick something to drink, though. He was pretty sure they were using the other two volumes of the wine list to bludgeon somebody's casserole to death in the back room or something.

[OOC: I can't resist a good gnab gib. Open if you're wandering about at the end of the universe! NFB for off-islandness, though.]

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HE WAS ALLOWED TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT THESE THINGS.

Just be glad he'd moved on from making incoherent high pitched noises of horror. "You're all heart."

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"Now there's something I don't get told often," Kanan chuckled. "I'm guessing you don't see much food that's still moving around where you're from, hm?"

Look, just because he didn't want to have a conversation with something before he ate it didn't mean he couldn't appreciate that some people ate things that were maybe still squirming. It happened.

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"I've gotten used to military rations." Which meant he could eat anything and his tastebuds were dead. "Which move much less than that."

Unless something went terribly wrong.

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"Ah, another fan of already dead food," Kanan chuckled. "I can appreciate that. Rations aren't exactly made for their gourmet value, are they?"

A beat.

"Most food that hasn't stopped struggling yet isn't, either."

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"The closest I'll take is sushi, thanks." Which had been the best thing he'd found on the island after so long in space. "Have you been to the place? It goes around on a conveyor belt."

He almost sounded younger when he mentioned that last part.

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"You know, I haven't been, yet? You'll have to show me where the place is, sometime."

Kanan caught that change in his tone, like a little hint of something that didn't come out often. He couldn't help but quirk a smile.

"I don't think I've ever had sushi from a conveyor belt, before. It'll be a new experience."

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"A better one than this place." His judgement would never stop. Never.

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"You won't get any argument from me there," Kanan decided. "This place is clearly popular, but it looks like they cater to a decidedly less human crowd."

Maybe he should be reserving judgment until his salad arrived, but honestly, he was still a bit shaken by that sentient cow.

[worstofalltime.livejournal.com]

If the salad talked, it was time to run.

"I'm almost surprised there's anything edible for us here." A beat. "Is there?"

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"I've been assured there is," Kanan chuckled, "but at this rate, I'll probably be stopping somewhere for something less worrisome to eat when I'm finished here. Honestly, I'm mostly still here for the ambiance, at this point."

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"Not settling in?"

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"Settling in well enough," Kanan replied, "but it's still a bit to adjust to, being in a settlement with next to no non-human sentient life on it. I'm used to more diversity. And spaceships. Illium was a welcome pit-stop, too."

And if he was being completely honest, the troopers at the station kind of freaked him out, too.

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"I only visited there once." And noped on out because he got all kinds of paranoia for some strange reason. "It wasn't terrible."

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"Either way, it's behind us now, and what we've got is... this place."

Whatever this place was.

"Hopefully we aren't here too long. The idea of just being parked here while the universe ends leaves me a bit uneasy. You know, for some reason."

[worstofalltime.livejournal.com]

"Not a fan of staring into the void and contemplating your own insignificance?" Wash asked like that was sooo strange.

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Wondering why they were here?

"Not these days, no," Kanan agreed. "I have better things to do than spend a few days slipping into an existential crisis."

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"Well, you picked a good island to keep distracted. Wait until you wake up as a woman."

WHICH HAD BEEN AWFUL.

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"You say that like I actually picked," Kanan snorted. "Really can't say I'm looking forward to the woman thing, by the way."

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"Better than the weekend everyone ended up with children." Which Wash had hidden away from with his cats.

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That seemed like the best possible option, right there.

"... So help me, I better not find myself suddenly a father. There is no way that could possibly end well."