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Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part III

Hopefully things weren't so awkward before. Maybe things ended up well. Maybe, just maybe, you ended up meeting someone special.

Or you took your shirt off because Layla Miller convinced you it was destiny. But she's a damn dirty liar and well know it.

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As if enough people hadn't made this mistake already, but now it was Leia's turn. She did a double-take as she happened by. "Master Kenobi?" she said, staring.

"... who?" Christian was confused, but not as confused as he had been when Ben stopped by. "I'm sorry. Is this about the -- Jedi thing? That isn't me, I'm afraid."

"You look exactly like him," Leia said. "You must've run into members of my family already if you know what a Jedi is. I'm Leia." She offered him her hand.

"Christian," Christian said, hesitating a second -- handshakes were mostly for men in his world -- but shaking the hand. "A pleasure to meet you. I only know a bit about what a Jedi is, really. I'd love to hear it from you."

This had almost nothing to do with the fact Leia was a pretty girl. Really.

"And I'd love to tell you," Leia said, smiling. Which had nothing to do with the fact that Christian looked like Obi-Wan Kenobi, swooooon. "Who have you talked to already, and what did they tell you?"

"Just the word and that you're from far away but some of you have my accent," Christian said vaguely ~~since the thread is still in progress~~. "I met a boy named Ben, if you know him?"

"Ben is my nephew," Leia said, nodding. "He's a Jedi, and so is my father, who's a teacher here. And Jaina and Tahiri, if you've met them yet." She left out the part about Jaina being her daughter for now, because there was only so much you could do to break someone's brain on the first day.

Christian shook his head; he hadn't met Jaina or Tahiri. "So what does being a Jedi mean?" he asked. "Is it a religion, or a country, or...?"

"Where I'm from, the Jedi are protectors of peace and justice," Leia said. Well, were and would be if all went well. "They're skilled in both diplomacy and defense. It's sort of a tradition in my family to be one."

"That sounds like an amazing family tradition," Christian said, more than a little jealous. "We don't have any of those. I'm trying to be the first artist in my family."

"I've studied a little about art," Leia said. "What sort of medium do you work in?"

"I," Christian said, a bit grandly, "am a poet."

"I'd love to hear some," Leia said. Not that she was terribly interested in poetry, but it gave her an excuse to stare at Christian.

"There's one that reminds me a bit of you, actually," Christian said, a bit nervously. "It goes --

Hey where did we go,
Days when the rains came
Down in the hollow,
Playin' a new game,
Laughing and a running hey, hey
Skipping and a jumping
In the misty morning fog with
Our hearts a thumpin' and you
My brown eyed girl,
You my brown eyed girl.

He gained volume as he kept talking; he didn't sing, but he was definitely chanting, by the end.

"That's lovely," Leia said, smiling. "Maybe I can inspire you to write more."

"It's a work in progress," Christian told her. "Maybe you'll help me perfect it."

"I'd be delighted," Leia said. "I've always been supportive of the arts. My home is famous for its poets and artists. There's a place in Alderaan called the Castle Lands where poets go for inspiration."

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