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

The tables and chairs had been scattered around the lawn - some near the food, some not, some in the shade, some not - and the food was ready for anyone who wanted to come by and greet the new people.

Enjoy your last picnic where shirtlessness will be enjoyable until next summer, folks!

[OCD is up! This is the picnic post for general mingling. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are all here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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"You only get the books if you promise no hijacking unless it's an emergency," Hera said, firmly but amused. "I'll even take you up to see the system if you want, though there's not much there."

Vette leaned her head to the side, thinking that over.

"Define, 'emergency?'"

She was willing to haggle, here.

Hera thought about it. "You or someone else is in immediate danger of harm or death if you don't, and you don't have time to find the actual ship's owner. And you bring it right back."

Vette was totally pouting at you now, Hera.

Seriously.

"What if the person I'm taking the ship from is a total jerk?"

"...You still have to bring it back," Hera said. "And Kanan and I don't count - no stealing ours regardless."

"Well, if you say so," Vette replied, looking kind of resigned to that.

...

"What about other stuff?"

Look, she liked you, Hera, but if she had to keep her pinchy fingers from getting pinchy, she was going to go nuts.

"Like what?" Hera asked.

Vette shrugged.

"Interesting baubles, sparkly things," she ventured. "Anything you'd have to keep an eye on if you were to find yourself at a Kowakian monkey lizard breeders convention, maybe..."

"Monkey lizard fingers?" Hera teased. "Nothing else in the scrapyard you can't just pinch, though watch out for the little corral of things - they bite. And so does my droid. Anywhere else, that's other people's problem."

She felt a little bad for allowing it, but she couldn't look after everything.

Oh yeah, Vette perked right up at that.

"See, I knew you'd understand me," she declared. "Girls like us, we have to stick together."

Hera grinned. "You ever need anything from back home, let me know. I've been known to make runs occasionally."

She wasn't going to invite Vette on those yet, but hey, sometimes a girl needed caf. Or spiced mynock.

"Oh, and the diner in town has the best thing - ask for ghost pepper salsa."

"I'm so totally going to take you up on that," Vette informed her. "I have no idea what any of the food on those tables actually is."

And was starving half to death just staring at them, wondering if it was safe.

"... But I'll be sure to ask about the... salsa?"

"Oh, it's all edible," Hera assured her. "The burgers are pretty good." She pointed them out. "Like a sort of blander nerf on bread with vegetables and sauces. And they have a lot of sweet drinks with fizzy gas in them; those are good, too."

She thought about it. "The salsa is...it's sort of a dip, or a sauce? You can get it on things or just on its own with chips. It's spicier than most human food, though, and just a little sweet."

"Oh, that does sound good," Vette admitted. And then looked toward the table again. And then apologetically toward Hera. "Would you mind if we continued this conversation by the food? I haven't had a decent meal yet today."

In weeks. A decent meal in weeks.

Hera smiled and started over there. "Sure! There's always plenty at these things. Some people tend to put it away for later, too. And they have a lot of sweets. Seriously, I've never seen so many desserts in my life."

She got a plate and picked up a burger and some spicy chips for herself. "Where are you from? And...when? Has anybody warned you about that part yet?"

Vette grabbed a plate of her own, and was already piling it high with mystery food when Hera asked that question.

...

Which had her turning and giving her the weirdest look.

"Wait, when?"

Hera looked at her apologetically and spread her hands. "There's one girl here who I think is from a few years different from me. And a lady that was here a little while ago from about fifty years after. Those portals grab people from a lot of different times as well as worlds."

Vette was quiet for a few moments, and then offered, tentatively, "It's been twenty-six years since the Sacking of Coruscant?"

It was hard to come up with a better rubric of time than that, in her era. She hadn't been alive for it, but from the way the galaxy was now, it had changed everything.

"The sacking -" Hera blinked. "Okay, you're definitely from my future or far in the past, because it's never been sacked that I know of."

Her ancient history was a bit rusty.

"Back home it's year 25 after the Great ReSynchronization?" she offered.

"After the... what?"

Yeah, that one wasn't ringing any bells for Vette, either. She frowned a little.

"Maybe we can throw some pop culture around instead. Hello, My Name Is Vette, and my favorite popular cantina hit is Shapa Keesay? That sort of thing?"

"I haven't been great at keeping up with music," Hera said apologetically. "I prefer jizz, though." She sighed. "And don't mention that music to people around here; apparently that word means something entirely else."

"You know you can't say something like that and not tell a girl what that something entirely else actually is," Vette teased, grinning playfully. "Come on, spill."

Hera facepalmed. Then whispered into Vette's ear what it was.

And Vette, probably somewhat predictably... just burst into a fit of giggles.

Hera shook her head, laughing, too. "Isn't it the worst thing? I mean, who calls...never mind. Anyway, it's not at all the same thing."

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