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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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Not surprising, since by Sabine's time they were legends (ha).

She nodded. "I don't know much about Mandalore, either, apart from the obvious." That it was home to Mandalorians. "What brings you here?"

"A series of portals gone wrong," she said, kind of half sighing. She shrugged, though. "If I was going to get stuck anywhere, it could be worse. Did you come here on purpose?"

"Mm." Lana nodded. "I understood this place was strange and might have interesting things to learn, so I jumped at the chance."

"That's a choice," Sabine said, though she didn't think that was necessarily a bad thing. "It'll definitely throw you for some loops, but there is a lot to learn. As long as you don't expect anything resembling normal classes or... normal anything else."

"I have no idea what to expect from classes," Lana expected. "One of them is about charity?" She shook her head. Actually teaching doing things for other people? Novel! "What else might be odd around here?"

"We spent the summer at weekly competitions to lose a singing fish that came alive and turned giant and evil a couple weeks ago, and I think we beat it by finally appreciating it."

Yep.

"...Well, I can certainly see why you'd want to lose it."

Hey, she'd spent way too long in Sith ruins. Some of those artifacts were weird.

Okay, this didn't sound exactly normal, either, but... "How often does the school try to kill you?" If the answer was less than 'every day', it was still a step up.

"Only once so far, but I've only been here a few months," Sabine admitted. "I don't know that it was the school trying to kill us, though, considering how surprised the teachers seemed."

"Well, that's still an improvement over the Academy," Lana said wryly. "But I'll know not to let my combat skills get rusty."

Okay, now Sabine was a little cautious. "What Academy?"

"Korriban," Lana said, calmly but with no little pride. Then she laughed a bit ruefully. "Very prestigious, very good at weeding out the weak."

Killing them. The overseers were very good at killing them.

And here Sabine had thought the Imperial Academy was bad.

"That sounds-" Insane. "-intense. But I can promise the life and death situations have got to be at least a quarterly event."

It really was. There was a reason the Empire hadn't yet overrun the Republic with sheer numbers of Force sensitives.

"I imagine I can handle that." If she couldn't, she wouldn't; there was nothing more to be said. "I'll do my best, anyway." Which brought up another thought. "Are there places around here to train, do you know?"

"Depends on what you're looking for, but yeah. What kind of training?" she asked.

"Lightsaber, mostly," Lana answered. "Are there training dummies or remotes anywhere?"

If Kanan hadn't had the reaction to Sabine's arrival that he did, she might've namedropped him. But that wasn't her thing to tell.

"Not sure about remotes but I know there are training dummies in the salle in the dorms," she said, eyeing her. "So you're a Jedi?"

Lana gave her an odd look back. "Nooo, I'm Sith, of course. Do you know many Jedi from Dromund Kaas?"

She supposed there could be one or two, but honestly.

"No, but I don't know any Sith, either." Or any. And she'd maybe never heard the word before. "Here's a question you might not have gotten before today: when are you from?"

Lana blinked. No, she hadn't gotten that question yet. "Three years after the Treaty of Coruscant. Why?"

Oh, she had not expected that answer. "Fandom attracts people from all sorts of different places and worlds, but also different times. For instance, I'm not sure what that is." So at least it wasn't current for her.

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"Different times?" Lana shook her head. "I'm not sure why that seems any more odd than the rest of it, but it really does! When are you from, then?" She was curious if she'd even recognize whatever calendar Sabine used.

"About twelve years after the end of the Clone Wars," she said, watching for the reaction.

~~Be a lot easier if they'd just use real years but nooooo.~~

~~That would make too much sense.~~

"I have no idea what those are, either," Lana said, frustrated. "Damn. So it's entirely possible you're from far into the future or past of the same galaxy?"

That was...so odd.

"Seems like. You get used to that kind of thing being possible, though this is a personal first for me," Sabine admitted.

"I hadn't been warned about that possibility," Lana confessed. "What else have I likely not been warned about?" It was half question and half rhetorical.

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