Tao of a Silly Old Bear, Monday, Period Two

[uncertain_dume]

Today, Kanan had sent a message to the students, stay in the dorms. He'd come to them. Hopefully nobody had any complaints about a workshop coopting the dorms rec room, because when it came to making his students navigate the fresh hell that was out there just so that he could chat about philosophy?

Ha. Kanan had put messy blaster holes in three splicers just getting from the radio station to here today. There was a long tear in his shirt and blood he was just casually ignoring. It wasn't worth it to expect the students to be out in that. Nope.

"This week's lesson was supposed to be about busybodies who don't take the time to stop and relax," he said, leaning against a wall, arms crossed over his chest, lightsaber actually assembled on his belt. "And if I figured that was at all relevant to what's going on out there, I'd even feel okay with teaching it. But this week we're going to just... have a discussion, I guess. Talk about when to run versus when to fight. Talk to your classmates - pick a buddy to travel with when you go outside. Even if you don't personally think you need someone to watch your back, think of it as having someone else whose back needs watching. How many of you are fighters? How many of you aren't? The wasteland was bad - the animals there were twisted and lethal. But here, the enemy is people. And people can be anywhere."

Kanan shrugged.

"If there are any essentials you need this week and you don't feel safe going outside, message me. I don't mind doing runs for food, weapons, or first aid supplies. I know we've just been coasting through the summer so far, wasteland being an exception for some, but it might be well past time to start treating these bouts of weekly weirdness as actual emergency situations, not just novel new experiences. So, what do you do to prep for an emergency that's already on you?"

Sorry, silly old bear. Maybe class would get back to discussing you next week. Adjusting his lesson to go with the flow that the universe had thrown at the island was in line with Taoism, too.

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Talk to Kanan!

[uncertain_dume]

He's fine! Probably. That blood might not even be his!

... It was his. Eh. He'd slap a bacta patch on that when he got home. The splicer got one free shot while he'd been reeling over the state of the island. There wouldn't be a second one.

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[unusual_sith]

"You're bleeding," Lana noted. "And around here, that's likely to get infected."

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[uncertain_dume]

"Yeah," Kanan sighed, "I know. I've got a medkit at home, I can hold out until then. It's fine."

Hera would swat him if he didn't take care of it when he got back, really.

"I've got a couple of bacta patches on me right now, but I'm saving those for emergencies."

... Apparently 'sickle to the ribcage' was not an emergency!

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[unusual_sith]

Okay, sure. Lana would take you at your word, Kanan. Presumably a Jedi would know if it were bad?

"If you say so. So what precisely are we looking at out there?"

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[uncertain_dume]

"Underwater city," a beat, "leaky underwater city, full of mutated psychopaths who'll carve a person open hoping to find stims or something."

So, you know. Soggy Nar Shaddaa. But with more wanton slaughter.

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[unusual_sith]

"How leaky?" That was Lana's real worry; psychopaths could be killed or avoided, with luck. The whole thing coming down around their ears, not so much.

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[uncertain_dume]

Kanan's answer to that was a grimace.

"Too leaky."

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[unusual_sith]

"Do we have any way of fixing it?" Lana asked. "I don't know about you, but I'm not amphibious."

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[uncertain_dume]

"Last I checked, neither was I," Kanan replied, shrugging. "But there's a lot out there to fix."

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[bookbeltof_love]

"Do you, like, want me to take care of that????????????" Nina asked, frowning at his whole bleeding-thing. "Honestly, Grumpy Bus Driver, it's been weird for, like, a few hours and you're hurt already?????????????"

Sure, she was chiding him, but she was also concerned.

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[uncertain_dume]

"Yeaah," Kanan sighed, smiling a little crookedly. "Lucky shot."

A beat.

"You have a medkit handy, though, I wouldn't say no to a bandage or something."

Kanan.

Kanan.

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[bookbeltof_love]

Nina was making a face at him.

"Bandages???????" Like, sure, if a huge battle or something hit, she'd use them; Nina couldn't heal everyone. "I was thinking more, like, magic if you're okay with that?????????????"

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[uncertain_dume]

"Uh." A beat. "Sure, that works, too."

Kanan shrugged, a little helplessly. He couldn't imagine a magical healing would be all that different from a healing through the Force, anyway.

"If it's no trouble."

KANAN.

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[bookbeltof_love]

Yeah. Nina's Look at that was... what the hell, Grumpy Bus Driver.

"Stay still," she ordered, as she held out one hand, the one that had the water rune embedded in it.

Her eyes went intent as her entire body went blue-lined, a circle the same glowing blue spreading out around her feet. The sound of water rippling echoed around her and above them, a droplet of water spun into existence, glowing, glittering blue spilling through the air to land down on him in a splash of sparkles, the phantom feel of water surrounding him, lingering for a few moments like an unexpected kiss, before sinking in and taking the pains, aches and hurts away, leaving healed flesh behind.

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[uncertain_dume]

... Okay, he'd been wrong. That had been very different from a Force healing. And so he was left standing there looking and feeling a little bit on the bemused side, glancing down at where the wound had been only a moment before.

He raised his arm experimentally. Twisted his torso. Pulled in a deep breath.

"Huh," he said, finally. "That's much better. Uh. Thank you, Nina."

And it'd definitely save him the bacta!

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[bookbeltof_love]

"You're welcome," she said, rather primly. "Try not to, like, get stabbed again after class, okay?????????????????"

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[uncertain_dume]

"Yeah," Kanan sighed. "Now that I know stabbing is something that's on the table, I'm going to be aiming to avoid more of it."

It wasn't actually something he enjoyed!

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[seriesofbaddecisions]

The others were better equipped to take care of things like injuries, but Sabine still had to check in. "What happened?"

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[uncertain_dume]

"Madman with a sickle decided he was going to try to carve my spleen out looking for drugs," Kanan sighed. "He missed."

And, you know, he would've been pretty disappointed anyway.

"There's... a lot going on out there. I let my guard down," because the state of the island had hit him right in the feelings in the worst possible way, "I won't be making that mistake again."

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[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Good. Did you say a sickle?"

Who used a sickle?

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[uncertain_dume]

"Yyyyup."

He popped that 'p' for good measure.

"I don't even know what the hell they'd do with a sickle down here. You know. Normally. When they're not angling for spleens."

Gardening?

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[seriesofbaddecisions]

"I'm guessing it's mostly just murder," Sabine frowned. "That'll be fun to see in the wild."

It would not!

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[uncertain_dume]

"Oh, yeah, plenty of murder in the wild today," Kanan agreed. "I know it goes without saying, but you'll want to be armed out there."

A beat.

"And take it easy with the explosives."

Another beat.

"And be extra careful where you're aiming."

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[seriesofbaddecisions]

She appreciated that he didn't try to tell her not to go.

"I will. I'm definitely not trying to drown us all," she assured him.

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[uncertain_dume]

Hey, Kanan knew that telling people to not go outside for an entire week around this place was going to be a losing battle.

Besides, he figured Sabine could handle it.

"That's what I figured," he replied, smiling wryly. "It's good to hear someone say as much, though."