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"You've had a whole day to recover from whatever trauma you might have encountered over the course of last week," Kanan said wryly. "So, welcome back to class."

A beat.

"One of the most important things to keep in mind about adaptability? Self-care. It's something I've been guilty of neglecting over the years myself. It's all too easy when your focus is going into survival to forget that you're a flesh-and-blood person with needs, both physical and emotional. So today, we're going to focus on that. Make a checklist of things to keep in mind about taking care of yourselves. And then run through it, each of you, to see if you've been doing those, yourself."

He turned around and wrote on the whiteboard - because yes, he was absolutely stealing Summer's 'danger shop classroom' program, in case he needed to conjure anything up today - Self-Care Checklist.

And then underlined it. Twice.

"We'll start with the basics for the survival of most living beings. Food. Water. Sleep. What else can you list off?"

A beat.

"And to help you with that first one, I've ordered pizza. Please, eat."

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"Yes, that's it exactly, Nina!" Sidon beamed brightly at her, glad that she could understand even though he felt like he hadn't done a terribly good job of explaining it. "Self-isolation is not self-care! Well, unless you rather need the alone time, in which case it can be very important, but if you isolate yourself too much, you run the risk of it not being good for you at all! I imagine there's a balance to be had with it, then. It's important to have some time to yourself, but also important to be with people who love and care for you, too! Especially if you're sad or upset. Sometimes, just having someone there who understands can make an incredible amount of difference!"

And Vette was being the best about the fact that Nina had basically clung to her like glue yesterday.

"And, like, even if someone being there can't fix anything it can, at least, make it seem a little less bad, whatever you're upset about....."

"Because no one," Sidon stated with a firm nod and another toothy grin of appreciation for Nina and her shared perspective on the mater, "should have to be alone, especially when they're upset!"

"Yeah," she said, smiling a little. "It doesn't always work out that way," and it never had, for her before coming here; Nina was used to having to be alone, "but if you don't have to be alone... I... I think that's better?????"

The doesn't always work out that way did sort of tug at his heart a little; Sidon had never been alone growing up. The Zora were a communal people, they even shared the same sleeping pond, but there had been times when he couldn't help being all-too-aware of the Mipha-shaped hole that had been left in their kingdom.

And any Zora who spent any significant time with Hylians (or various other non-Zora races and species as in Sidon's case) had to do so with coming to terms with the fact that there would almost always come a time when they would no longer be there, while the Zora would live on and on...

"I," said Sidon, throwing in a jovial wink of camaradie and agreement for Nina, "think that's much better, too!"

Make the most of being with the people you have while you still had them.

And Nina just… wasn't sure what to say to that. They agreed and, like, anything else she could come up with all seemed to lead back to either things about last week or things that she wasn't willing to talk about in the middle of class.

So she just smiled, again, softly, with a little nod.

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