fandomhigh | Exploring Alien Cultures, Monday

The trip to Odessen was uneventful, but instead of the usual conference room, Lana led them to a staging area in front of hangars, off to one side so they were out of the way of the bustling beings of all sorts moving cargo and having spirited discussions.

A little being with glowing eyes, covered in a brown robe and with numerous weapons hanging off a belt came rushing up. He chattered at Lana excitedly.

"Yes, this is my class. Hylo is supposed to be speaking to us about Mirialans."

More chattering.

"What? No, I -"

He chattered and gesticulated widely, bouncing a little.

Lana sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose.

"Apparently Hylo was held up. Instead, Blizz will be speaking to us about being a jawa. And as I don't imagine any of you speak Jawaese, I'll translate."

Blizz perked up at that and scrabbled through his robes for a gadget, chattering as he made some adjustments to it.

"...work. See? Blizz do good!" came a tinny voice from the gadget.

Lana blinked. "So I see. That could be very useful."

"Blizz do many things for big boss. Big boss help Blizz, Blizz help big boss people. And now Blizz talk about Blizz!"

Lana waved at him to go on.

"Blizz is jawa," he explained to the students. "Jawa live mostly in big desert, but Blizz live all over in space! Even very cold place." He shivered. "Very cold wet place. But big boss need help, so now Blizz is here. Blizz start out as scavenger, like most jawa. Find pieces of things, sell pieces of things. But Blizz put things together, fix things. Learn more things. Fix entire clan's things! Make stupid roto-hammer for stupid Jreely. Make translator without droid attached." He waved at his device. "Less whiny."

Lana hid a laugh in a cough. "Tell them more about your people, Blizz."

Blizz shrugged. "Live in clans. Clan chief lead sandcrawler, Shaman lead fortress. Other jawa travel. Travel desert mostly, or other places. White cold place. Blizz make hot socks for Nu'na. Nu'na's feet always cold."

"Yes, thank you, Blizz," Lana cut him off before he could go on another tangent. "Does anybody have any questions?"