En route to Bastion- Monday

[solo_sword]

If she was being really fair about it, Jaina knew that she'd had it surprisingly easy, considering everything she was juggling, and she'd taken it all on in a relatively short amount of time. It also had to be said that she had a lot of help and didn't do any of it alone.

Except when it came to her headstrong teenage padawan who didn't really have a sense of his own mortality yet. Since leaving Coruscant they'd been on the trail of at least some of the One Sith, had a couple skirmishes before they vanished, and there had been a few fights about how to handle oneself in a situation like this when your Master was terrifying in a fight and you were just still learning. At the moment he was probably sulking in the cabin he'd claimed on the ship they'd borrowed, and Jaina was in the pilot's seat, wondering if it'd be wrong to make the Imperial-based Darkmeld Jedi go drinking with her just to commiserate once she got home.

At least for now, she just sent a text. Sometimes I want to apologize for my teen years.

Which was not actually an apology.


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[sith_happened]

Apology accepted.

Anakin thought he was hilaaaarious.

[solo_sword]

Well now I'm definitely not apologizing, so there.

[sith_happened]

I wouldn't stick my tongue out at a comlink, that's undignified, but I'm closer to doing it than I'd normally admit, he replied.

[solo_sword]

Thats kind of how I feel in general today. But, undignifed.

[sith_happened]

What's making you think of your teenaged years? Anakin asked.

[solo_sword]

Apprentice with a death wish.

At least it was metaphorical.

[sith_happened]

Been there. Both as master and apprentice.

A beat.

Which is probably not helpful, huh.

[solo_sword]

How do you make it stop??? All the things Aunt Mara told me about being smarter aren't working here.

[sith_happened]

Generally speaking? A close call or a bacta bath. They have to learn on their own that they aren't invincible.</i

[solo_sword]

Did that already, right after I left Fandom last time. I'm starting to wonder if I'm not a terrible example to follow.

Because Jaina was a nightmare to face off against, and she didn't know how to stop for injuries anymore.

[sith_happened]

You are not a terrible example, Anakin wrote, then called to follow up.

"You are not a terrible example," he said.

[solo_sword]

"I do the stuff he thinks he can get away with," Jaina explained. "He's not thinking that it took several wars and Sith invasions to be able to get to this point, so why can't he do it if he just tried harder?"

[sith_happened]

"Arrogance of youth," Anakin said. "You make it look easy, so it must be easy."

[weetuskenraider]

It's all coming back to haunt us now, isn't it?

[solo_sword]

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Then, That hardly seems fair.

It totally was.

[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri chuckled at the first message, but waited until the second to respond.

I'm pretty sure we thought that at the time, too. Padawan trouble?

[solo_sword]

He's really good. But he thinks he's good enough to face off against Sith already, and he is not.

[weetuskenraider]

Boy, bet that's fun to see from the other side, huh? I'm sorry.

Tahiri was wincing a bit at that; she remembered what it was like when they'd been young and convinced they could handle anything.

At least it's not a really high pressure situation all the time, right?

[solo_sword]

It has been lately. I came back from Fandom and he'd run off chasing them.

You know, like they used to do!

[weetuskenraider]

Oh. Yikes. Yeah, that's bad. Did you find him at least?

And then a few seconds later:

The ONE Sith thing makes no sense by the way.

[solo_sword]

I did. And then I had to get him to a bacta tank, that was fun.

And, I have so many reasons to not like the One Sith thing. I hate it.

[weetuskenraider]

Is he sulking right now? I bet he's sulking.

Look, Tahiri had done plenty of that herself in the same situation. She could make a pretty educated guess.

[solo_sword]

Totally sulking. I'm not letting him prove himself, etc.

[weetuskenraider]

Just think of it this way: someday he'll be wondering if he should send a million apology presents to you, too.

Assuming he survived of course, but what was the point in mentioning that? The assumption came with the job.

[solo_sword]

Not if he gets himself killed first!

Jaina was thinking that constantly!