Objective: Chat up a sib; make a friend?
Wearing: xxx
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Phalsi Drynchen
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Gerwald Lechner
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He couldn't remember if his parents had ever taken him to Naboo, in the years they spent flying with the first Galactic Alliance, but life had a different speed, the culture a different way, than Corellia. Though he wasn't yet longing for the familiar streets, the comparisons couldn't be helped. Corellia had its elite, yes, but long gone were the times of monarchy; passing by some teens, much younger than him, he gathered a whiff of info about Naboo's elected royal - that she was a beauty, and that was all they said, with many more words, a contest of off-the-cuff poetry, a small representation of the artistic current that ran through Theed, nestled in the larger markets, where many more artists and merchants showed their wares. A plucking of strings set a light tone, a little further on from where he'd stopped at a shop of what would be traditionally feminine fashions, his thoughts turning to his mother, his sisters, fifteen-year-old Elsie in particular.
Hey, Els?
He took a step back, considering an ensemble he was more or less certain was her kinda thing, and snapped a pic. Almost immediately, a reply pinged.
what?
His brow knit. Had he done something...? His eyes shifted sideways, and he idly tapped the edge of his hand terminal in the other palm, coming up blank... oh, kriff, the time difference! Quickly, he tapped out a reply.
Sry, were ya sleepin?
He watched the screen, with not-quite-bated breath, until pending dots told him she was typing back.
ya... but I needa be up soon n e ways so what up?
Sry again...
He loaded the fresh picture into the convo.
What ya think?
The 'silence' was much longer this time. Looking up from the screen, he looked over and above the racks... and his eyes widened to the smallest degree. Wasn't that the Lord Commander? But then his eyes narrowed, at the partly-green head that just barely peeked over the rack near to the man, and it made him think of all the colours Elsie had dyed her hair ever since
forever. He shook his head, a near-silent sound of having been humoured not escaping his closed mouth. Kinda like Elsie. The terminal pinged.
mom?
Rik blinked, and took a long glance at the ensemble he'd snapped the photo of. Really? Mom? His brow furrowed again, deeper this time. Maybe.
Changed styles again?
He couldn't keep up with her, sometimes.
no... where r you?
Oh well. He shook his head with a small laugh, and began to wander away from the rack at the back of the shop, toward the front. For his part, he looked like he was ready to go to the beach, but he'd only recently been to one. The shirt was new.
Theed street markets
I think ya would like this
Another flat ping. And another. And another
miss u
maybe I can come next break?
visit n stuff?
He smiled, his thoughts quickly going to the consideration of if anything might get in the way of that, wandering back around to the text convo after a small handful of moments. The conversation between the Lord Commander and the partly-green-haired girl was sharper than it'd been back there.
pls?
Rik stopped in his tracks, and started typing again.
Will see, dunno what my schedule will be like, but... only if Kels can come too
Their second-youngest brother was old enough now to go places without their parents, in his opinion, but maybe that was a bit skewed by having been with the Jedi for so long? He'd been to a few places with his late master, starting around the time Kelly Trenton was just a baby. Rik shrugged.
ugh fine
gotta go
luv u
Love you too
He pocketed the terminal, and raked a hand through his hair, catching the options the green-haired girl gave as he came closer, not really intending to have an ear in the conversation at all, but it couldn't be helped. He himself didn't have any experience with treating a girl that wasn't family (school, piloting, jedi stuff kept him much, much too busy for most of his nineteen years), but he had two sisters and a mom and he knew enough from that, and some of his peers in the old Order were girls. He had a fair idea, in his opinion.
"Girls definitely like to eat," he interjected, after Phalsi's little rant wound down,
"At least all the ones I've met."
Maybe his knowledge was informed by being subjected to much hangryness, but that was his experience.