How Things Are

[Aela Talith]

[member="Kaili Talith"]

A few minutes later, about twenty or fifteen, Aela stepped back out of the garage.

The conversation she had with her mother turned out to be more than a little bit liberating, something that she'd needed for what felt like ages now. A weight had been lifted from her shoulders, the idea that she would have to stay in the New Jedi Order, that she was trapped...finally gone. A small smile lifted her face. She was pleased by all this, though a small piece of her remained somewhat remorseful. Telling everyone would be difficult, a few especially.

She wondered what they would think of her.

Her head slowly shook as she wandered back into the kitchen. "Find anything?"

Aela wasn't expecting much in all honesty, their parents had been gone for several weeks now, and while their Mother liked to keep everything nice and stocked...too much time had passed for anything good to actually still be intact, though perhaps they could scrounge some pasta up.

If not, maybe they'd have to go fishing.

 

[Kaili Talith]

[member="Aela Talith"]

“Well we have a whole load of conserved vegetables, beans, and Pasta.” Kaili moved a few of the items around for her sister to see more clearly. “Not sure about the meat though. Might have been in the freezer for a while and there is only really the one way to find out, right?”

Kaili sighed, grabbed a knife and cut through the protective packaging. A loud suction sound swept through the room and a foul smell filled her nostrils. It caused her throat to swell up as errant coughs parted her lips. Her hand moved up to cover it up. It was a fair assumption that the meat was not something that neither Talith wanted to put on a plate and eat.

Her hand swept away from her mouth and extended towards the piece of meat. She lifted it with the force, opened the door to the garbage collector and promptly closed once it had been deposited.

Cautious breaths until she knew the smell was gone. A deep one once she knew it was safe again.

“Ideas?”

 

[Aela Talith]

[member="Kaili Talith"]

She slowly shook her head.

Aela was not at all eager to go taste testing a bunch of meat that had been left behind in the freezer. For all they knew that stuff had been there since they'd both been children. Kira wasn't generally a 'hoarder' so to speak, but their mother did have a tendency to...well not be cheap, but conserve things for as long as she could. A result of her Jedi upbringing.

Silly really, considering how wealthy they were. "Let's go fishing."

Aela told her little sister.

"If you remember how to that is." She said the words with a smirk. "I know you don't get out much."

Nohei had a tendency of locking herself away in her workship, an odd sort of reversal from their childhood. Of course Nohei had a very good reason to lock herself away, she had a company to run, but that hardly mattered when you were engaging in friendly banter with your sibling.

 

[Kaili Talith]

[member="Aela Talith"]

How could someone forget how to fish? All you did was sit around with a wooden rod in your hand while waiting for something to happen. Kaili perked her brow at her sister and grinned at the joke made on her behalf. Aela wasn’t one of those people that Kaili ever really associated with jokes or quips, and in many ways it was a welcome change.

“Yeah, you know me, forgot aaaall about how to fish.” Kaili responded with the driest of voices that she could find within her. “All those years in the shop and I forgot how to sit still with a rod in my hand.”

She blew a quick raspberry and shook her head at her sister. “No, older sister, I am pretty sure I remember how to do that.”

Kaili looked over the table’s worth of ingredients and then her sister. There were a lot of conserved items, and each of them looked as good as the day that — from what Kaili would assume — their mother had harvested them. Or maybe that was to say that she had tried to harvest them? Either case there were jars filled with vegetables and Kaili was in no place to complain about it.

“Do you remember how to fish, Miss Fifth-Legion?” Kaili fired back with the same smirk as her sister.

 

[Aela Talith]

[member="Kaili Talith"]

"I do." Survival training and all that, plus there had been the week she'd been stranded with Adder, not to mention the trip to Dxun with Jamie.

Fishing had oddly become somewhat of a staple in her life, and she was rather glad her father had taught her how to do it from an early age. Of course, with the force there was a much easier and somewhat cheaper way to get it done. All one had to do was create a bubble of protection within the water, lift said water bubble, and boom trapped fish.

It was really simple, and also took most of the fun out of fishing.

"Come on." She motioned for Kaili. "Let's see what we can't catch."

The sun was slowly setting on the horizon meaning that some fish should at least be out in the shallow pools near the beach.

 

[Kaili Talith]

[member="Aela Talith"]

Well, what Kaili had said wasn’t all that far from the truth despite the attempt at making it seem like a joke. In reality she hadn’t fished in years, and chances were that Aela was well-aware of that. In fact, the smug grin on Kaili’s face quickly faded the second her sister turned the other way, and in its place she found herself staring in horror at the prospect of what she had just challenged her sister to. Out of all places and things she thought she could beat her sister in…

“Yeah, of course!” The girl held back an awkward chuckle and followed her sister outside.

The sunset reminded her of Kiara to a degree. The weather here was a bit warmer and the landscape less mountainous. Stepping up on the bridge with her ‘fishing stick-pole-thing’ Kaili looked at her sister with a smile to hide her inexperience.

She raised the stick for the sky, threw the bobber into the water and leaned back waiting for the fish to get to her.

… Without bait.

 

[Aela Talith]

[member="Kaili Talith"]

She glanced at her sister, bless her heart.

Nohei wasn't by any means stupid, but sometimes she could be a bit of an airhead. The elder sister frowned for a moment, then simply looked at the line that was slowly bobbing within the water. She very much doubted that Nohei would be catching any fish at all with that method, mostly because ocean fish were already hard enough to get to and a hook just randomly floating around didn't actually look all that appealing. Aela paused just a second more, then closed her eyes.

She let out a breath.

Then she slowly gathered the force to herself. It was a small amount, less than a trickle really. If Nohei noticed it she would likely just think Aela was sensing their surroundings for something, or anything, but in reality Aela was doing far more. Her thoughts extended out towards the ocean, a wide canvas that slowly looped around everything and anything. Her mind reached out, and then suddenly snapped forward on a single, innocent fish.

With a simple trick of her mind she compelled the creature to do one thing and one thing alone.

Bite.

Half a second later Noehi would feel a powerful tug on her fishing line.

 

[Kaili Talith]

Kaili was in the end a woman of science and the rapid expansion of droids as well as other artificial lifeforms. Her experience with animals and other lifeforms, such as fish, wasn’t as in-tune for her as it was with her siblings but she always liked to think that her aptitude with machinery more than made up for it. If anything she considered it the greater boon, really. She got to create things with her mind as well as steer them, she could build droids in the span it took the average man to merely draw one up. If that wasn’t fantastic then she had no idea what ‘fantastic’ even was.

But this wasn’t a situation in which droids and the knowledge of such things came in helpful. Kaili felt the tug on her line and got herself a firm grasp around her pole trying to quite simply tug whatever had bit towards her and for a moment it seemed as if she had succeeded. The line stopped jerking around for a second and the girl eased up to let her arms rest, but before she knew any better the fish started tugging again.

It was too quick for Kaili to quite realize what happened. One moment she was standing on her feet, the next she felt the air sweep through her hair before her front merged into what seemed to be water. Her grip on the pole loosened and she began flailing about trying to find a measure of control.

Her head popped up from the water’s surface. Her nose burned, her lips parted by coughs and deep inhales.

Kaili fired a sullen glance at Aela with a nasal, agitated ring to her voice.

“I hate fish.”

[member="Aela Talith"]