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[forcechanic]

Look, I know there was a ton of family drama with messed up timelines to get through.

[This is quite possibly the understatement of the century to anyone who has had to deal with a Skywalker whether they know how many people are connected to that family or not. But the feed pans to a strange mass.]

But did everyone just forget to warn me that sometimes people just fall asleep and end up in a weird eye covered cocoon thing? Maybe before my brother wound up in one?

[She takes a deep breath. She should be in better control than this. She's a Jedi, Jedi are calm, not irritable]

I should meditate...

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[demonicbeauty]

[As much as Ariadne hates it, it's better to get out in front of the whole thing right away.]

I've met her. I can understand the confusion.

[forcechanic]

I only just met her here. I guess it... didn't click at first.

Is this just another weird SLeeper thing like little brothers getting older and taller?

[demonicbeauty]

I wish I knew.

[She sucks in air between her teeth.]

The truth of it is...this isn't even my natural state. It's all some sort of strange coincidence.

[forcechanic]

Squid related not your natural state or...

[You can never be sure here]

[demonicbeauty]

Uh, not the squid.

[She laughs, a little nervous.]

I'm an Alastrian. We're a demonoid species. I was just trained to look Human.

[forcechanic]

Okay, a shape shifter.

[These things happen]

And the face you settled on just happened to look like Grandmother?

[demonicbeauty]

Oh, no. I'm not a shape shifter, exactly. It's my face. Just...the the wrong color.

[She sighs.]

Here, let me show you.

[And she lets herself change.

It looks a little like heat rising off of a hot pavement, rippling and bending the air around her. Watercolor bleeds take over. And when the shimmer dies down, Airy's on screen as before, only different. Her skin is green as the underside of a maple leaf, hair blue like candy floss, and her lips lavender.]

This is me.

[forcechanic]

[It's certainly a striking combination]

That wouldn't even seem odd in my galaxy. But you decide to look human.

[demonicbeauty]

It's...odd in mine.

[She shrugs, self consciously pulling her braid over her shoulder, stroking it gently.]

[forcechanic]

Does that make things dangerous?

[She's disguising herself, after all.]

[demonicbeauty]

For me or for them?

It's mostly for me...

[forcechanic]

That's not fair.

[Okay, that's probably obvious]

I guess you know that though.

[demonicbeauty]

It's all right. People have just been told stories they don't understand are lies.

They can learn.