seriesofbaddecisions | The National Mall- Thursday

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The National Mall- Thursday

For the second week in a row, a Thursday with nothing to do had led Sabine and Lana out of town, though today they'd extended the invitation to a few other people.

You know. To go check out museums, like the nerds they were. And to hide in the air conditioning, because it was gross outside.

So it was off to DC for the day ~~handwavily around class times~~, with shirts available to wear that read "FANDOM COSTUME SOCIETY" to help the non-humans blend in. Would it work? Who knows!

[NFB for distance, and for those who know who they are, though if you happen to be in DC, feel free to stop in!]

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Lana was also here, curious about the particulars of how far they were.

And yes, wearing a costume society shirt with leggings and boots. If anybody tried staring at her, she was staring right back. They didn't seem to meet her eyes for long.

"The manned probe looks like a stiff wind would destroy it."

"I'm not opposed to finding out if it would it you're not," Vette chirped.

Because Vette was terrible. And just overall frustrated with this entire dumb planet.

"I'm not breaking museum exhibits just for curiosity," Lana said a little primly.

She looked sideways at Vette. "I'm not above seeing if it still flies, though."

She crossed her arms and covertly held a hand out toward the lunar lander, raising it a fraction of an inch.

Vette blinked, and stared at the thing as it lifted off the floor. She... she had never seen the Force in action like this, Lana's luggage notwithstanding, and it was a little mind-boggling to see it at work on something so much larger than a case containing laundry.

"That's the first impressive thing I've seen in here all day."

Lana shrugged. "Given the competition, that's damning with faint praise."

The lander flew a few more inches up.

A couple tourists on one side noticed, and started taking pictures.

It was actually taking all of her self-control for Vette to not just cackle in a weird mixture of nervous delight at the display.

"Hey, look," she said, grinning into a hushed whisper. "It really can fly."

And Lana was doing her best stoic act rather than snickering at either the lander or Vette's reaction. "Very impressive."

She set it slowly spinning.

Somewhere, an alarm went off.

"Oh, dear."

"Oooops," Vette said, still in that whisper. She was totally grinning, though. "Maybe we should not be here when security shows up?"

Since she sort of stood out in a crowd and all.

"It's not like they'll know what's going on," Lana pointed out. Still, she was moving the thing back to where it had started, as more tourists showed up to gawk and the footsteps of security could be heard.

And with all the people in the way, she was having a hard time seeing where she wanted to put it down, and gritted her teeth to avoid yelling at them to move!

"Come on come on," Vette hissed under her breath, "just drop the thing and let's go."

It was really hard to hold her lekku behind her like they were just cheap props when they wanted very much to get twitchy. Being grabbed by Earth security for messing with a piece of their stupid history was not on her list of things to do today.

... Then again, busting out of an Earth prison could be fun...

No. Not today.

"I can't just drop it!" Lana hissed in protest. "It's a relic!" A stupid bloody relic, but a relic all the same.

Which didn't mean she wasn't setting it down as quickly as she could, wincing a little at the thud, and making sure nobody noticed them.

It was a crappy relic, Lana! Take it from the relic hunter!

"Okay, now can we go? I kind of stand out, here."

And security was pretty much there, now.

"Come on," Lana agreed, backing away slowly for a few steps to make sure everybody was occupied with the lander. Plenty of people were still taking pictures of it, even now it wasn't doing anything remarkable.

And Vette was taking a couple of wary steps backwards as well, before turning to just straight-up walk away.

"Yeah, it got boring fast."

Once it stopped hovering, and all.

"That's one word for it," Lana agreed, amused. "Do you always leave when things get boring?"

"Only if I don't feel like livening them up again," Vette replied, shooting Lana a completely unapologetic grin. "Sometimes, the party just isn't worth the effort."

"As a Sith, I suppose I'm obliged to say a party is always worth the effort," Lana said, grinning back. "But I prefer parties that don't end in prison."

Vette tilted her head and considered that statement very carefully as they made their way ever so casually out of the museum.

"Depends on the prison."

And how easy it was to get out of it again.

Lana gave her a dubious look. "No matter how nice it is, wouldn't you rather not be in one?"

"Sure," Vette replied, shooting her a grin. "Getting out of it again is the best part."

Vette, you were insane. "And what if you can't get out?"

"Haven't been in one I couldn't get out of yet," Vette replied simply.

Well.

Not since she'd met Nok, anyway.

"Yet," Lana pointed out. "It only takes one."

"And that's why we're walking away from the angry people who are responding to the alarms," Vette replied, reasonably. "I enjoy the challenge once I'm already there. That doesn't mean I'm in any hurry to get in, you know."

"Good to know," Lana said. "I'd prefer to stay out myself." They stepped out of the museum and she made a face. "Ugh. At least Korriban wasn't so humid. What's the nearest other museum?" She pulled out the brochure she'd picked up. "Native American or Contemporary Art."

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