The Ghost- Tuesday morning

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The longer her time as a bird went on, the more time Sabine spent on the Ghost, trying to avoid the embarrassment of changing back in public. Besides, she had a good setup here, including kindly provided finger paints, which was why the floor of her room was now covered in brightly covered bird tracks. It'd started out as an accident, but then she'd decided to see what kinds of patterns she could make just by running around on her tiny feet, which had been surprisingly fun. It was probably a good thing she changed back before she decided to start experimenting with wing splatter.

She'd turned back during the night, waking up relieved and fully human again. She'd avoided all awkwardness this time and was able to just get dressed in privacy, which she was extremely grateful for. Which also reminded her that she should send another letter to Astrid now that she had hands again.

And then she opened the door and poked her head into the hall, calling, "Hello?"


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[uncertain_dume]

Kanan had been in the galley, not because he really had any need to be in the galley so much as every time he went toward the exit of the ship, a rift opened, threw him into a funhouse tunnel, and spat him out again somewhere down the other side of the Ghost's main hallway.

It was shaping up to be that kind of week already, but at least there was no stench.

And so he was nearby when Sabine called into the hall, peering his head out into it a moment later and offering her a smile.

"Hey, welcome back," he replied. "Did the room work out for you okay, there?"

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"It did. Thanks for that," she said, stepping fully out into the hall. And after a pause, added, "It's slightly more decorated now."

It looked better.

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"I didn't think for a second it wouldn't be, once I set those paints down in there," Kanan replied, smiling crookedly. "If Hera minds, I'll take the fall for it. And if she likes it, all the credit goes to the artist."

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"Thanks for that, too," Sabine smiled, and came over to join him. "Hera's been pretty open with what I can paint. And now that I'm the right height, it looks good."

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"That's right, you've been painting things in the scrapyard too, haven't you?" Kanan gave a thoughtful glance that way before nodding a little, shrugging, and gesturing back into the aforementioned galley. "You hungry at all? We've got nerf. And meilooruns. Can't leave home without meilooruns, Hera would go into withdrawls."

This probably wasn't accurate, but she did like the things.

"Birdseed and bread can't be that exciting."

... He hadn't wanted to feed Sabine worms. He suspected she might not mind, either.

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Sabine would have drawn the line at worms, yes. Hopefully. At any rate, she appreciated that now.?

"It's not exciting, and it's not filling when you're person-sized. I'm starving," she admitted.

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"Nerf and meiloorun it is, then," Kanan replied, ducking back into the galley and making his way over to retrieve the foods in question. "... Probably not in the same dish. That might be a level of adventurous above and beyond, there."

He pulled out a meiloorun and set it on the counter.

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She followed him there, asking, "Can I help with anything?"

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"Sure, if you want to cut the melon," Kanan said, gesturing toward a small selection of kitchen implements. "I'll get the nerf started. It won't be anything fancy, mind."

Hera wasn't much of a cook, and while Kanan could get fancy by comparison courtesy of a wealth of odd jobs, he'd been raised on 'functional,' too.

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"I was just eating birdseed," Sabine reminded him as she grabbed a knife to start cutting. "Let me tell you how much I don't need fancy."

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"Point made," Kanan chuckled, pulling out the nerf steaks and a couple of spices because he was feeling at least a little fancy, today. "I get a little bit like that after I spend time as a cat, too. Can't get my hands on some fruit or a vegetable fast enough."

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"I think last time I just ordered pizza," Sabine said. "You know, after I traumatized my roommate."

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"Awkward transformation back, huh? Been there."

Soooo awkward.

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"I was in my room. I should have been safe." She looked at him curiously. "What was yours?"

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"Middle of the park," Kanan replied. "With someone who is usually Hera but that weekend happened to be a Jedi Master from a few thousand years back."

There was a pause, and then he added with a grimace, "She chased me when I bolted."

Just to add to that awkward, right there.

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Sabine was definitely lowering her head a little to really focus on cutting the fruit and definitely not trying not to laugh.

"That's unfortunate."

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"And yet somehow I manage to keep getting talked out of the apartment every time I get stuck as a tooka," Kanan sighed. "You'd think I'd learn."

Kanan. That wasn't how cats worked. If they weren't supposed to be somewhere, that was exactly where they wanted to be.

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Hera, meanwhile, was in the corridor just off the cockpit, doing almost completely unnecessary maintenance just so she could be working on the Ghost.

"Hi, Sabine!" she called back. "Welcome back!"

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"It's good to be back," Sabine said, making her way over. "Thanks for letting me stay here."

The dorms were fine, but she had to admit it'd been all over better here this last week.

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"It's no problem at all," Hera assured her. "We were glad to help. Though if you decide you don't like your room's paint job, you're painting over it yourself," she added, grinning.

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There was maybe something about hearing it called her room and being told she could change it that gave Sabine a little case of the warm fuzzies, even if she didn't know what to do with that yet.

"There is slightly more paint in there than there was when I first got here," she said, and it was all Kanan's fault, "but it looks good."

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"I'll admit it was kind of fun to watch," Hera said. "I may have snuck a glance or two."

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"Oh, that's embarrassing," Sabine said.

But she'd been all cute! And tiny! And happily hopping around on tiny birdie feet!

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Hera laughed. "Sorry. It really looked like fun, though."

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"It kind of was," Sabine admitted. It'd be weird to do it as a human, though, she decided. "And at least one room here's got some very particular character to it."

It improved the whole (already great) ship, really.