Baltimore- Wednesday afternoon

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The summer had meant that the island was hopping around from hellscape to Mario to hellscape again, which meant opportunities to explore beyond the island had been limited if you didn't want to chance a murder. Now that things were normal again, Sabine and Lana decided to make a trip over to the mainland.

To a museum and library, because of course.

"I'm a little worried I'm going to have to drag you out of here at closing," Sabine said, only really half-teasing, as they walked up to the building.


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"I'm a little worried you'll hide in one of the collections and we'll miss closing," Lana teased back.

"Oh, this is lovely. Very...Earth, but nice."

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"So when you say it's very Earth..." Sabine prodded, smiling a little.

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"All the swirls and things on the edges," Lana explained. "The frames in the windows. Very fancy, not like anything back home. What about when you're from?"

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"You have to know getting me started on Mandalorian architecture is dangerous," Sabine warned. It would not stop with swirls on edges.

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Lana laughed. "No, please! I'd love to know. Empire architecture is fairly minimalist, really. Let me live vicariously."

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"What I'm used to personally is pretty minimalist, steel and concrete, but you have to know what to look for," Sabine said, before launching into details about things blending into surroundings and acting as camouflage, and the little details that really stood out in the right lighting.

Which was the most Sabine had ever talked about home.

If not stopped, she would go into the history of those features.

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Lana, meanwhile, knew very little about architecture, but it sounded fascinating, and she was happy just to listen to Sabine talk.

"You seem like you'd favour the details that stand out," she said with a smile.

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"What can I say, I like those kinds of surprises," Sabine said lightly. "Some of the best art is the stuff that you only catch the third time around."

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"Sith art tends to be fairly in-your-face," Lana said. "But the interesting pieces have meanings you only see if you study them. Not that I've had much time to focus on art. I'm afraid I'm at a place of 'I have no idea what it says, but I can tell you if I like it'."

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"Nothing wrong with that. The important thing is you see it," Sabine reasoned. "Besides, you've got plenty of other stuff to do. What have you been focusing on lately?"

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"I spent most of my last library shift reading about movies, so I could understand something Wayne said," Lana confessed with a wry smile. "Other than that, I've been trying to find any information I can about how Fandom actually works. Especially after this summer, it'd be good to know."

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"That's true," Sabine agreed. "I wouldn't be surprised if there are several editions of books on that, or one that's filled with scratch-outs and additions."

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"So far I've found a lot of theory, but not much concrete," Lana said. "I'm spending a lot of time trying to weed out what might actually be helpful.

"What about you? I heard Summer asked you to paint her ship?"

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"Yeah. It's going to be least stealthy ship ever-" At least until Sabine got her hands on a TIE. "-but that's fine by me. It sounds like she doesn't want me to finish up too fast, though, so I think I have to drag my feet a little."

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"Getting cold feet about leaving?" Lana guessed. "Will you take holos of the ship? I'd love to see what you come up with."

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"Of course. I document all of my fu usher work whenever I'm able," Sabine told her, more than happy to share. "...It's a lot by now."

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"I'd love to see it all," Lana said, smiling. "You should put on a show! Set up in the common room and show holos of your work all night."

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Okay, the thought of that did make Sabine happy.

"I'm not sure I have anything cohesive enough for a show, besides my own walls," she said thoughtfully. "Once I get some more creative explosions, though..."

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"Does it have to be more cohesive than 'everything is by Sabine'?" Lana asked. "No, wait - you'd want to make the show itself art, too, wouldn't you?"

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Got it in one! "I mean, I'd need to really say something with it."

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"Other than that you're talented and paint and explosions are fun?" Lana grinned. "I'll leave that to you. But I do hope we get to see it soon."

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"See, you know art enough to know what talent is," Sabine teased. "Even if I don't get a show up soon I have no problem showing you some of it. Aside from what's... everywhere."

Sabine will have painted the whole town by graduation.

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Life goals!

"I'd like that," Lana said, smiling.

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"And now we have incentive to actually leave here on purpose later," Sabine decided.

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Lana laughed. "I guess we do. So no getting lost for either of us."