On the way to the preserve- Saturday morning

[thatwaslucky]

Rey was feeling much more herself today, and honestly couldn't be more relieved about it. Considering how much of her week had been spent hitting things and doing drills, she could have taken today off, but she was also maybe curious if she did remember the forms Kanan had showed her. And maybe she was still confused about his reaction to her yesterday and she wanted to test herself a little without anyone else around, so it was off to the preserve for a while with her staff on her back.

It might also be nice to enjoy some actual quiet after this week.


[For one!]

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[rat_in_a_ceyge]

Once she got to the preserve, there was a little boy standing there, like he was waiting for her.

Just... standing there.

[thatwaslucky]

Rey slowed to a stop once she spotted him, and while she wasn't prone to having bad feelings about this, she had a bad feeling about this.

"Hello. Are you lost?"

[rat_in_a_ceyge]

He frowned a little, and shook his head. "I was waiting for you."

[thatwaslucky]

Yep. Definitely a bad feeling about this!

"Waiting for me? Why?" she asked, trying not to show some kid that she was a little creeped out at the moment.

[rat_in_a_ceyge]

He was young, but very, very good at a "you're an idiot" eyeroll. "That isn't funny, Mother."

[thatwaslucky]

Ohhhhh no.

Luckily, while Rey had never been through this particular thing herself before, she'd been here long enough to know how to freak out. At least, not outwardly. So after about a half second of being stunned, she crouched down to be more at eye level with him. "I have to apologize, this town does some.... unexpected things sometimes. So please don't be insulted when I have to ask who you are."

Also, this kid said 'mother' in a really creepy way. Would it be less creepy if he went with 'mom'?

[rat_in_a_ceyge]

This wasn't funny, and he frowned, but went along with it. "I'm Reyge."

[thatwaslucky]

"Reyge?" she repeated. What the hell. She'd be more freaked out if she knew the spelling instead of assuming it was like the normal word.

But, she rallied. "Okay, so I'm sure you know about Fandom, and it's a bit weird, so I'm going to have a lot of questions."

A lot.

[rat_in_a_ceyge]

Reyge shook his head. "What's Fandom?"

[thatwaslucky]

Rey frowned. "I've never talked about Fandom?"

All right, so she got home at some point, right? She didn't understand why she wouldn't talk about a place she'd spent years in.

[rat_in_a_ceyge]

He was pretty thrown off by all this too, but he answered, "I wasn't with you until recently. You haven't talked about it."

[thatwaslucky]

"Where were you before?" she asked.

[rat_in_a_ceyge]

"With my father," Reyge answered.

[thatwaslucky]

Oh, Rey really did not want to ask this question.

"And, uh... who's that?"

[rat_in_a_ceyge]

It was a weird question to be asked, and he also didn't want to answer the obvious followup questions. "I don't want to talk about him."

[thatwaslucky]

"Okay," she said quickly, though, dammit. If he'd been with someone he didn't want to talk about until recently, she was more than a little worried about what that whole situation had been. "You don't have to."

And she had nothing.

"What do you want to do now?"

Sure, go with that.

[rat_in_a_ceyge]

"Weren't you going training?" he asked.

Was he relieved to not talk about other stuff now? Yep.

[thatwaslucky]

"I was," Rey said. "Did you want to... watch me?"

[rat_in_a_ceyge]

Reyge shrugged.

He was very helpful.

[thatwaslucky]

"All right," she said, still not feeling entirely comfortable with any of this. "Follow me."

She led him to a clearing in the woods that would give her enough room to move, and he stood there with his arms folded, watching her as she started what she remembered of the forms.

Of course, she wasn't getting them entirely right because she was slightly distracted by her kid watching her creepily. He went too long without blinking. It was unsettling.

[rat_in_a_ceyge]

Reyge watched her, totally aware that she was uncomfortable around him- that wasn't too much different than normal, though it was... more now. He was doing a lot of frowning, though.

"Why are you using that?" he finally asked.

[thatwaslucky]

Rey stopped, turning towards him. "What, this?" she asked, holding up her staff. "It's what I use."

It was all she'd ever used, really.

[rat_in_a_ceyge]

His frown deepened, and he didn't say anything.

[thatwaslucky]

...Okay, apparently that was his only question. So Rey took a breath, and started over, since there was no chance of her getting back into it in the middle.

[rat_in_a_ceyge]

And Reyge went back to watching. He was mentally critiquing her form, and she wasn't focusing so she was just a mess.

So after a while he demanded, "I want to try."

And then he remembered, and corrected that to, "Can I try?"