Meet-n-Greet

[cityship]

After being released from stasis, having the slime removed from their bodies and clothed in the creepy, pulsing leaf-suit that everyone wore, and being taken to the Weapons & Possessions lockers to collect their belongings, the new arrivals would find themselves standing in the Observation Deck. Round windows lined the fleshy walls, revealing the bright display of lights that was inter-dimensional travel. They would also discover that there were people--members of the command staff and crew that had woken earlier--waiting for them.

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[reaverkiller.livejournal.com]

River felt a mind touch her's and her eyes shot up to drill intently into Luke's. She wasn't used to other people being able to do that, and the curiosity once focused on Luke's lightsaber was now focused quite squarely on Luke.

[restoresbalance.livejournal.com]

He felt that focus, and its intensity surprised him. Again he was reminded of Alema, but a goodly Alema who wasn't broken from being Joined. He smiled at the girl whose head had snapped up and locked eyes, wondering if she was some kind of weak Force-sensitive. With everything else he'd seen and experienced in the last couple hours, it wouldn't be the most surprising thing here.

[reaverkiller.livejournal.com]

River wants to delve into Luke's mind and find out all about him, a natural curiosity paired with an enhanced talent that satiates curiosity all too easily. But she's cautious too, and she knows it probably isn't a good idea to go poking around in heads that can poke back. So she sticks to the surface, open to reading thoughts and intentions that he projects, but going no deeper. If she wants more, she'll have to settle for old fashioned conversation.

"Who are you?" Seems a good place to start.

[restoresbalance.livejournal.com]

"I'm Luke Skywalker," he responded, calm as an Jedi Master would be at encountering new talent. Something about this girl told him she was beyond normal people of her age. "Who are you?"

[reaverkiller.livejournal.com]

"River Tam." She responds politely, but his name doesn't really tell her what she wants to know. She can tell he has no ill intentions, but she has no idea...

"What are you?" Yes, that was the question she was looking for.

[restoresbalance.livejournal.com]

Luke smiled--no nonsense, this River. "I'm a Jedi, River." He paused a moment. "Do you know what a Jedi is?" After all the people he'd met today it wasn't an unsafe question to ask.

[reaverkiller.livejournal.com]

River shakes her head in the negative.

"No. It sounds like a kind of cheese."

[restoresbalance.livejournal.com]

Luke snorted, his cybernetic hand coming up to sweep across a merry grin. "Well, we're not cheese. We can touch the Force--it's a power that comes from all living things, connects them together. Jedi draw their strength from it."

[reaverkiller.livejournal.com]

River gets a sense, as he talks, of what he means. It's one of those thoughts - impressions - on the surface of his mind, there for any to see who know how to look. It seems vaguely familiar to her, like deja vu.

"What do you do with it?"

[restoresbalance.livejournal.com]

"Well, lots of things. Telekinesis, telepathy... the Force surrounds us and guides us, if we listen." He paused and tilted his head. "Do you see?"