Kale/Atton // MM continuity // Kazic III.

[stuck_mynock]

"Okay," Atton says, holding the door open for Kale. "We're going to have to stay with my brother until I find us a place of our own. Shouldn't be more than a few days."

The door leads out onto a rectangular white room with a dozen tiers, and large windows looking out on a dark green landscape with a glowing purple sky.

There aren't any people around, currently. It's practically a ghost outpost.

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[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. And the planet evolved some of the most brutal predators ever. I was raised here, mind, so I ended up with a lot of first hand experience of horrifying predators growing up."

[hidden-jedi.livejournal.com]

"I got gored by cattle a few times. But mostly that was because I was being stupid. Garqui isn't that known for anything but farms." He pauses for a second as if thinking. "And ... yup. Farms."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"My childhood wasn't as exciting as it sounds. I was being raised to be a nerfherder."

[hidden-jedi.livejournal.com]

"I herded nerf. We had a small herd to nerfherd." Kale giggles at that. He's feeling silly. "And drove tractors. Lots of beans. We grew lots and lots of beans. All sorts of beans."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

Atton laughs, sliding an arm around Kale's waist.

"Well, nerfherding on Kazic is a little different. You have to graze in the warmer areas, which is where the big calorivores are likely to be - like Sweepers - and that draws predators, and then they try to eat your nerf. S'not good."

[hidden-jedi.livejournal.com]

"We just had nerf tippers." There is comfortable leaning. "And the occasional inspection by the Empire."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"Were they inspecting the farms or the farmboys?"

Atton is so innocent. So innocent.

[hidden-jedi.livejournal.com]

Kale elbows him. "They were inspecting everything. Looking for Force users and bad beans."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"See, now, I'd just inspect the farmboys. In detail, because there's no point being an inspector if you're not going to be thorough."

Atton is still very innocent.

[hidden-jedi.livejournal.com]

Innocent is returned with innocence. "If we little farm boys stayed around to be inspected we'd be sent off to the Empire to be turned into whatever it is the Emperor does to young handsome Force users."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"Now, that'd just be a waste."

[hidden-jedi.livejournal.com]

"Which is why we hid from the inspectors."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"S'considerate of you."

[hidden-jedi.livejournal.com]

"I liked living, personally." He reaches up to play with Atton's hair.

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

Atton leans down to give Kale slightly easier access, grinning.

"I'm fond of you living too."

[hidden-jedi.livejournal.com]

The hair is fondled.

"Where are we staying then, in this desolate place belonging to your brother? It's not the basement is it?"

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"He has pretty nice quarters, there's a spare room there. So yeah, we'll stay in his spare room while I arrange for us to get quarters of our own."

[hidden-jedi.livejournal.com]

Kale approves of this. "Good. I've had enough of basements."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"What, been living in a lot of basements of late?"

[hidden-jedi.livejournal.com]

"I spent two years living in Revan's basement."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"What, he didn't let you sleep in his room?"

[hidden-jedi.livejournal.com]

Kale shudders at the thought of it. "... I wouldn't even if he paid me."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

Atton arches an eyebrow.

"Okay then."

[hidden-jedi.livejournal.com]

"Let's talk about something else," he says.

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"But, but I'm curious."