Questions

[echo_of_a_jedi]

Who: Meetra Surik and Open
Where: All around Hinoto-Ri
Summary: Meetra is trying to figure out the weather shenanigans, and generally failing
Warnings: Demons?
Hot, cold, hot, cold, hot, cold. The pattern was easy to see and impossible to explain. Today, particularly, it had been hot, and tonight, particularly, it was the New Moon. It was time, as far as Meetra was concerned, to go ask the demon population of the city now that she'd exhausted talking to the human civilians during the day and was fairly certain that none of her fellow guests had the slightest clue beyond this not being normal for this planet.

Meetra was trying several places. First and foremost, she asked demons around and throughout the city. Everyone had their ideas, but as the night went on, she seemed to get no closer to a clear answer, even from the elemental-themed fairies (though their opinions were the loudest). She also checked around the Mictlan (normal levels of government and weird mountain demon activity), with the night owls at the police station in Leo (above their pay grade), and anywhere else in the city that might know anything about the environment.

Barring some kind of divine or Force-based intervention, she was rather frustrated by the time the 13th Hour was approaching. Maybe she'd run into someone who'd know then, or maybe she'd just find someone to help against an aggressive demon. She did have her lightsaber with her.

Comments

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"I spent a lot of time moving between planets, so I don't think I ever developed a preference," she admitted. "Although jungle worlds are fairly awful in general."

[greatergone]

I've been to a jungle-like planet before also." And returned with a failed mission but, hey. "It wasn't a pleasant experience, though."

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"That would be the understatement of the year about Dxun."

She scowled. "Then again, it was pretty nice when I wasn't there with an army."

[greatergone]

"My own visit ended in a mission failure...and a delay on my combat experience." First mission was a flop, always ruinous to morale. And it gave him a severe lack of experience when he was deployed for actual combat.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"You had to fight, too? I'm sorry to hear that," she said.

[greatergone]

"Fighting is what I was born to do. I don't see why you need to apologize over that." A world without fighting would leave Kais very lost, that was for sure.

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"I just thought you'd have probably had a better time if you didn't have to worry about ambushes and minefields," she said. "Besides, how long have you been a soldier?"

[greatergone]

"I've always been a soldier." It definitely wasn't a choice. "All members of the Fire Caste must join the military after they are finished growing."

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"Mandatory conscription, huh?"

Well, it worked for some cultures.

"I guess you don't know what life as a civilian is even like."

[greatergone]

He shook his head.

"You misunderstand. It's not like your human concept of being forced to join an army. Those of our Caste are born into and spend their entire lives in the military."

[echo_of_a_jedi]

"So it's more like part of your species is just born into a specific role," she said, picking up on the 'your human' enough to be sure she was addressing an alien under all that armor. "I don't think I've met any sentients like that before, but it's a big universe."

[greatergone]

"That's how it has always been for us." Then again, not many races have been under some form of mind control for over 6000 years.