Canin adopts a Jamie
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"Can she walk, or do you gotta go with her?" Jamis asks from over by the food, "Or could I?" 

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"Well, first she needs to stand up- I suspect she hasn't walked in a while, so her legs may be a bit weak from disuse."

He turns back to Aleeka.

"Go ahead and stand up now.  I'll walk you to the 'fresher, but if it seems like you're walking alright I'm not gonna make you have someone in there with you."

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An attempt at standing up is made, but Aleeka's legs prove to be too wobbly to hold even the weight of an underfed eight-year-old for long, a combination of the extended time she'd spent drugged and the drugs still affecting her, likely.

She consents to be carried and helped in the bathroom, with some disgruntlement.

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He picks her up carefully, and carries her to the bathroom, then calls Jamis in to help her, stepping out and facing away, but not closing the door.

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Bathroom features are put to use behind his back, and then they can take Aleeka back to the medbay.

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"I want to eat something," Aleeka says once they're all back, "But I might be sick."

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"You can try drinking some more of the water with hydration mix and wait to see if that makes you sick, or you can start eating slowly, while drinking water with it, and stop if you get sick.  I do have some anti-nausea drugs, if you'd like, but taking those before eating isn't always a good idea.  It can cause worse side effects, if the food is causing an actual problem."

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"Jamis gave me some water with the mix-in after I woke up. It hasn't made me feel worse." She pauses, glancing at Jamis uncertainly, and then adds, "I can filter what I eat some. Master Scinna taught us before... If I eat only a very little bit I can tell if it will make me sick." Actual Jedi Padawans and Knights can actually eat some things that will make them sick, and get all the nutrients out of it that they can use. Aleeka can only check and then spit it out.

(Actual Jedi can filter drugs out of their bodies, too, but Aleeka hadn't thought she'd need to know that and neither had any of her masters.)

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He hands her a bowl of soup- a thin broth with chunks of rehydrated meat and vegetables in it.

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She- lifts the bowl to her lips to take a small sip, rather than attempting to use a spoon. After a moment of inward-looking, her eyes going a little more unfocused as she analyzes, she takes a larger, less careful sip, a little soup dribbling out of the side of her lips. She licks it off, and then sets the bowl down.

"I think. The solids will make me sick. The broth won't, but I suppose I should just drink more water instead of wasting the meat and vegetables in the soup." 

She looks disheartened by this. 

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"I'll eat them," Jamis offers immediately, "You can have the broth, it's okay." 

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Canin takes a moment to find a cloth he can repurpose for a napkin, and hands it to Aleeka.

"Soup's for you.  Don't worry too much about wasting what you can't eat, I'm not that low on food just yet."

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She nods, taking the napkin in one hand and using it to cup the hot bowl, for now.

"Thank you." 

She turns her focus wholly to the soup, then, lifting it back to her mouth and taking slow, careful sips. 

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Jamis is just going to keep watch to make sure she doesn't choke on anything. 

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Canin will go ahead and head back out, giving them their space again.

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He will see neither hide nor hair of either child for several more hours. Eventually, however, Jamis may be found doing the dishes they'd used in the kitchen. 

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Canin is, in fact, in the kitchen when she comes in, poking around on his datapad next to the dish he must have eaten his own meal off of.  He glances up at her when she comes in.

"You willing to sleep in the medbay until Aleeka is walking again?"

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She glances towards her cupboard, but looks back and nods quickly, "Will move my things." 

She sets the bowl and cups up on the counter.

"Y'said there was another room on the ship? But it wasn't fit for sleeping in." 

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"'Lek.  I can get it cleaned out and ready tomorrow."  He had actually already started the process, coming up with spots in his own room to move much of the gear to, but he had in fact been fairly busy with preparing for the rescue.

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"I'll help," she offers. "Aleeka is gonna sleep a lot. Sides, s'my job." 

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"Sounds good."  He nods to where she's washing up.  "Aleeka finish the broth?" he asks.

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"Yeah. I ate the veg and meat, but she drank it all. Doesn't seem like it hurt at all." 

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"Good."  he glances at the time on his datapad.  "I should head back to the medbay with you, check up on her before I go to sleep."

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"Probably need the fresher after all that broth," she nods. "Let me wash up?" She gestures at the dishes. 

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"'course."  He's not going to stop her from cleaning up after herself.

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