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Eserik leaves the planet (tentatively named Iie*a) with one (1) sullen juvenile alien. He tries to make conversation as he steers the ship, but he's never been very good at that, so he allows it to lapse into awkward silence almost immediately.
He's headed back to Tython, when he perceives another eddy in the Force. "We're going to take a detour," he says to Joy.
Talon has heard this one before but still has a lot of feelings about it. He is MAD at the Sith and SAD about the dead mentor and HAPPY about the boy carrying on his mentor's legacy.
The ship begins making noises that indicate it will imminently enter hyperspace!
"- should we strap in?" Joy asks.
"I would say yes if we had anywhere to strap in, but we don't. It's a bit of a bump but it's not so bad if you're sitting on the floor," which they are.
"...right. It's fun that we're in a [whistleclickwhistle], I feel like - oh that didn't translate, did it. Um. Something where, even though it's a gift, you have to think about if you want to take it?"
"Well, I did steal it, on purpose, which if you think about it is rather the opposite of hesitantly accepting a gift, but somehow I still think the spirit of the descriptor applies," she says.
The bump occurs. It's sure bumpy. Hard to fall over when you're already on the floor, though.
"A [clickwhistleclick], maybe? - that's not a real word I just made it up."
Joy rocks back and forth at the motion. "Wheeee."
"...I was going to ask you to tell another story but I feel mildly anxious about making you do all the work keeping us entertained and that makes me wonder if you'd like me to do something. A story-song probably, though I don't know how that'll interact with the translator. Do you want to hear me sing?"
Joy starts in on a song! His singing voice is high and piping, but pleasantly so; it's clear, not shrill.
The song is about a young... whatever species he is... who is implanted with a lover and immediately sets out to adventure, leaving his fathers behind, because he's desperate to do something interesting, not just make art and have fun. Unfortunately, he is not very well suited to adventure; fortunately(?), he's self-deluded enough that he manages to convince himself at every turn that whatever disaster has just ensued is what he wanted. He loses his possessions fairly early, but reasons that he wanted to experience the world on his own merits. He makes several friends and drives them away with his terrible luck and inability to own up to mistakes, but convinces himself that they were the cause of whatever disaster latest befell him. Eventually, he falls in battle against a shark he had convinced himself was threatening a nearby village, which is actually a farmer's beloved pet; he goes to his grave convinced that he is a hero dying before his time, and when the spirits of the deeps show him his life and ask his regrets before letting him drift out of reality, he cheerfully claims none. The spirits state that he is the only man who has ever died happy, and that on balance, more people should lie to themselves if they want to enjoy life.
Over the course of the song, Talon goes from giggling to trying to hide his face in his hands, which does not work very well because he has quite a lot of face.
"I have a lot of feelings about that song!!!" he says, slightly muffled by his claws. "It's funny but it's scary! I don't wanna be wrong about things all the time!"
"Oh! The thing about him is that he's - trying to be wrong. I mean he's not trying trying but - he doesn't want to know the truth, you know? If you want the truth there's ways to make sure you're not fooling yourself. That's one of the things the song's about, see - he has all these signs he's ignoring, like losing all his stuff and his friends telling him to stop and the collar on the shark."
He tries to hide his face in Teela instead, and is once again thwarted by an excess of face.
"Feelings!!!" he declares emphatically.
"There's a lot of feelings to be had about songs. If they're good to have then should I not worry?"
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