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.
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.
Joy concludes the song and finally looks at Talon.
"Are you alright?"
"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?"
"...d'you want me to sing something else? Something more poetic, less storytelling."
"Hmmm..."
First he will hug Teela and bonk his great big face against her shoulder repeatedly.
He gets singing again. This piece wanders around a grotto, describing the sights through the eyes of a recently hatched fry. An enormous sea star, a stand of kelp through which he darts as through a forest, several shiny rocks each of which merits a loving aria.
Oh good. That's the intended reaction.
With songs and stories the time is filled quite well on the journey to Tython. (It's barely a day-trip; the gravitational eddies are with them, and Eserik hadn't traveled too far out in the first place.) Eventually, they drop out of hyperspace and start the sublight portion of the trip.
Tython is perceptible at this distance, if you've got strong enough Force-senses. It's a clean and pleasant sound, to Joy, like drysong if pearls could sing it.
Talon has the mixed feelings of someone who has never experienced civilization, and Teela, by contrast, has the mixed feelings of someone who has experienced enough civilization to be unsure whether or not she approves.
Joy is perceptive enough to notice mixed feelings and not socially adroit enough to refrain from poking them.
"You seem confused," he says to Talon. "Don't you like it?"
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