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 Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 4:35 pm
There was a funny smell in the house…a smell of hot, boiling water. Millicent crept down the stairs of her house slowly, looking around. Hot water normally meant just one thing. Her mother must be making hot chocolate.
Slowly, very slowly, she made her way into the living room, pretending that she was a Jedi sneaking into a highly guarded war room or something, trying to make no noise, her own Jedi robes rustling softly. She looked around, making sure her mom wasn’t in the room, and she wasn’t yet, but…
Someone else was! She could see her on the couch, a braid of long brown hair. Millie frowned. Who was this person? An intruder! A Sith Lord? Come to destroy the most fantastical Jedi on the entire planet? Millie shook her head, puffing up slightly. Not on her watch.
She moved ever closer, still careful to make as little noise as possible, then…when she reached the back of the couch, she reached up, clasped her hand around the base of the braid…and tugged. “Halt you! Identify yourself and state your business!” She cried, still hiding behind the couch. “Why are you in my living room, and why is my mother giving you Hot Chocolate?” She sure was one amazing Jedi.
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 7:03 pm
Anandi was situated on a rather comfortable couch, smiling to herself while looking over the contents of Bellatrix's lovely house. It was quaint and warm just as the girl expected it to be. Books and fun trinkets adorned bookshelves and the walls, pictures of Bellatrix and her daughter were everywhere. It was very nice! Anandi rather liked it very much. Just before sitting down, the plucky student phoned her mother to let her know where she was (a babysitting job, a fib, but it was good enough) and that she would come home later that evening.
Her supposed babysitting target? Well, Anandi was going to ask about Bellatrix's young daughter when something pulled at her hair and caused her to squeak and nearly break the older woman's nice coffee table.
"AIEEEE!"
Whipping herself around, Anandi clutched the edges of the couch and peered over with quivering golden eyes. Oh! She must've been Millie, Bellatrix's daughter. How... how nice. "Um... yes hello. I'm Anandi and your mother is a very nice lady and she let me come over to have hot chocolate!" She hoped her shriek didn't alert the neighbors three doors down. Oops.
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 7:16 pm
Millie was not proud to say, that she jumped nearly a foot in the air when the evil sith intruder gave a shriek like that. She might not have been proud to admit it, but that is what happened. In an instant the child dropped the braid and jumped to the floor, reaching under the couch and drawing out one of her lightsabers. (She kept them hidden in all sorts of places, just in case of a sudden, terrible Sith attack) “Step back! Step back you monster!”
Clearly this person was not human. Clearly she was some evil alien harpy, intent on destroying the entire world, and drinking all of Millie’s hot chocolate.
With the green lightsaber pointed at the girl, Millie took a step backwards, then glanced at the intruder’s outfit. It looked a lot like…
“Oh! Do you go to the same school as Jett? That looks like the outfit that he wears to school!” Well. If this Sith Lord went to Jett’s school, then maybe she wasn’t so terribly evil…and maybe Millie could use her wonderful Jedi ways to bring her back to the light side. She listened to the girl’s introduction, then tossed the lightsaber aside and held out her hand. “Hi. I’m Millie. This is my house, and I’m getting hot chocolate too. If you’re a friend of Jetts, then I guess I won’t slice you in two with my lightsaber.”
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:21 pm
Anandi had but one reaction, and that reaction was this:
O____________O
She very well could have torn up Bellatrix's couch with the clawing she would have done had she not had an ounce of self-control. First she nearly got eaten by a horrible dogmonster and now this child was threatening to hack her in half with a lightsaber. This was almost as bad as the acid trip space whale ballerina incident Of Which We Must Not Speak.
This evening wasn't looking very safe all of a sudden. There were enough monsters outside!
She didn't know who Jett was, but if they had the same uniform then clearly they must go to the same school. Maybe they were in the same classes? She seemed to recall someone, maybe a blonde? Was he having the same weird dream? Maybe. She couldn't remember. "Um... yes, I go to HITS! I study technology and I really appreciate you not slicing me in two. That would make me very sad. Very, very sad." She nodded a few times for emphasis.
Anandi hadn't seen the movies or read the books, but the lightsaber and the Jedi concept were vaguely familiar to her. "Are you... a Jedi person? A really good Jedi person? A queen Jedi?" The young girl couldn't remember the title of Jedi but... she had the right idea!
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:34 pm
The young girl grinned at Anandi’s reaction and laughed, walking around to the front of the couch and plopping down on it. “HITS? I don’t know. I think they really named that school badly…it sounds like it should be a school for bullies, not for smart people.” At the mention of slicing her in half, Millicent just laughed again, nodding. “Don’t worry, Anandi, I only slice bad people in half. I am a Jedi, yeah! But…I’m not a Jedi Queen, not yet…I’m a Jedi Master though, I think. I have a lot of padawans…people that I’m training to be stronger…’cause…”
She dropped her voice. “This city is a very dangerous place, you know. So I want all of my friends and people I like to have lots of lessons in saber combet so they can protect themselves with a lightsaber! It actually works!”
She glanced towards where her lightsaber had fallen and gave it a smile, as though it was one of her friends. Sure, the sabers weren’t super effective against youmas, but they sure helped beat them a little faster than without them.
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:29 am
Anandi vigorously shook her head. Her school wasn't meant for bullies and mean people! Though she did think it was odd how many of the spacewhaleballerina incident people ended up there. What an odd coincidence! "No no, you see," she started, using her hands to elaborate,"HITS stands for Horizon Institute for Technology and Science, and it's an acronym. It's not for bullies, I promise." She smiled brightly. This little girl was very smart, just as she was suspected to be. Perhaps she'd end up at the institute too?
The darker girl leaned in when Millie lowered her voice and blinked. "Yes, the city is a very dangerous place!" she agreed. "Even for Jedi Masters with lots of... padded wands! Yes, you still have to be very careful. I bet your mother takes very good card of you. I bet the bad people are rather afraid of your mother!"
She sat back up and made a determined face, hands balled into fists. "I know if I was a bad guy, I'd think twice about messing with a Jedi Master and her padded wands!" ...obviously Anandi didn't watch Star Wars and if she had, she didn't retain nearly enough to satisfy the redhead, though she would try. Anandi was nothing if not honest in her intentions to please.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 7:31 pm
Millicent gave Anandi a very, very confused look, then got off of the couch and grabbed her lightsaber from the floor. She walked back to the couch, then extended the plastic, looking at it for a long moment, then giving the other girl a light tap on the head. “I don’t know what you’re talking about. This isn’t padded at all.” Wow, for someone who went to a school for Technology and Science…she really had to study up on lightsabers.
“My mom does take care of me…but I don’t know about the bad people being afraid of her…they should be more afraid of me. Like you said. I’m a Jedi Master. Mom isn’t though, she’s just boring and normal…but she’s my mom. So I guess I can forgive her for not being as awesome as I am.”
She grinned at the older girl then made a motion as if to throw the lightsaber again, though paused. “Do you wanna be my padawan? I could teach you how to protect yourself and stuff. It’ll do you good. You’ll get better at not letting people sneak up on you and pull your hair…like I did.”
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 6:25 pm
Anandi's eyes crossed as she tried to stare down the incoming lightsaber. Clearly she and the girl were at an impasse - Anandi thought lightsabers were lightsabers and something else was a padded wand but... now things were just getting so confusing! "So you have lots of the lightsabers and also padded wands? I'm so... lost... I'd certainly like to be your padded wand too but... I'm not a wand and I don't have any padding? Unless you mean armor? Do I wrap myself up?"
This was getting nowhere. The Indian girl vigorously shook her head.
Being normal certainly wasn't boring! And being a mother on top of that? Hardly! Especially with a precocious little darling like Millicent. No doubt Miss Bellatrix had her hands full most of the time. "You know about the bad people, Miss Millicient? I mean, Mistress Jedi Millicent?" Anandi wasn't sure what the little girl was referring to with her talk of bad people but she didn't think it would be a bad thing to inquire. "I would certainly like to not be... sneaked... snuck up on! Especially by bad people!" She screwed up her face and twisted her hands into fists.
DETERMINED ANANDI FACE, GO!
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:46 pm
For a long moment, Millie just stared at the girl, then very slowly nodded. “Yeah…I have a lot of…of…” Padded wands…Padded wands? “Padawans! Oh! Not Padded Wands, silly. Pad. A. Wans. And, yeah! I would love you to be my padawan! I’ll train you and take real good care of you, you don’t have to wrap yourself up at all!”
She felt very proud of herself for figuring out the strange girl’s code. How silly. There was no way that padawans could be padded wands. That’s just…
She blinked as she was asked about the bad people. Oh…well…now here was a problem. Should she lie? Say that she didn’t know anything? Or should she tell the truth? But what if this lady WAS one of the bad guys…that could be terrible! Finally the girl nodded. “I know that there are bad people in the world…that’s why you have to know how to protect yourself, right? So they don’t scoop you up and run away with you.” Yes. So…that made it seem like most if not all strangers were bad guys. It wasn’t very likely that this silly girl would know that there were real dangers out in the streets…and Millie didn’t want to let her in on that secret.
“But, there are heroes, you know. And even if you do get scooped up, I’m sure a hero will save you!”
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:15 pm
"Pad. A. Wans. Right, padawands. Padd... padawans!"
It took Anandi several tries with the strange syllables to get them in the correct order, but from what she could tell, 'padawan' meant student or something. She'd never seen the lightsaber movies but she knew about Yoda and Vader from all the internet memes she so loved. She clapped her hands together in joy. "Yes, I will be a wonderful padawan to Miss Millicent. I mean, Miss Jedi Master Millicent. Or should you just be 'Master'?" Now she didn't know what to think - what did a padawan call their master? Was there another funny name for that?
As Millicent explained about the bad people in the world scooping you up and running away with you, she became startled. "Oh no no no no! They can't scoop you up and... oh that's terrible! Good thing you have your mother to protect you! Oh, and me too! Do padawans frequently protect their master?" She nodded fervently and smiled, golden eyes glittering. "Oh yes, there are lots of heroes out there to save you if you're in trouble! Yes, yes indeed! I've seen them!"
She wasn't supposed to tell. Mr. Camelot said so, but a child was okay, right? The bad guys didn't have children in their ranks, right?
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