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The next thing Garen knows, his commlink is blaring an insistent alarm from somewhere to his right.
But… no. the longer he listens to it, it sounds more like… someone bombarding him with so many messages all at once.
An unknown someone, judging by the alert tone.
`Emergency?` he wonders, tests, pings the Force. But it feels nearly as calm as when he woke up last, so… no.
`What else, then?`
He frowns a little, fumbles for the chirping, vibrating commlink, and open his chat inbox.
For the longest time, he just stares at the Alderaani sector code at the start of the string of numbers and letters that make up the commcode, which is followed by the Alderaani system code and the Alderaani planetary code and… `Is that the code for this area? Or Aldera? Or some place else? – Who’d so enthusiastically contact me, though, anyway? It’s sending me twenty-seven messages already and it’s still rising!`
He rubs at his eyes, sighs out his befuddlement and exasperation and interest, and begins to read.
Unknown: Ey!
Unknown: Lil bro!
Unknown: Welcome to Alderaan!
Unknown: ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
Unknown: 💙❤💜💚💛🧡🖤
Unknown: Wakey wakey
Unknown: So much to show you
Unknown: Sorry I wasn’t there
Unknown: My schedule doesn’t like sudden changes
Unknown: But I escaped!
Unknown: I peeked in
Unknown: You looked soooooo cute
Unknown: I complained to Fee
Unknown: He ought to have introduced us!
Unknown: I missed SO MUCH!!!
Unknown: Do you like kaniça?
Unknown: I made some
Unknown: Hubby loves it
Unknown: Fee loves it
Unknown: I want to know if you love it
Unknown: It’s all right though if you don’t!
Unknown: Plenty of time to try others and find out
Unknown: AND I DO WANT TO FIND OUT!
Unknown: So wakey wakey lil bro
Unknown: You could introduce me to your babies after that
Unknown: Already introduced myself to our cousin
Unknown: A piece of work that one
Unknown: But loveable in their own right I suppose
Unknown: Makes me interested again in our ancient history
Unknown: And I mean more than 10000 years ago by that
Unknown: You like archaeology?
Unknown: Or sparring?
Unknown: Or obstacle course?
Unknown: Or something else?
Unknown: Come on up!
Unknown: I want to know EVERYTHING!
Unknown: Bonus activity or item of your choosing if you get up now and tell me EVERYTHING
Unknown: No worries for Laré
Unknown: The gloomy prat is out here with us
Unknown: Fee can’t physically perceive them and you to an extent but I don’t have that much of a problem and there are tricks to bypass that odd Force thing anyway so it’s all right
Unknown: Fee is consulting your temple about it too
Unknown: Oh come stay here?
Unknown: I could reopen the old temple here
Unknown: We could be neighbours then!
Unknown: Hubby said your friend is his friend too
Unknown: He could stay here too
Unknown: And anyone else who wants to relocate
Unknown: Don’t you ever tire of the duracrete jungle and the press of sentients?
Unknown: Wink wink nudge nudge
Unknown: Seriously though!
Garen huffs uf a laugh, startled and reluctantly amused and even more bemused and… increasingly intrigued.
`Since when do I have an older sibling? I came to the temple by being delivered like a box of spare parts! And what did they mean by them reopening the old temple here?`
And, even more alarmingly, `Why wasn’t I aware that people peeked in? they even got Laré out of here! And what did they mean by Fee and them unable to physically perceive me and Laré?`