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[Open] Come away little light

who: Rey and OTA
what: Rey coming to the conclusion she would be here for sometime and CR building.
when: 9/16--9/20
where: Around town
warnings: None, will be updated as needed.

In the beginning, Rey was dead set on finding a way home. She wanted--no, needed to find a way back home. There were things she had to do. She had to find Luke, she had to give him his lightsaber and...hopefully, he would train her. Given her connection to the Force, she would need to be trained. There would come a time when she would face Kylo Ren again, and she had to be prepared, but now that she was stuck in this place. What would she do?

It had been a week or two since she came via portal to this place. A place that made no sense to her and one she wasn't willing to trust. Some viewed it as a second chance, a new home for themselves. While that was fine for them, she couldn't stay, but she couldn't leave either. Was this part of the Force? Obi-Wan said she had to learn to trust in it. The Force could be confusing, but there had to a be a reason behind it, right? Rey was contemplating that idea, letting it circle around in her head as she left the Communal Hall. If she was meant to be here, then maybe it was time for her to start looking for work?

She went into the city, her eyes flickering down to her phone every now and then. There were times when she was searching through it and the posts on the network, looking for answers..none came. If she was going to find work...what would she do? Jim had suggested she join the Perimeter Guard, but could she? She didn't exactly trust how things were being run here...but what other choice did she have?

Rey wasn't paying too much attention to where she was going until she stopped realizing she was at the park. She took a seat on a park bench and mentally ran through her options and what she would need to do to live in this new place.

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"No. They're called Pokemon and they came through from another world with one of the people that came through the portal. They're all outside in the forest. I found Skinfaxi first." He pointed to the Ponyta. Really, who wouldn't want a horse on fire? It was just the coolest thing, especially for a sixteen year old Viking.

"Then Hrimfaxi came next. Sprig belonged to my girlfriend--" There was a brief moment where his throat tightened up and a flicker of pain crossed his face. "--but she left, so I got landed with him too." Three Pokemon plus a new baby meant Ivar had his hands full giving them all equal attention.

"Pokemon?" Rey repeated, testing the word out on her tongue. So they were pets then. Beasts who had a language of their own, and who could only say their names it looked like. Her eyes trailed to the creature with the firey mane, and the other beast.

She saw the pain in Ivar's eyes, it was the same pain she saw in Leia's eyes and Chewie's demeanor when they lost Han.

"I'm sorry that she's not here.." his girlfriend, lover. Rey hoped they would be able to see each other again, but considering she was still learning the ropes of this place, who knew.

"They're very lucky to have you. I can't say someone would be willing to look after another's pet after they're gone from my world."

"I'm not." He says the words very coldly and harshly, but it sounds more like he's trying to convince himself more than Rey. It's barely been a month, so Ivar's still feeling the pain that came with Letha's decision to leave him and their daughter Winter behind.

Ivar shrugs. He'd never thought about it that way. When he saw there was a helpless creature who needed looking after, he hadn't even thought twice about taking on another burden. "I like most animals more than I do people. They don't judge you like people always do." He's never had his Pokemon look on him with pity, wondering why he's not like other men. No, they just love him as he is.

The coldness in his tone is not hard to miss. Clearly, it's a touchy subject, one that Rey wouldn't press. She knows what it's like to have someone leave; the anger, the hurt...and the hope that they would come back. Though, Ivar's situation is most likely different than her own, but she could empathize with him.

"True...beasts, creatures don't care who you are, as long as you don't bother them." Or wander into their territory, or mark yourself as prey. The same could be said about droids. They don't care what you are, as long as you give them something to do...and keep them from being sold off as scrap metal.

"How long have you been here?" A safe, neutral question...something to keep the conversation going..assuming he wanted it to.

"Exactly. My horses are loyal to me, so I am kind to them in turn." Skinfaxi has finished grazing and wanders over to his master, butting him lightly with his muzzle so that Ivar will pet him. He reaches up, running his hand behind the fire Pokemon's ears and down his neck, his hand completely unaffected by the flames that made up his mane.

"Just a little over six months now. Feels like it's gone very fast and hardly at all at the same time." When he'd first arrived, Ivar had been a teenager with a major attitude and anger issues, mad at the world, and ready to burn it down because of that. Over the course of six months, while his anger hadn't disappeared, it had begun to lessen, due to the presence of friends and parental figures. The birth of his daughter had brought out a whole new side to the Viking, one full of love that he thought he'd never possess.

Rey watched with interest to see the Pokemon come up to Ivar. A mane of fire that didn't burn Ivar's hand, nor was there a strong heat coming form the beast. Just...warmth. As though the fire was nothing at all. Fascinating. There wasn't anything like that on Jakku.

"More than loyal, they seem very fond of you."

But, he had been here six months. Interesting...she couldn't imagine her being on this moon for that long. Then again, when she came to live on Jakku, she thought her family would be back for her within a few nights, which turned into weeks, then months, and then years.

"I...arrived, you could say, a week or so ago.." Still so new and still trying to adjust and wrap her head around things.

"I would hope so. They saved my life." He didn't elaborate on what seemed like the start to an interesting story, merely continuing to pet his Ponyta in slow strokes. He pulled out a small bag of sugar cubes, feeding one to Skinfaxi. The Ponyta picked up the cube delicately from his palm.

"One week? I hope you had a better adjustment period than I did." At least Rey would be used to things like the electric light. Ivar had come from a very far back time of Earth's history, so he'd truly been a temporal fish out of water.

Noticing that Skinfaxi was getting something that he wasn't, Sprig sat up, nudging Rey insistently. "Phan, Phantump!" He said. It was clear the little glutton wanted some sugar cubes too.

Ivar smiled. "I think he wants you to give it to him. Do you mind?" He held out the bag to Rey.

It did sound like an interesting story, but if he didn't want to continue on with it then she wouldn't ask. It wasn't Rey's business to know and if he wanted to tell her then he would. For now, Rey was content with talking with him and enjoying the presence of his Pokémon. It was different than being surrounded by other scavengers or even a droid. The creatures were remarkable in their own right.

"Depends on what you mean by 'better.' There are some things that are similar here but so different. " Like how common electricity was but traveling to other planets wasn't.

When Ivar took out the sugar cubes, Rey didn't pay too much attention until her new little friend wanted some. She let out a soft chuckle.

"No I wouldn't. Just give him one?" She asked, taking a sugar cube from Ivar, and then passing it to Sprig.

"If you knew what a phone and running water that came in through pipes were before you came here, then you were doing better than me. I seem to have come from pretty far back." But he'd adjusted as well as he could. Even after six months, there was some things he still didn't understand, and might never get. At least he had the important things down.

"Just one. I've no idea if a haunted tree stump can get fat, but I'd prefer not to test the theory out." Sprig grabbed a hold of it with his wispy little hands and munched on it happily, his light blue eyes wrinkling up in happiness.

"A phone?" Her eyebrows were knitted together for a moment before she recalled what if meant. "It's called a comm from where I'm from. But, no running water?" Well, to be fair. There wasn't running water in every area of Jakku. There was a spring, a communal area for water, but that was more or less it.

"The idea that other people are from different time periods, still trying to come to grips with that. " among other things like people from the past from her own world. Plus, the fact she was here before....

"Think I'm doing well, at least I have a place to stay. " and not looking for one, thank goodness.

She watched as Sprig munched away on his sugar cube. Something so simple to make him happy. The idea of him getting fatter was a bit funny.

"Maybe instead of fat, he'll grow into a tree!?" She had no idea, she was only guessing. She noticed how blue Sprig's eyes were in comparison to Ivar's...still beautiful and striking.

"No running water, no electricity, no vehicles that didn't move without animals pulling them. Most people here seem to have come from after the year 2000 or thereabouts. I came from 816." He hadn't been exaggerating when he said he came from a ways back.

"As long as you have food and shelter, you're doing alright." It was the little things in life that one had to be thankful for.

He glances at Sprig, who licks around the edges of his mouth with quite a large tongue in comparison with the rest of his face, getting any small traces of the sugar cube he might have missed. "Now there's an idea. It's said they can evolve into different forms, but I don't know what Phantumps turn into. I'll have to ask the Pokemon Professor." He really needed to go to more of Professor Sycamore's classes so that he could properly care for his creatures.

Rey knitted her eyebrows together in thought, trying to figure out if there was a way for her to translate the year she was actually from. However, that was difficult considering, she didn't exactly know the year she was from. Days and weeks were all that mattered on Jakku. Not the years, only if the First Order took over and rewrote the calendar system.

"I can't say what time period I'm from, but...we have at least running water, and a few other things. Some say futuristic given we can travel from one area to another very quickly." No need to say star system just yet. But wow, he came form such a long time ago.

Now her puzzled features only deepen. These creatures could...evolve? Grow?

"I didn't know that was possible. I'd assumed he'd grow just...bigger in size?" If that made sense, but the little creature was adorable, trying to lick away any remaining bits of sugar on its mouth.

"It's been interesting, learning about what other people have in their worlds that I lacked in mind." Which was pretty much everything when he got down to it. Vikings had only primitive technology and hadn't even discovered all of the known world in Ivar's time. Since coming here, it had been shocking to realize what kind of ignorance he'd been living in.

Getting back to the topic of the Pokemon, he tapped Skinfaxi on his muzzle. "They do grow in size. Skinfaxi here was only a little foal this big--" He shows off the size with his hand, barely at his head height sitting down as he is in the wheelchair. "--when I first got him. They grow, but apparently, they can also evolve, changing shape, and becoming more powerful."

"I can only imagine. There are some similarities between my world and this one, but there's still an adjustment period." Especially when it came to coming to grips about her situation and going with the flow rather than fighting it. Right now, Ivar was helping with providing her a much needed distraction.

As for Pokemon, well, she was surprised to learn they could 'evolve' into a different shape or size.

"There is nothing like that from where I'm from. I suppose the closest thing would be a droid..you built it and then you can add onto it later on, but it doesn't do it on its own." She thought of BB-8 and then R2, missing both of them.

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