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[ Today must be a day for shitposting, because Kanan's got one too. ]

You know, the text thing doesn't usually give me much trouble. The devices have a pretty good voice-to-text and text-to-voice function on them. Unless you're typing a bunch of abbreviations, they can be hard to parse sometimes. The letter "y" seems to be either "why" or "yes" depending on the context, for instance. Still haven't figured out "L O L".

I even get some of those... what do you call them, "emojis". The device will tell me if there's a little smiling face or a finger pointing to the left or whatever, that's fine. Right up until there's a bunch of... vegetables? I don't know a lot of the vegetables on this planet. What even is an "eggplant", and what is "eggplant sweatdrops"? Are you watering your vegetable garden?

[ He's asking the tough questions. ]

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[ Kanan laughs faintly. ] Trust me, if I really didn't want to talk about it, I would just say it's none of your business and leave it at that. Honestly, I've never really... talked to another blind person before, so I guess you could say I'm just as curious about you as you are about me.

[ He supposes he feels the same way. But he's not sure how to respond to that, for a moment- Kanan had just said he'd had to come to terms with what happened to him, that it had been a process.

Fortunato's never taken what happened to him as something to be worked through. He's not sure what to respond with. For a variety of reasons. ]

...I am not sure what I can tell you. [ He might as well admit that part. ]

Were you born blind, or did something happen to you? How about we start there.

[ There's a sizable pause. He'd wanted to know who Kanan was, but he didn't mean for the conversation to go this way- and he really should have anticipated it.

How much can he give away? And how much is he willing to give away? Once he's clearly spent some time thinking: ]

It- it was recently. Not as long as you have been.

[ He sounds a bit awkward, saying it. Just don't ask him how. ]

Ah. Well, I understand if you don't want to talk about it. I didn't want to talk about mine for quite a while afterward. It's nice to meet you all the same.

[ Kanan's at least got the perspective of a few years to deal with things under his belt. ]

[ He feels a bit bad that his discomfort was so obvious; he doesn't like to feel like he's burdening others. In another way, he's relieved. ]

I am sorry. I- I did not mean to discuss it.

[ It wasn't the topic of the conversation, anyway, and changing tone tends to work. ]

Do you think the list will work?

It's fine. Like I said, it doesn't bother me.

You can always contact me if you do want to talk about it.

[ Understanding that this kid is still dealing with it, makes him want to reach out and try to help, if he can. ]

Oh, the list seems like it'll be helpful. I'm not planning to use the terminology myself, but it could be good to know some of it since I work with a lot of teenagers and I don't want to step in something on accident.

[ He'll keep Kanan's offer in mind, but in his current mindset, he doesn't really think he'd take it up; it doesn't feel right.

But that's for now. ]

That is good. It...is confusing. [ Not exactly many opportunities to text in his life, before. Now his classmates can be slightly incomprehensible, at times. ]

Yeah, back home we mostly communicate long-distance using audio and video, not text. So it's even more trouble for me.

[ Hm. Well, he'd prefer others to talk about themselves more than he'd like to tell his own story, so... ]

Were- were you from another time? [ A pause- he should clarify. ] With different technology.

I couldn't say about different times. I'm from a different galaxy, where we have a totally different history, not to mention calendar.

But I suppose it amounts to the same thing.

[ Oh- one of these people. He hasn't met many of them, so it's all a bit beyond him, but...he'll just shove the incomprehensibility of it in the back of his mind for now. ]

Then...this must be very strange.

[ A pause. He never knows what will set people off. But this man seems calm. ]

Do you know anyone, here? From your home.

[ Luckily, there is very little that could set Kanan off, and probably nothing that this kid could say. ]

There are several people here from my galaxy, though I only knew one or two of them back home.

[ "Galaxy" is a bit vast. But he's not the type to contest it. ]

That is good. If- if this place is so different, for you.

[ He's not going to state there's apparently no one here from his world; he can't imagine his own shock at arriving here was worse than Kanan. ]

It is what it is.

[ None of the people he'd really want to have here are here - and they probably shouldn't be here, anyway. ]

How about you? Have anyone you know from home here?

No. [ A short pause. Him being alone here has been both a blessing and a curse, in his circumstances. ]

If anyone is here...they are not someone I know. [ Considering the circumstances his world was in? It's possible. But very unlikely. ] But I do not think so.

Luckily, regardless of who is or isn't here from our own worlds, there are actually a lot of people here who are decent enough.

[ There are. It always makes him feel odd. It doesn't seem right. ]

I noticed. But...I noticed that is not always true.

[ A short pause. ]

I am- I am surprised, that there are not more for who it is not true.

Little bit pessimistic about whether people are inherently good, are you?

[ He grimaces, though Kanan can't see it. It's not quite that, but...it sort of is. He stammers a bit before he finds the way he wants to respond. ]

I- I know- there are many problems, here. Often. I...thought it would happen more than it does.

[ He got stuck in the Shimmer in his first month. It made an impression. ]

There are problems everywhere. But I think some of us - depending on where we come from, of course - are maybe used to things being a lot worse than what they usually are here.

It's an interesting problem to find yourself in, I can tell you that much.

[ Kanan's touched onto his exact problem. He really is bad at hiding these things, isn't he. ]

...Do you think it will last?

How long are you asking? Nothing lasts. Things change all the time. I hope, for the sake of this world, that they don't have to experience the kinds of things that have happened in mine. But even if that holds true, there will be other things that happen here. Some better, some worse.

[ He certainly knows that nothing lasts- but it feels strange to live in a world where many of the people he's met are more optimistic than not, and the threat is not always completely clear. At least in his own world he'd been taught methods to deal with things. ]

I- I think you are right. [ A pause. ] But...I do not think it will be a long time.

Yeah, I mean, everything in life is temporary. Here, things tend to be even more temporary. Weeks, or months, instead of years.

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