Room 223, Tuesday Afternoon

[life_inshadow]

With no classes and Fiona a cat, Tara's last few days had been quiet. She wished she could say she'd done something useful with them, but it had mostly been reading -- there was a new Juanita Drake, Werewolf Killer novel out -- and trying to drive the non-Fiona cats insane with string and catnip.

Finally done with the book, she turned on her computer and logged onto a Wiccan website. Most of it was henna-and-spice-rack stuff, but one or two of the people on it knew what they were talking about and could spell, which made it the least depressing message board she knew of.

Her room door was open even though she wasn't expecting company.

[OOC: Open post! I just realized she hasn't been around in a while.]

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[weetuskenraider]

Using the Force like that was instinctive to Tahiri. A little too instinctive, unfortunately; Corran'd yelled at Anakin more than once for the way his casual Force use was a bad influence, especially on Tahiri. It hadn't even occurred to her until after Tara asked, honestly, that it could be a problem.

"I --" No sense in lying. She wasn't very good at it anyway. "Yeah," Tahiri admitted, faltering. "I didn't mean to upset you, so I just . . . sorry."

[life_inshadow]

"And I didn't mean to upset you by asking about the aura thing," Tara said, though she still looked wary. "It's okay. It -- it didn't feel like anything bad."

She still didn't like magic being used on her that casually, but she could accept what seemed to be a real apology. (Whatever Tahiri's aura said, Tara liked her.) Besides, she was curious.

"That was a Force thing?"

[weetuskenraider]

For all that they put so much emphasis on morality, the Jedi had some strange blind spots, sometimes.

"Yeah." Tahiri fiddled with the hem of her robe. Boy, could she see Master Skywalker glaring at her right now. "That wasn't one of my better ideas. I'm really sorry. I just . . . didn't realize you could see that."

[life_inshadow]

"I don't talk about it a lot?" Tara offered. "Most people aren't really that interesting, it's just like ... a little warning on their personality. If somebody's aura is black I'll stay away."

"We both kind of freaked the other person out a little."

[weetuskenraider]

A little of the tension in Tahiri's shoulders eased up, and she nodded. "It's okay. You didn't throw me out or anything, so you can't have seen anything that bad, right?" Her laugh was a tiny bit forced, out of lingering awkwardness, but she was trying. "And I won't do that again, if you don't want me to."

[life_inshadow]

"Definitely nothing scary," Tara said, trying to be reassuring. "And yeah, ask first. I mean, if I'm wigged out for no reason that would probably be -- nice."

[weetuskenraider]

"I'll remember that," Tahiri said, her chin jutting out slightly with determination. "But if you think you need it, you can always ask. I'm happy to help. It's sort of what we do."