Corellian Sector, Coruscant [Thursday late afternoon]

[momslilassassin]

Ben, mindful that the last time he'd been in the Corellian Sector he'd been a member of GAG and kicking down doors looking for terrorists, put a bright smile on his face, prayed no one recognized him, and led Karla and Ender around.

"This is where you can find really astral food," he said enthusiastically, because this was Ben and food was pretty much top on his list of judging how good a place was, just below "are they shooting at me?" "There's also neat stuff to look at and almost everyone here speaks Basic. You might run into some Selonians or Drall, but Corellia itself is mostly human."

[OOC: For the two with him!]

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[glacial_queen]

"Don't stick your tongue out at me!" Karla said, hands on hips. "You can't stick your tongue out at someone when they're right, you know. Everyone knows that!"

[momslilassassin]

"You just made that up," Ben decided.

[glacial_queen]

"Psssht," Karla scoffed. "Just goes to show that you're secretly an unlettered barbarian, it does."

[momslilassassin]

"I am not," Ben said with a small snort.

[glacial_queen]

"If you weren't, then you'd know these things," Karla retorted, trying not to grin.

[momslilassassin]

"I think you're just making things up so that you're not always wrong," Ben decided.

[glacial_queen]

"Prerogative of a Queen," Karla lied airily. "In fact, we can shape the very fabric of reality to mean we're never wrong."

[momslilassassin]

"Explains your approach to games," Ben said dryly.

[glacial_queen]

"Just because you're lousy at cradle doesn't mean that I need to cheat," Karla snickered.

[momslilassassin]

"I'm not lousy at it," Ben protested. "You just change everything halfway through, or when you're losing. Or because it's Tuesday. Or all three."

[glacial_queen]

"I only change the rules within a hand when we're playing the wildcard variation," Karla reminded. "Though if you wanted me to come up with some variation based on the day of the week and maybe the moon-phases, I'm sure I could..."

[momslilassassin]

Ben put his hand over his face. "Please don't go to any trouble on my account."

[glacial_queen]

"I can't wait for you to meet the rest of the coven," Karla said, eyes shining. "Then you'll see I'm not cheating. And Kalush is really good at cradle, better than me. And Grezande is the best at coming up with new variations. Elan won't even play with her anymore."

[momslilassassin]

"Maybe I'll just play with Elan instead," Ben said.

[glacial_queen]

"Chicken," Karla murmured, turning to look at a dress.

Not quite under her breath, though.

[momslilassassin]

"I am not," Ben declared.

[glacial_queen]

"Scared of a couple of rounds of cradle..."

[momslilassassin]

"Tired of losing," Ben corrected.

[glacial_queen]

"It's not all that complicated, even with the wildcard variation," Karla complained. "I don't get it. You and Morton sound exactly alike."

As did the rest of the boyos, really.

"It's a perfectly logical game!"

For an interesting definition of 'logical.'

[momslilassassin]

"It's not," Ben replied with a smile. "I could understand something logical."

[glacial_queen]

"Female logic," Karla decreed. "And therefore completely incomprehensible to a brain connected to a co--" She stopped and looked at Ben, trying to gauge how much blushing the rest of her sentence would cause.

[momslilassassin]

Oh, he was pretty red already.

"Um."

[glacial_queen]

"Common male," she finished, trying not to sigh. Honestly. Ben got so worked up about certain things.

[momslilassassin]

"That's not what you were going to say," Ben replied, "but thanks."

[glacial_queen]

"Kiss kiss," Karla said, grinning.