Leverage Cassian AU: Summer Trip - Yukon

[last_kallig]

Before school starts, they decide that a trip somewhere nice and remote can serve multiple purposes. Swimming lessons, survival training, and a place where Ibani can REALLY show Cassian what she can do without fear of witnesses!

The Yukon seemed like a good fit, so that's where they've landed.

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[last_kallig]

"Wise of you," Ibani replies. She leans against Cassian. "It's excruciating, makes it hard to move, to stay upright. You have to WANT to hurt something, to make it work."

"Was generally my instructor's favorite form of discipline," she adds, voice quiet.

[childofrebellion]

He shifts over to give her a hug, "That's torture."

[last_kallig]

She hugs him back, tightly. "Yes, it is."

"I was required to use it often in interrogations, and had it used on me plenty when I was learning to resist being interrogated myself." Because of COURSE their method for learning to resist torture was inflicting actual torture!

[childofrebellion]

"I'm sorry," Cassian returns the hug, he knows far too much about interrogations though his never involved that kind of lightning.

[last_kallig]

"I'm learning another technique from the last holocron I retrieved, a defensive shield, but I haven't gotten it down yet."

"Ugh, I shouldn't be this sweaty already," she says, sighing. "Might be a good time for swimming?"

[childofrebellion]

"There's time. Yes, let's cool down," The lake's not far away from the clearing.

[last_kallig]

Ibani sheathes her weapon, more than ready to cool off!

"The lake's pretty this morning," she remarks.

She has her swimsuit on under her clothes, so she's not bothered about stripping off her outer layers in front of Cassian. She has the odd blade or blaster scar on her torso, but her leg is the most shocking set of scars. Nothing on Earth has dentition like that! Whatever it was was BIG, and it looks like it tried to rip her leg clean off!

[childofrebellion]

He notes the scars but doesn't comment as he strips down to his suit, he also has his share of scars and walks into the water where its shallow, "This is a good place to come in."

[last_kallig]

Ibani feels him noticing. "Tu'kata, Sith hound," she explains as she slowly walks into the water. "Most of the time they're not bigger than Ash, but that one was the size of a tiger."

"Would probably look better if it wasn't the first time I'd ever healed myself," she adds, tone wry.

She reaches out to him, not used to the feeling of water.

[childofrebellion]

"A tiger," He says quietly with a curse then moves towards her, "Be careful of the rocks under your feet."

[last_kallig]

"Supposedly there's no upper limit on how big they can get, if they're around enough Dark power and eat enough. They're not natural creatures, they were altered by the Sith long ago to be unnaturally aggressive. I'm not sure they CAN feel fear."

Ibani is careful as the rocks shift under her feet. "Buoyancy feels a bit like micro-gravity," she remarks. It's the closest thing she's personally experienced to swimming!

[childofrebellion]

He shakes his head, that's truly wrong, "If you feel comfortable, put your feet up and lean back to float."

[last_kallig]

It really is!

Ibani leans back and puts her feet up, to try to float. She struggles with it, at first, trusting the water to 'hold' her!

[childofrebellion]

Cassian reaches out to steady her, "You're okay, the water will hold you and I've got you."

[last_kallig]

Ibani's not sure about the water, but she trusts Cassian!

She takes a deep breathe, willing her nerves to calm.

"Oh!" she says after a moment or two of actual floating. "THIS is what's supposed to happen."

[childofrebellion]

"Yes, it is, this is where you start. Enjoy this for a while then we'll get into the actual swimming."

[last_kallig]

Ibani beams up at him, and tries to just enjoy floating for a while.

She reaches for the web of life around the lake and sits in it, metaphorical finger on the web, but not applying any pressure.

"Lots of visitors this morning," she remarks. "It's a busy place."

[childofrebellion]

"It is and peaceful," This is one of the most peaceful places that Cassian knows.

[last_kallig]

"Not used to peace," Ibani says, floating. "Some part of me keeps, I don't know, expecting to wake up and find out I was dreaming?"

That she never left Korriban, that finding Milliways again was noting more than a near-death hallucination.

[childofrebellion]

"I know, it takes time to get used to it," Sometimes he has trouble with it as well.

[last_kallig]

Still floating, she reaches out to hold his hand. "We'll figure it out together, right?"

[childofrebellion]

"We will," He squeezes her hand with a small smile.

[last_kallig]

She squeezes his hand back, gently. "Think I've got the hang of floating, what's next?"

[childofrebellion]

He talks her through basic swimming strokes as the day goes on, a moose comes to sip at the other side of the lake before they head back for lunch.

[last_kallig]

Ibani stares at the moose for a bit, because it is HUGE. "I am very glad that is not a predator," she tells Cassian.

Ibani dries off as best she can when she climbs out of the lake. She has worked up quite an appetite between her demonstration and swimming lessons!