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In case anyone was wondering what that strange light looks like I got me a pair of binocs.

[ Cobb waved a truly ridiculous pair of binoculars that are violently green and purple and look like some sort of rabbit/dog/animal. ]

And took a closer look. It's kinda like looking at the binary suns back home. A lot of bright and not a lot else around it. You can't see anything else but the bright.

[ Which explained why Cobb face was not centered in camera and he was still rubbing at his eyes. He had a few minutes at least before the bright spot burned into his eyes fades away. ]

So, sorry this didn't help much but if anyone needs to borrow some binocs I've got a pair handy.

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I was surprised as you. They don't have the greatest range but they do actually work.

[ He looks at them with an amused little smile. ]

Pretty sure it's made for kids lookin' all cute like this.

Yeah... I would have enjoyed one of those as a kid.....

[ Jon, stop drifting off-topic. ]

I- I mean- I don’t think the designers had looking at evil alien towers in mind, yes.

It is another tower, is it?

I can't see anything around it. It could be floatin' in midair for all I know.

[ He really couldn't see any details around the glow. It was frustrating. ]

If, uh, if they're workin' on somethin' with the light maybe it ain't done. That's why he can't see it. They're not ready for us.

[ He makes a face after that. Had he really said that? Was he really trying to figure out these alien bastards? ]

It’s blinking just like the tower and seems to be getting further away once anyone gets closer... I want to say it’s just another tower and that maybe it has been there the entire time, but... If it’s actually floating......

Christ. Then the distance-issue would actually make sense!

....and it would make disabling it a lot harder than the tower. If the tower has actually ever been a problem at all and not just some... I don’t know. Something to keep us distracted?

You're gonna have to catch me up. What's this tower you keep talkin' about? And is it dangerous?

[ All those half finished sentences are not helping his confusion any. ]

[ Jon takes a deep breath, then exhales. ]

North-western part of the city. There has been a blinking light like this one. Once you got nearer, you could see that it’s on top of a large tower and- We may have broken it? It had a small control room hidden nearby. With buttons and a countdown and... I’m rather certain it caused the spider invasion. So we went back there and it just.... It all Stopped.

Tony and the other engineers will have to give it a closer look. Maybe dismantle it for anything we can use. But- This new light showed up the night after we turned off the tower. Somehow.

The cameras are still running and nothing has changed since we left it.

Huh.

[ Cobb is going to take a little moment to digest it. ]

So, you broke what was probably some sort of defense system? And now it's set up in some sort of... moving light in response?

It had a defense system. But I’m more convicts it actually caused the energy storms.

Unless it had been a decoy all along.

Sounds like something for the engineers to make a call on.

Whatever that light is, they don't want us near it or really lookin' at it. Probably because of what you folks did to the first one. I think we're just gonna have to keep an eye on it and wait.

...I just hope the next storm isn't even worse than the ones we have already seen here.

I'm sure they're gonna be bad but... I grew up with five day long sandstorms. I know to respect them but I just... ain't that scared. That's gonna bite me in the ass.

Sandstorms. Dreadful things, but still... Mostly physical. Unless supernatural means get involved and things turn nasty.

The energy storms are more inclined to do exactly what you said you are opposed of: Drag things out of your mind to use against you. You may want to mentally prepare for that.

Folks talk about seeing things in the sand. Mirages or faces, stuff like that. I've never seen anything myself.

Hence why I'm certain this will all bite me in the ass. [ There are lots of things in his past Cobb doesn't ever want to see again. ]

Or you end up not being as easily affected as others. As I believe a person unable to feel fear would not have been affected by the storm that had people chased by their worst fears.

[ Which was a weird one for Jon. All the monsters he had come to loathe and fear tried to befriend him and welcome him as one of their own. ]

How do you get through a sandstorm that lasts for days?

What? The more bullshit you've been through in the life the kinder they are to you?

[ That doesn't sound right even though he said it. ]

Fix things around the house. Sleep. Watch holos if you've got up. I knit.

Oh, not at all. It's more that certain... Affinities or... Certain degrees of experience? They make some of these things easier to handle.

[ Well, he doesn't know what holos are precisely, but he can guess. But that's less what catches his interest. ]

Knitting? You mean you could put that glowing wool of the glownies to actual use?

The more bullshit you've seen the more bullshit you can handle.

[ He shakes his head, sadly. ]

I can knit and sew but I don't know how to make yarn. That's a whole different thing. Old Jyssa in town would make it.

I doubt it can be that difficult. People have made yarn for centuries without the need of any needlessly complicated machinery.

[ Famous last words? ]

We didn't have machines for it. She did it by hand with this wheel thing. Sat inside and worked at it for hours a day. Her daughter had a loom. Used to make what they could from bantha wool.

Huh. I suppose spinning wheels are universal tools. They exist on my Earth as well. Though I assume industrialization has banned a lot of the ones still in existence into museums. Such handiwork is... It's gotten rather rare where I'm from.

It's rare where I'm from. Most places don't make it by hand. We just have to in Mos Pelgo. We're real small. We made what we can and trade for what we can't.

Makes sense. And as long as it all works out for you, that’s good. Though part of me wonders how high the demand for wool is on a planet with two suns...

[ Sounds hot. At the same time he’d be curious to see these himself. ]

When the suns go down the desert gets cold. You need blankets. Rugs. Pillows. Bantha wools is real useful for a lot of things.

[ Cobb would be very skeptical most people here could survive Tatooine on their own. They all seem so... polished Core planet to him. It's an unfair judgement, probably. ]

I feel like this is something I should have known.... There are deserts on Earth as well after all. Though I have never been to one.

[ Though the feeling Cobb gets may be justified. London may be pretty core world-y. ]

Can't escape 'em on Tatooine. Whole planet is deserts with the occasional canyon. Hot during the day, freezing cold by night. You can see stars for miles though and there's nothing as pretty as the twin sunrises.

[ And now he's feeling a little homesick. ]

But if you can get my yarn I can knit things. Socks, scarves, gloves. Made a blanket once. Those take a long time.

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I just see what autocorrect did up there.... wow

context is so helpful

it certainly is <3

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