“Thanks, ma’am but I was born on a dark year here. I'll be fine in the cold for a bit. Hiro chuckled as he looked down at his saber. “ mom said it was my fathers, he died when I was born. “ he watched as Elias walked in, “ here sir, I guess I stole these for you, and a little grease never hurt anybody. “ he chuckled, looking around the ship. “Woah.. This is an old one.” he said softly
Elias smiled and slapped the bulkhead.
"You don't have to call me sir kiddo. And thanks for the parts. We'll need them eventually. She's an older model, but she's reliable. It was one of the few the Pantorans could convert over in such a short time. They are cold weather dwellers, but not cold enough for Hothians. We have to keep our ship at a solid 38 standard degrees in order to be comfortable."
Elias nodded at Winter.
"Hit it hun. Let's get out of here. I don't want to be here any longer than we have too."
Winter slid into the pilot's chair and pressed a few buttons to begin the take off sequence.
"So kid, what's your name and who were your people? You said your saber there was your father. Maybe we knew him."
“I was young when my mother and father were killed, I don't really remember them. But I know after he died I took on his name like he always wanted. So my name his hiro. Hiro shimada “
Winter thought for a moment.
"The name sounds familiar. But I can't be sure. However, I do know that when we reach Coruscant, we will have access to the old Jedi archives. We can search for information for your family. Or anything about the Jedi. Truth be told, Elias and I need to look up more on the Jedi ourselves. We need to know more about the Force. We know we can use it, and we sense things with it, and we use it to help ourselves, but beyond that we have no idea what it's capable of. We just want some answers. Just like you."
“Then maybe we can become out own little bookworm family,” he said with a chuckle.
Elias laughed and rubbed his head.
"Kid, we've barely even met. Give it a few more days, weeks, months, and yeah sure if you stick around then we can call each other a family. But we have to find out more about you first. I love the enthusiasm though."
“It was a joke but I don't plan on leaving. Y'all just drug me from my only home,” he said, though hiro tilted his head when frost came back in “ hi small being of chaos.”
Elias laughed, and then threw his hands in the air when he saw Frost.
"We're only taking 30 minutes naps now aren't we? What a record."
Frost giggled and made his way towards Winter.
"Hey baby. Sleep good? Ama is flying the ship. Are you hungry? The same goes for you Hiro. Are you hungry?"
“I'm not all that hungry,” he said, taking a deep breath as he watched the planet escape from view. When he let his breath out, it came out as a midnight blue could..
Elias nodded at Hiro's cloud.
"That's a cool little trick. I'm going to assume it's Force created and not because you're smoking some special new strand of spice. Eiher way it's cool."
Hiro laughed “ no. I don't smoke, “ he said and sighed “ my mentor called them feeling clouds. It's a visual release of my emotions because of the force..” he said and looked the child. He can see it without it being visual “
Winter picked up Frost.
"I wouldn't doubt it. He also possesses Psychometry. Or Force echoes. When he touches an object, he can see past events, and future ones. He got that from Elias and I. I can see the past, while Elias can see the future. Frost is good at both. He also senses emotions, but cannot project his own. We had some Jedi test him back on Coruscant. She was a personal friend of Leia's. Last name of Tano. Leia wanted her brother to test him, but he was away on some business. The Jedi wanted to test Elias and I, and we allowed some tests, but we elected to keep our Force abilities in combat to ourselves. Now when we get to Coruscant, we can look for your father in the old archives. And if Leia's brother is there, or the one she called Tano is there, we can have them look at your abilities."
Hiro nodded, yawning softly as he watched the child. “ is he the one who can take ships apart in seconds?”
Elias laughed as he reached to take his son from Winter so she could realign the ship’s flight path.
“Oh you have no idea. I can leave him alone for two seconds and some sensor goes off or a cubby door is mysteriously floating down the hall. Now kid, you’re obviously tired. We have a spare bunk in the back, next to Frost’s room. You can have it. Go make yourself at home. Fair warning though. You will probably have to sleep in a jacket. It always gets colder at night. Even on a spaceship.”
“Okay, that you,” he said and gave a soft smile. Hiro started to head that way, finally letting out a shiver when no one seen
Elias set Frost down and Frost took off running. Winter shouted back at him.
“Slow down son! You’re going to take Hiro out!”
All she heard was laughter and footsteps speeding up. Elias looked at Winter.
“You do know he gets this from you right? All that boundless energy.”
Hiro started bull face laughing after a few minutes, “I think you all lot something!” he called happily
Elias threw his hands up.
“Now the guest thinks we’re crazy. Great.”
Winter smirked and crossed her arms.
“Now that part is all you hun. Frost come here. Let Hiro go to bed. It’s almost time for you to go to bed too. As a matter of fact, why don’t we all go to sleep? Everyone has had a busy day.”
“He's fine ma’am, in fact, I think he's gotten a bit comfortable.” hiro said, watching the small boy at the side of his bed, making sure he didn't fall
Elias rolled his eyes.
"He's like that with everyone new. He wants to know exactly who they are, and what they do. I'm just going to pick him up and put him in his room. He's right beside you, in his room, but if you don't wake up naturally, you'll wake up with the feeling of being watched, and it's going to be Frost staring straight into your soul. He does this frequently with Winter and I, and it's enough to make us jump. Sleep well Hiro."
Hiro chuckles, playing the staring game with frost “ well then, ima just call you ghost then.”
Elias laughed.
“Ghost is one name. Winter usually calls him a gremlin or something I can’t repeat in front of Frost.”
Winter elbowed Elias and laughed.
“Oh hush. You’re making me seem like a bad parent. You know as well as I do he earned those names. He’s scared you more time than I can count. And you’ve never not cursed. I’m surprised Frost’s vocabulary isn’t nothing but curses by now.”
Hiro chuckled, lifting the blanket and inviting the kid into the bed. “ I wouldn't be surprised, a few curses were my first words. I had stubbed my pinky toe “
Winter rolled her eyes as she tucked Frost and Hiro in.
“Do not take that as an invitation Frost. No curses. And Hiro you’re brave. This bugger occasionally still wets the bed. But he’s gotten better at it. So you should be fine. If he does wet the bed, come get me or Elias. We’ll handle it. And get you some new clothes too. Goodnight you two. Sweet dreams.”
Hiro nodded, closing his eyes and getting comfortable.
Soon he fell asleep, and white clouds flowed from his mouth as he slept out the days emotions
After she had tucked the boys in, Winter headed to the room with Elias not far behind. They changed and got ready for bed. Once they were in bed, they got comfortable and fell into a pleasant sleep.
(what now? 😂)
(You can either wake up the next morning and have Frost staring in your soul or Winter and Elias are the first to wake up and they start making breakfast)
(I'm a go with frost) hiro was started awake by something unknown, he sat up and looked around the room quickly “?”
It had been a good night of sleep for Winter and Elias. However, Winter startled awake. She narrowed her eyes.
“Frost is awake. I can feel it.”