Kanan and Hera's apartment, Saturday morning.

[futurespacemom]

Hera woke up...without Kanan's hair tickling the back of her neck, which was unusual. She rolled over, and her eyes went wide. She crawled the few feet over to Kanan and shook his shoulder. "Kanan. The island's at it again."

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[futurespacemom]

"That's a good start," Hera agreed. She walked to the edge of the bed and looked down, then sat and grabbed hold of the covers to climb down.

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan just kind of laughed a little and stepped up to the side of the bed.

"Hey, I have two much faster ways of doing that, if you want to try something crazy," he offered.

Because, hey, Kanan was good at suggesting crazy.

[futurespacemom]

"If one of them's falling, I've already thought of it," Hera said. "Climbing seemed better. How crazy are we talking?"

[uncertain_dume]

"Well, you could hang on and I could just make that jump," Kanan offered. "Or..."

Was he looking at the sleeping dog and smirking? Yes. Yes he was.

[futurespacemom]

"Or?" Hera prompted.

[uncertain_dume]

"Ever wonder how riding a giant canine compares to riding a blurrg?"

It would be important practice for the future!

[futurespacemom]

"Not really," Hera answered, shaking her head. "But if you think Stance is up for it, we could give it a try. It'd probably be faster than trying to get anywhere on our own."

[uncertain_dume]

"That's what I was thinking," Kanan agreed with a grin. "Worst case scenario, he takes off like a rocket and we're holding on for dear life. Sounds like fun to me."

Kanan sometimes had a very skewed sense of fun.

[futurespacemom]

"Sounds like fun," Hera agreed. Because sometimes so did she. "Just remember I can't exactly steer a canine."

[uncertain_dume]

"Let me worry about steering," Kanan replied, making the trek across the bed toward Stance. "Hey, buddy," and now he was closing his eyes and holding out a hand. "Rise and shine, big guy."

Stance's ears perked a little and his tail gave a (slightly dangerous) thump against the bed.

[futurespacemom]

Hera eyed that tail warily and stepped a little closer to Kanan, letting him do his thing.

[uncertain_dume]

"Ssh, ssh, buddy," Kanan soothed. "Easy. We're going to need a lift. Can you do that for us?"

Stance cracked open one eye. And then the other. And then craned his head to peer at them both curiously.

His nose was half as tall as either of them.

[futurespacemom]

Hera reached out and patted an ear. "Good boy. We're still us, you know. You know Kanan."

[uncertain_dume]

Stance gave a small 'whuff' of agreement, lowering his head down to rest his chin on the bed for them.

"... Well, that's some breath, buddy."

Was Kanan going to have to start brushing his dog's teeth? He was starting to consider brushing his dog's teeth.

Either way, at the moment, he was just shaking his head and giving the smallest suggestion to the dog through the Force. Him and Hera, sitting on his back? They were small and slow, he was fast and tall. Then they could figure out breakfast, right?

That tail started going a little more excitedly at the thought.

[futurespacemom]

"Um...Kanan?" Hera was still eyeing that tail warily. "Maybe try for cooperation without so much excitement."

[uncertain_dume]

"Right, right, less excitement," Kanan murmured, and sent Stance a soft indication that maybe he'd want to take it easy with that tail if he didn't want a squished Hera. Stance whined a little, and then ever so carefully scooted his butt away so that his tail was aimed elsewhere. And then he set his nose back down on the bed. "And I think that's an invite to climb aboard. Ladies first?"

[futurespacemom]

Hera grinned and rolled her eyes at him.

"Thank you, Stance." She patted his nose and gave it a kiss before climbing up as gently as she could.

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan smiled and shrugged before following Hera on up.

"I can honestly say," Kanan mused, "this is not a position I had ever figured I'd be looking out at the world from. Whenever you're ready? You might want to find something to hang on to."

[futurespacemom]

Hera nodded and grabbed hold of handfuls of hair, sitting and bracing herself.

[uncertain_dume]

"And away," Kanan gave Stance a pat on the head as he settled himself in, too, "we go."

Stance was on his feet and bounding off the bed pretty much immediately, at that, as carefully as he possibly could, all things considered. Was he making his way directly to the kitchen? Absolutely he was.

[futurespacemom]

Hera caught her breath as they left the bed, but she kept her grip and it was kind of like riding on a huge bantha. Not that she'd ever done that, but people did, right?

The speed was fun; the up and down took a bit more getting used to.