The streams are now crossed

[youwillbe]

It would be easy to miss Yoda's presence. He is, after all, only 0.6 meters tall. People have to look down to spot him.

Of course, to anyone who does look down, he's rather unique looking. Small. Green. Wrinkly. And, for some reason, dressed in the sort of sailor suit a toddler might have worn in the 1920s. Zelien had been hard on clothing, and for someone his size, replacements were... ecclectic.

This wasn't the swamp. After the business in Zelien, Yoda was expecting to finally be back in the swamp and spending a few years contemplating everything.

It seemed the Force had other ideas though. Except... something is wrong here. He stumbles slightly as he steps forward. "Quiet here, the Force is."

And without that connection to the Force, he really remembers that he is 881 years old. And that's hard on any body.

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[youwillbe]

Yoda manages a slight smile. THey didn't know each other well, but they'd met in Zelien. And that really just raises further questions. "Expect to be here, I did not. To the swamp I was returning."

It doesn't occur to him that she wouldn't recognize him. He just hasn't learned enough yet.

[ethnobotany]

Well, that answers the question of whether or not he remembers her. She will assume he does. "You're on the starship Enterprise, in a version of my universe, so I can help you get settled. I know it's an adjustment to make, going from Zelien to this." But she really is one of the best people he could have run into.

[youwillbe]

"Nothing but adjustments, life has been of late." Five years was of late, right? That still counted? It did from his point of view, anyway.

"A nice change it will be, to speak with the natives." After Zelien. Of course.

[ethnobotany]

That totally still counts. Beverly feels that herself. The last five years have involved her son leaving and that's something she still struggles with on occasion.

"There was a timeline divergence here about a year or so ago, making this reality different from my own. The basics are still the same." So she knows enough to manage and help someone else manage as well. "The short of it is that we've apparently been brought here by a being called Q. I'm not sure what his purpose is other than to play games with the Enterprise again, but none of us are supposed to be here."

That includes Beverly herself. For the observant people like Yoda, as other Starfleet personnel pass by, it will become increasingly obvious that for a "native" person, she's not even wearing the right uniform.