Tionne was busy in the library, a huge room that was only half filled with datacards, holocrons and other documents. There was enough space left to have generations of Jedi collect knowledge.

"Hi, Tionne," Kyp greeted her, making his way though the shelves.

"Why, hello, Kyp," she replied, obviously surprised to see him. "And that is?"

"Her name is Chii," Kyp said, shoving the girl towards the librarian.

"Hello," Chii said, taking Tionne's hand and shaking it vigorously.

The surprised Rindaoan offered no resistance, while her hand was thus commandeered. "Hello Chii. How did you come here?"

"Chii with Kyp, Kyp not killjoy," Chii explained, still shaking Tionne's hand.

"You can stop shaking her hand now," Kyp whispered urgently.

Immediately, the girl let go of Tionne's hand. "Chii say 'hello.' Now Chii normal and Kyp happy." The girl beamed.

"Is that so?" Tionne laughed. Though Kyp's expression looked more like suppressed exasperation and embarrassment than happiness. "I am sure he is happy to have you around then."

Chii looked towards Kyp expectantly, and could have looked for a long time, if the Rindaoan had not cast a stern look at the young man.

"Yes, yes, of course I am."

Chii looked around estimatingly, then hugged Kyp with a calculated jump. "Chii!"

"She's cute, if not the brightest," Tionne observed, while Kyp pried the girl off again.

"Tell me about it," he replied. "This is just why I need your help." He set Chii down again, and looked at Tionne. "She needs to be taught, and you are the best teacher we have."

Tionne measured Chii. "Are you sure you don't just try to dump some work on me?" she asked raising a brow. "Master Sykwalker told me that you might show up with just that request."

"Um, ah, well, I did not mean, all the time, of course, you know," Kyp back paddled. "It's just - she follows me everywhere and I think I need a break every now and then."

"And you thought that I could just do your job then?" Tionne watched his reactions closely.

"I did think, it would be a much better idea than tie her to heater in my room, yes." Kyp fiddled with his bangs. "And then there is also girl stuff I do not want to have to explain."

Tionne laughed, shaking her head. "Incredible, Durron. But she's such an irresistible cutie. So I will do some babysitting for you."

"Thank you, Tionne, I promise not to dump her here too often."

"Oh, I will see to that, don't worry. So Chii, what do you want to learn?"

"Chii learn?" She asked, looking from Kyp to Tionne and back.

"It would make me happy," Kyp replied smugly.

"Then Chii learn. Chii be normal." She nodded happily.

"I see." Tionne turned to face Kyp. "And you almost managed to teach her, how to say 'hello', too."

Kyp fidgeted.

"Don't worry, Kyp, I'll do it. But you will have to do something for me, too."

"Whatever," he burst out unthinking.

"I will see about that later," Tionne laughed. "But there is always something to be done in the archives. I'll let you know."

"Sure," Kyp agreed. "I'll go and train with Ganner now. Our last session, well," he glanced at Chii, "some problems turned up."

"I see. Your people skills are amazing."

"Chii do something, too." The girl suddenly volunteered.

"I'm sure we'll find something," Tionne replied, before Kyp could say anything. "There must be many things you are good at."

"Chii good at learning from Kyp," the girl offered promptly.

"Now that is good to hear," Tionne said encouragingly.

"I'll be back later then," Kyp said hurriedly. "Bye."

He did not get out of the door, though, before Chii had caught up and took a firm hold of his hand. "Good bye," she said shaking it heartily.

"Goodbye, Chii," Kyp ground out. "You can stop shaking now."

Immediately, Chii stopped shaking his hand.

I'll have to do something about that, Kyp mused as he left. Maybe telling her to shake the hand only twice, though, if somebody else shook more often, that would cause only more problems. There had to be an intelligent solution for this.