"He's got a certain je ne sais quoi?" Joy supplied. "Funny how that expression can be literally translated as 'I don't know what.'" She grinned. Joe had only recently figured out that yes she did understand him when he babbled in French, and that no he couldn't use it to talk over her head when he was upsetting her without her catching on. "But I think you're right. Ted seems to be doing a good job of balancing the power with the responsibility."
Obviously, Joy admired him a lot, and even Yoda was proud to see Anakin's redemption in force, so to speak. Heck, if things hadn't worked out so well with Joe, she could easily imagine herself giving Yoda a whole new flavor of awkward, pursuing that little crush. But it wasn't really a thought that she entertained.
"You mean you didn't hear about that escapade?!" The snarky blond padawan laughed out loud at Laura's reaction to the mention of farm animals. "You know he asked me to mindmeld, right? Well, I said yes, but then he was all paranoid about hurting, because of the emotional transference involved, and instead of frakking talking to me he up and decides to do a test-run on some poor heifer out at Kaleigh/Kirk chick's old ranch! And then he spent the next week freaking out about what might happen if poor Bessie was ever turned into hamburger! He was only mildly comforted by the fact that Bessie will grow up to be a milk cow. I told him he should be glad he didn't try it on a steer, or he would have to suffer through the memory of castration and a future in the fast food industry!"
She sighed, trying to catch her breath. "I'm so mean. I know. But then I got him a cat to bond with, and the whole cow thing seemed to blow over. So yeah. Good times. I offered to donate my brother to science fiction, but still have no idea when Joe is actually going to try to mindmeld with a human."