he was near. xosad was a shitty agent -- or maybe it was simply her presence because he'd certainly managed to convince hadder before he'd gone to find her -- but she doesn't doubt cassian could have easily convinced the idealistic, hopeful boy that dreamed of being a pilot one day.
she's about to ask him what the kriff fulcrum means because xosad said that, too, but she had no clue what he meant, but he says tanith's name and jyn jumps, startled. how did he know-- oh right, she used tanith as an alias, more than once and on more than one planet before she discarded it for the next one.
she swallows instead, head bobbing in a nod. ] Yeah. They had a spare bedroom so Akshaya let me stay there. She was determined to ignore the Empire, convinced they would ignore us. They were giants and we were just ants, why would the giants pay attention to ants? Only made it easier for the giants to crush the anthill.
[ circles and swirls radiate out of the center of the mandala, like a black sun across the crimson lantern. she fights the urge to crumple it up and ignore this stupid holiday. ]
It started with storm troopers. They took over the diner, the refinery. The people... anyone that spoke up vanished so they stopped speaking up. They grounded the ships, but I decided that wasn't going to stop us. We planned to leave in the morning. Shift change, you know, everyone is distracted. Except they came looking, for me. I got out, barely, all I could see was the house burning behind me but then I heard them on the comm.
[ her lips lift in the briefest smile, as if remembering the elation and relief of hearing hadder's voice over the radio. it falls a moment later, remembering the rest. ] There were too many TIE fighters, but then the Alliance Y-wings came and... every shot was too close and I couldn't tell where the laser fire was even coming from. I barely had enough power to jump to hyperspace, but then a ship exploded behind me and gave me that last push.
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he was near. xosad was a shitty agent -- or maybe it was simply her presence because he'd certainly managed to convince hadder before he'd gone to find her -- but she doesn't doubt cassian could have easily convinced the idealistic, hopeful boy that dreamed of being a pilot one day.
she's about to ask him what the kriff fulcrum means because xosad said that, too, but she had no clue what he meant, but he says tanith's name and jyn jumps, startled. how did he know-- oh right, she used tanith as an alias, more than once and on more than one planet before she discarded it for the next one.
she swallows instead, head bobbing in a nod. ] Yeah. They had a spare bedroom so Akshaya let me stay there. She was determined to ignore the Empire, convinced they would ignore us. They were giants and we were just ants, why would the giants pay attention to ants? Only made it easier for the giants to crush the anthill.
[ circles and swirls radiate out of the center of the mandala, like a black sun across the crimson lantern. she fights the urge to crumple it up and ignore this stupid holiday. ]
It started with storm troopers. They took over the diner, the refinery. The people... anyone that spoke up vanished so they stopped speaking up. They grounded the ships, but I decided that wasn't going to stop us. We planned to leave in the morning. Shift change, you know, everyone is distracted. Except they came looking, for me. I got out, barely, all I could see was the house burning behind me but then I heard them on the comm.
[ her lips lift in the briefest smile, as if remembering the elation and relief of hearing hadder's voice over the radio. it falls a moment later, remembering the rest. ] There were too many TIE fighters, but then the Alliance Y-wings came and... every shot was too close and I couldn't tell where the laser fire was even coming from. I barely had enough power to jump to hyperspace, but then a ship exploded behind me and gave me that last push.
It was their ship.