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"Regent-Administrator," Ben began, "as far as representation in the Galactic Senate, I know just the person to recommend." /4
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"delicate situation in which you find yourself and your need to maintain a low profile. At the same time, the people who have chosen to make their lives here deserve to be led, to be represented by someone who understands their history and challenges."
Rey squeezed Ben's hand. 3/
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mother around at some gathering or other. "You can't call me that, Administrator Valmor -- it'll only bring trouble --"
And Eglyn Valmor sighed. "Captain Solo, then. Whether you wish it or not, everyone living on this station thinks of you as their Prince. I understand the 2/
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The Regent-Administrator smiled faintly at Ben, sitting ramrod-straight in his seat at the conference table. "I'm an old woman, Young Master Ben --"
He bristled at the moniker, barely remembering the last time she called him that, a tiny shadow following his Senator 1/
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#BLBWrites squeeze her shoulder affectionately. “It’s admirable that you are ready to stand up to bullies. But it’s not always appropriate to meet injustice with violence.”
And Rey’s eyes flash, cutting through to his very soul. “So you say, -Captain Hux-.”
Armitage sighs. /5
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#BLBWrites across the Great Sea, which she had refused to let him replace with a fine leather school bag like the one he had carried as a child. “So you rallied around your friend, is that it?”
Rey gives a barely perceptible nod of the head.
“Little one,” he says quietly, reaching out to 4/
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#BLBWrites morning. “Tell me what happened.”
Rey scowls furiously. “One of the girls from Miss Nu’s upper class was making fun of Teng Malar’s things. They may not be new or expensive, but they’re not JUNK—“
And Armitage thinks of the worn satchel in which Rey had carried her meager possessions 3/
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#BLBWrites wildcat attack. Knowing what Mother Maz has told him of young girls’ behavior during this turbulent age, Armitage supposes it’s not far from the mark.
He looks up into Rey’s face from where he’s knelt by the chair, and he can see that she will likely have an impressive shiner by 2/
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Eleven-year old Rey sits at the small dining table in the rooms she shares with Captain Hux, newly commissioned with the Capital regiment. Her arms are crossed over her chest, and the pretty calico lawn dress that was new JUST LAST WEEK looks like it barely survived a 1/
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#BLBWrites #TBTIECFic was Ben now, in her own mind at least, and Mother Maz’s ideas of propriety could hang) orchards would be happy for the rain. /3
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with a sigh. Her preternaturally acute hearing would not help her find food today, and she hadn’t known to bring an oilskin jacket with her this morning; the horizon had been clear when she set out.
She clambered down from her perch, thinking that at least Ben’s (and he 2/
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#BLBWrites #TBTIECFic A rustle.
Rey opened her eyes and looked down from her perch in the tree, scanning the forest floor silently for the source of the noise while her hands secured the rifle in her grasp.
Then a stampede of droplets hitting the leafy canopy above had her gazing upward 1/
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goods in case we end up with more guests than anticipated.) I worry for folks like Missus Lintra - now that Mr. Lintra took ill, she is making ends meet under her own power only. 3/ #BLBWrites
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to play the pianoforte or harp. The folks in Fort Espa don’t need such diversions; they need a steady supply of food to get through the winter. (Before you ask: Mother Maz and I are doing ~fine~; the boarding-house brings in a steady revenue, and Maz always has a reserve of tinned 2/ #BLBWrites
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Major Armitage Hux
First Capital Regiment
The Front
May 31, 186-
Dear Taj,
Two weeks ago, I sat for the Espa Upper School terminal exams. Today we received word that I passed.
I wish that I felt more useful for knowing about Alderaanian or Chandrilan literature or how 1/
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And I don’t know what to do.”
Rey’s response was immediate, bold, resolute. “Come live with me on mine.” /5 #BLBWrites
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puddling in her gut, and she reached for his hand, rules of courtship be damned. “Ben, what’s wrong?”
Ben exhaled. “I received a letter today. In accordance with the terms of the treaty with the Tusken and Gungan Nations, the program for veterans to receive a land claim is ending. 4/ #BLBWrites
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wish it, I would be glad to accompany you.”
The couple relocated to the front parlor. Rey’s eyes went wide as instead of sitting down in the chair opposite the settee in the corner, Ben instead eased down onto the cushion beside her. A vague feeling of dread rushed through her, 3/ #BLBWrites
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once the meal was over that Rey caught his eye. “Sit a while, Captain Solo?” she asked directly, steeling herself for anger or, worse, ambivalence.
But he surprised her with an attempt at a smile. “I’m not fit for company today — forgive me, Miss Niima — but yes, of course, if you 2/ #BLBWrites
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Ben had been unusually silent all during dinner, staring at his plate of food like it had insulted his parentage. Conversation had flowed around them in the dining room at Whispering Winds, but Rey’s mind had been on Ben, and Ben’s mind had been … elsewhere.
It was only 1/
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blood on his lips, he whispered “Don’t let them forget me, Captain.”
“Never, Dan,” Ben vowed solemnly. He knelt there until Eternity took his soldier’s last rattling breath, and stood up on aching knees with a sore heart.
This damnable war. /2 #BLBWrites
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Sergeant Forrest was a fine soldier and a good man. He had spoken fondly with Ben about his family several times over a warm fire in camp at evening chow.
But now Ben was holding the good sergeant’s hand as he lay in the mud, felled by a Hutt bullet to the abdomen. With 1/
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For my skyfrens not here for my Reylo skywriting, I will be tagging each post in a drabble with #BLBWrites, so that you can mute all future posts. Do so with my blessing 💙
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entrusted your care to me, and I believe in the value of educating bright young women, JUST AS HE DOES.”
Rey looked at her ink-stained fingers and sighed. /5 #BLBWrites
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fine dots to spatter onto the half-filled sheet. “Why do I have to go to school?” she complained. “I would be more help for you here at the boarding-house, or I could be down at Nunb’s farm.”
Maz looked sternly at Rey over her copy of the Espa City Record. “Because Lieutenant Hux 4/ #BLBWrites
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I must thank you for the good pen you bought me when I started school in Hanna City. Here everyone writes with quill pens or pencils. My teacher said it’s a fine instrument. I felt good when she said that, like I was special —
Rey set the pen down forcefully, causing a sprinkle of 3/ #BLBWrites
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anxiously to receive your post.
I am glad you liked your holiday parcel. I hope the mittens fit and are not too lumpy. Maz says I need to work on something called tension. We have enough of that with you being away at the front.
Maz enrolled me in school in Espa City after new year.
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1st Lieut. Armitage Hux
First Capital Regiment
The Front
Dear Taj,
Maz and I received your letter of January 25th. We were very glad to get it; news of your regiment’s participation in the battle at A— reached the Espa City news three weeks ago, and we waited most 1/
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into Rey’s hand and said “here, give them that.”
The young woman with the harmonica accepted them with effusive thanks, and the singers blew their audience kisses before ambling down the street to the next house. Leia closed the door, then drew Ben and Rey into her arms. /5 #TBTIECfic #BLBWrites
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making?”
Rey smiled softly to herself as the sound of precise snip-snips filled the air. “The Huxes are hosting us for a Thanksgiving dinner. I’m baking a gingerbread for dessert.” /7 #TBTIECfic #BLBWrites
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