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On one hot July evening, after the Huxes, Captain Solo, and Rey had finished their customary Sunday dinner, Rose insisted that all follow her into their kitchen. There on the counter sat a nondescript wooden pail.
“Armie. Captain. If you would go down to “ 1/x
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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/
#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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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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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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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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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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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/
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
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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Mother Maz and Rey made for a somber traveling party as the locomotive powered the train across the plains toward the high country.
They could not wait for a letter to reach Armitage at the front and for a reply to be received in Hanna City; the physician in charge of Maz’s 1/
She sprinkled the crushed thyme over the fillet and added a knob of butter, before settling the lid of the cast iron baking dish with a dull THUNK. /4 #BlueWrites #TBTIECfic
everything she could ever need—until a dark-haired Army captain walked into her brother’s post office one morning and turned her world upside down. 4/4 #BlueWrites #TBTIECfic #ReyloMicrofic
He could not risk his old demons coming back to haunt him and having a deleterious effect on the health and well-being of Missus Hux and their child.
He needed to find his own lodgings or a physically demanding livelihood that would keep the night terrors at bay. Or both. /2
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