The Millennium Falcon- Tah'Nuhna- Sunday

[thatwaslucky]

The rest of the mission had gone smoothly enough at least, dropping off the last of the supplies on Tah'Nuhna and leaving some down time before Rey and Duke had to go to Fandom. And since Duke had had a normal person's reaction to getting caught in space battles (Rey used to have those!) and she wasn't just going to leave him to go train or whatever, this had all led to Finn telling them to head to the Falcon and he'd meet them there.

So Rey took a seat at the dejarik table, the faint sounds of Chewie banging away on something further away in the ship to repair some damage that was done yesterday ringing through the lounge, and said, "I have no idea what this is."


[For he who came with her!]

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[betterthanaplan]

“What what is?” Duke asked, sitting down next to her. “Because if you mean . . . literally any physical object in this room, I can’t help you.”

[thatwaslucky]

"Why Finn asked us to wait for him," Rey said. "Which objects are confusing?"

She could think of one, right in front of them.

[betterthanaplan]

“I mean, this is just a guess, but I’d say it’s because he wants to hang out with you,” Duke said, flashing her a knowing smile. “And, uh. Okay. For starters, why is this an electric table?”

[thatwaslucky]

"It's a dejarik table," she said, switching it on so he could watch the holographic pieces come up. "It's a game. I think it's like... what's it called, chess?"

[betterthanaplan]

“. . . Of course it is.” And of course the pieces looked like tiny monsters to him. “Do you play?”

[thatwaslucky]

"I've played once. Chewie beat me, very badly. I'm usually doing other things when I'm here," Rey explained. "Do you want to try?"

[betterthanaplan]

“Sure. So long as we’re not playing against Chewie.”

[thatwaslucky]

Rey paused to listen to the faint bangs. "He's busy. We'll see how much we can get through before Finn gets here," she said, before running through what she knew of the rules, which also might have been why she lost?

[betterthanaplan]

“Right. So. . . we make the holo-monsters beat each other up.” He shook his head. “This whole ship is like some trippy dream I had when I was ten.”

Which was a much nicer reminder of his childhood than he’d been getting for the last several days.

“Hey,” he said after a moment of experimenting with making the blades slug-thing move around. “Uh. Thanks, by the way.”

[thatwaslucky]

"What for?" Rey asked, moving a piece forward.

[betterthanaplan]

Duke hit the wrong button, and one of his pieces attacked another.

"I had kind of a rough week," he said with a shrug. "Getting out of Fandom to do something I know how to do? Was pretty much exactly what I needed this weekend."

[thatwaslucky]

"Thanks for coming," she said, tilting her head a little. "You okay?"

[betterthanaplan]

"I'm fine." Duke grimaced and held up his hand. "Ish. I just -- ran into someone who kind of threw me is all. So freaking out about a space battle made for a nice change."

[thatwaslucky]

"I'm sorry. Both for that part and the space battle," Rey said, wrinkling her nose a little.

[betterthanaplan]

"Do not apologize for the space battle," Duke said. "That was --" He let out a short laugh. "Terrifying. And so bizarre. And I'm going to get pretty drunk over it. But we got through it with just -- whatever Chewie's banging on over there, so -- I'm going to call it good."

[nothowtheforceworks]

"That sounded like a cue," Finn said, coming in with a bottle of something. "Poe's dealing with some stuff, but he knows someone who knows someone who knew this bottle."

[betterthanaplan]

"Friend of a friend of a friend's booze." Duke nodded approvingly. "Sounds like my kind of drink."

[nothowtheforceworks]

"Does it matter that I don't think this thing has ever had a label on it?" Finn asked, holding it up.

[betterthanaplan]

"That depends: is Poe the kind of guy who'd let you drink something that might make you blind?"

He was reasonably sure the answer would be 'no'. Mostly.

[nothowtheforceworks]

"No," Finn said, though Rey didn't look entirely sure. He set the bottle down on the board, disturbing one of the holograms. "Hold that."

He headed back to the galley.

[betterthanaplan]

Duke picked the bottle up to take a look. Not that he expected to at all recognize alcohol from a galaxy far far away.

"You don't have to drink it if you don't want to," he told Rey.

[thatwaslucky]

"I know," she told him. "I can at least try it. I'm a little curious if it's worse than hand sanitizer vodka."

[betterthanaplan]

Duke set the bottle back down on top of another of the holographic characters. "I hadn't thought of it that way, but so am I."

[nothowtheforceworks]

Finn returned a moment later with three metal cups, which he set in front of both of them before sliding into the seat on the other side of Rey, a little close because they were both similar that way. Then he picked up the bottle to pour a small amount in each cup, just in case this was a terrible mistake.

"Was it that bad that this was needed?"

[betterthanaplan]

"She's humoring me," Duke assured him. "Having my second ever space flight turn into a dogfight was a little . . . extra." He picked up one of the cups and gave it a sniff. "So that's potent."