Rey Skywalker (
thatwaslucky) wrote2020-09-20 07:56 am
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Minfar- Sunday
Rey had loved Minfar the last time she'd been here. She had not loved getting to the Zixon city. It was a trek through the jungle, sliding down into dark secret tunnels covered in color-changing bioluminescence, and watching for giant things that thought they were food.
But for as long as it was taking her, Summer, Rose and Chewie to get through it, it had been fairly quiet the whole way. Well, mostly. When they got to what looked like a bottomless pit, Chewie was ready to nope right out.
"It's fine," Rey told him. "There's a bridge, and we're almost there."
She pulled her staff loose so that she could tap the bridge, black rock that matched the walls so that it blended in perfectly, but the sound of metal clanking against rock proved that it was there. "I can even go first."
[For Summer!]
But for as long as it was taking her, Summer, Rose and Chewie to get through it, it had been fairly quiet the whole way. Well, mostly. When they got to what looked like a bottomless pit, Chewie was ready to nope right out.
"It's fine," Rey told him. "There's a bridge, and we're almost there."
She pulled her staff loose so that she could tap the bridge, black rock that matched the walls so that it blended in perfectly, but the sound of metal clanking against rock proved that it was there. "I can even go first."
[For Summer!]
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There was a lot of uphill, though! Like, even after Fandom's stairs, even after getting around on Ahch-To, this was the kind of trek that would make Rey's legs burn.
Then once they left the tunnel, it was a short walk through the jungle to another camouflaged tunnel, which required them to crouch to get into it. Chewie hated that one.
That tunnel led to the city. They were still underground, but there was an artificial sunlight streaming down from above the treetops. The Zixon city itself was a lot to take in: the houses and buildings were small, arranged seemingly at random, and sometimes stacked two or three on top of each other. Some incorporated the trees around them. The streets were small, not too unlike Fandom, just lined with green-furred aliens going about their days like anyone else.
"Welcome to the city," Rey said.
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She was mostly just relieved to hear those words and was very tempted to just slouch over and lean on Chewie for support. And thankfully for everyone involved there, she figured the climb might have made him just as sweaty as she was right now and...yeah.
"Ohmygod," she gushed, though she'd be willing to allow that this reaction may have been completely influenced by actually finally getting there. "This is great!"
She figured that would be marginally better than ohmygod, now where can we sit down?
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"They're very friendly," Rey told Summer. "They feed us and put us up in a house for the night."
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She laughed a little, and then just sort of reveled a little in the moment because, god, she missed this sort of thing. And she really felt like nothing would go horribly wrong with the Zixon, too, which was always in the back of her mind. Things always seemed to take a sharp turn for the worse on past exursions, but, well, she supposed it was easier to avoid that when your traveling companions weren't total major douchebags.
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And she loved that Rey loved them. She was starting to feel a little of that, too, especially if it turned out they knew how to party, and, ugh, this all just felt so good and right.
"Right?" she said emphatically. "And they so should. I'm really glad we could help."
And, yeah, yeah, the timelines were all wonky, probably, and different universes technically and all that, but, in a way, even if she didn't really, technically...she liked to think that, in a way, she already had. In spirit, at the very least.
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They were ushered to seating in a semicircle, where a few Zixon got to work immediately bringing them food in bowls and hot drinks, all cooked in front of them. And then the traditional dancing started, giving them a show while they ate.
"I do love seeing this," Rey admitted.
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"I really appreciate you bringing me along for this, Rey," she said, with a curious though tentative sip of the drinks they were brought, and a contented sort of sigh, because they still had everything else ahead of them to look forward to, too.
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"Some of them are fine!" Rose protested from where she totally wasn't listening.
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"Hopefully we'll have more coming up," she said. "The time difference works great for me but means there's a lot of time I'm not really needed for missions back here."