Syndulla Scrap, Friday

[futurespacemom]

That fish was back. Kanan had taken it to the Earth's moon, and it had still somehow found its way back.

Hera was sympathetic, she really was. She also needed sleep. So she was staying in the Ghost until that thing was gone. She'd brought Stance, too; Chopper seemed to get along with him, and he deserved a break, too.

This morning, she was out in the scrapyard tossing a toy for him. Chopper was helping by grabbing it first and dangling it by him and getting chased around.

Hey, whatever kept the two of them busy and happy.

The junkyard was open!

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When Sabine was bored, she headed here, apparently.

"You have a colorful friend," Sabine said approvingly.

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Hera looked up and smiled. "Sabine, hi. This is Stance, Kanan's...well, apparently it's a local dog?" It didn't look much like a dog.

"I'm taking care of him while Kanan is stuck with that fish."

Evil thing.

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"Yeah, he brought it to class. Looked better when I painted it," she said, since that was her real problem with the fish. "Are dogs rainbow here?"

If so, this place just got better.

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"I think they're supposed to not usually be so bright?" Hera said. "They're all sort of shaped more like wolves than dogs back home, though. Stance! Chopper, leave off! Here, Stance!"

With Chopper grumbling but not playing anymore, Stance galloped Hera's way, and she braced herself for the incoming tongue, laughing. "Say hello, but watch out for the slobber."

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"He's fine," Sabine assured her, reaching to pet him. "He's a friendly guy, huh? Even gets along with Chopper."

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"I think it's mostly 'doesn't let Chopper get to him'," Hera confessed, "and Chopper doesn't know what to do with that. But Chop did save him from a shark when it came through the window."

Chopper was a grump, but Chopper knew family.

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"Oh. That's a...?" Yeah, she'd definitely heard that right. "Is that a thing that happens often here?"

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"Just the once, thankfully," Hera said. "There was some sort of weather disturbance that picked them up and threw them around." She shook her head. "No idea how that worked."

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"Okay, good," Sabine said, frowning. "I like to think I'm pretty prepared for this place but I just... don't want to prepare for that one."

She had limits. One limit was sharks in her room.

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"Yeah, no," Hera agreed. "Not that there's much you could do but replace the glass window with transparisteel. Which, if you want to do that, we can look for a piece."

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"It's a good idea, but I'd probably have to check with my roommate first," Sabine told her. "She's been really great about letting me paint over everything but if she walked in while I was pulling a window out, she might have questions."

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Hera shrugged. "Let me know. It's not like this stuff is going anywhere, most of it."

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"Which is great for those of us who end up needing parts for their equipment all the time." Which, as far as Sabine knew, might just be her. It felt like it should be a lot, anyway.

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Eh, not only her.

"That's what this place is for," Hera said, shrugging.

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"And I'm assuming there's nothing here that would take out the fish," she said.

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"Not that we've found yet," Hera said. "Then again, we haven't shot it with a laser cannon yet."

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"It is an option," Sabine said, considering it. "I don't think it would work, but it could be cathartic."

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"Don't think I haven't considered it," Hera said wryly. "But with all the other things that haven't worked, I'm a little concerned what might happen."

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"On the plus side, it's probably not worse than the time it got set on fire."

Was that really a plus? When you got right down to it?

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"What happened that time?" Hera asked.

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"It didn't backfire or anything- I think- but it got set on fire and sunk into one of the bodies of water around here and that thing came back anyway."

Her roommate gave fish Viking funerals and Sabine blew things up as a professional hobby. That room, seriously.

"I'm pretty sure if anything was really going to backfire, it'd be that."

She was still new.

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"Kanan shoved it in the freezer, and it followed him home from the moon's orbit," Hera said. "We still don't know how."

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Sabine frowned.

"Part of me wants to try taking it apart, but I think that would be worse than setting it on fire," she admitted.

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"I have no idea," Hera confessed. "At this point, I mostly just want to stay away from it until Skywalker calls it back next week."