Syndulla Scrap, Friday

[futurespacemom]

Vette had done quite a bit of organizing yesterday, as well as, Hera was pleased to see, fixing some things.

So today, Hera was going through some of the newer things that hadn't been separated out yet, and making notes for her of anything useful that might help with those repairs.

At least those Chopper wasn't claiming for himself.

"There's no way that wheel will fit, Chop, and it's not very sturdy. Sorry, buddy."

It was a process.

The scrapyard was open!

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[mountaingorilla]

Kagura had been told that the scrapyard would be a place she should be able to find work.

So she decided to just walk in and declare to the first person she saw, who happened to be Hera, "I was promised work here."

She was putting on a smile and trying to seem very employable.

[futurespacemom]

"Were you?" Hera asked, amused. "And what would you be doing?"

[mountaingorilla]

"Odd jobs," Kagura replied. "I can lift things, deliver things, beat people up who don't pay, but only if they're jerks, all sorts of things!"

[futurespacemom]

"We generally try not to beat people up, but other than that, it sounds good." She held out her hand. "I'm Hera."

[mountaingorilla]

"Kagura," she introduced, shaking Hera's hand. "I can probably get Sadaharu to help out too, but he has a mind of his own."

She looked behind her, expecting a giant dog.

It was not there.

"...like how he didn't follow me here."

[futurespacemom]

"Sadaharu?" Hera asked, curious.

[mountaingorilla]

"My dog," Kagura said. "He's probably off chasing bugs, but he's useful, honest."

A pause.

"You're not related to the lime guy at the forge, are you?"

[futurespacemom]

"Lime guy at the forge?" Hera frowned, confused. "I'm not related to anybody here that I know of."

[mountaingorilla]

"I didn't think so, on account of the tentacles," Kagura said, gesturing at Hera's head. "Also because you're much nicer than him."

[futurespacemom]

Hera bit back a sigh and reminded herself that people from other worlds didn't know. "They're lekku, not tentacles.

"If you're looking for a job, I've got a few days free. The work is mostly categorizing and separating parts into piles, sorting out anything that's useful or dangerous, and taking inventory. Helping anyone who comes looking for something.

"If anyone comes by needing a landing pad," she waved toward the ships, "there's paperwork to fill out. And keep an eye on those little guys." She pointed at the pen of...well, mostly non-bitey bits today, lying inert in the sun, though one was gnawing on the fence and another was gnawing on the first one.

"Think you can handle that?"

[mountaingorilla]

"I only have to work one day a week?" Kagura said, latching mainly onto that.

Then she looked at the pen.

"What are they?"

[futurespacemom]

"You can work more if you want, but most students seem to take just one day. At least per job." She shrugged. "Nobody knows what they are, but they're here and they seem to be sort of alive, so we're taking care of them. Do not let them out of the pen without asking me first. They still have a tendency to bite."

[mountaingorilla]

"I can do that," Kagura said. "I can work more, too, but I can take a day if that's normal. I'll leave the weird things in the pen, promise."

She wasn't about to go messing with bitey things that weren't Sadaharu.

[futurespacemom]

"Sounds good." Hera nodded. "Thursdays and Fridays are taken, but you're welcome to any other day you like."

[mountaingorilla]

"Tuesday," Kagura said, after thinking it over. "Since I have classes other days."

She smiled. "You won't regret this, I promise."

[futurespacemom]

"Tuesday works," Hera agreed. She was sure she wouldn't regret it - there wasn't much that could go wrong when your product was already scrap.

"So where are you from, Kagura?"

[mountaingorilla]

"I'm a Yato," Kagura said. "So not really 'from' anywhere special. Just a rainy awful planet we ended up on. Though the clouds were useful."

She fiddled with her parasol a bit. "Just another Amanto trying to make do on earth, like you."

[futurespacemom]

"Amanto is anyone not human?" Hera guessed. "Or just anyone not from Earth?"

[mountaingorilla]

Kagur nodded. "Yeah. All of us from space," she said. "No one's called you Amanto before?"

[futurespacemom]

Hera shook her head. "It's not a word I've heard before, though my galaxy has a lot of languages, so I might just not have come across it. Here they say 'alien'. Back home I'm just a twi'lek. There's no special word for non-human species. Not if you're being polite."

[mountaingorilla]

Kagura shrugged. "They use that sometimes too, but usually for those who can't talk," she said. "Twi'lek, got it. Better than it could have been."

There were literally Amanto that were just 'Dog Tribe'.

They had dog heads.

[futurespacemom]

"I suppose so." That was an odd thing to say, but most species in Hera's world went by their own words. When people were being polite.

"Are amanto on your world normal, then? The Earth across the causeway has never seen aliens, apparently."

[mountaingorilla]

"I mean, they did kind of conquer it," Kagura said with a shrug. "Not the Yato, though. Other ones."

[futurespacemom]

"That would do it," Hera agreed. "The Yato came later?"

[mountaingorilla]

Kagura shrugged. "Just me, really," she said. "Until my Pops decided I should go to school instead, which is really funny when he wasn't there to stop me going to Earth in the first place."

[futurespacemom]

"Well...welcome to Fandom?" Hera said awkwardly. She really had no idea what to say when people brought up fathers.

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine had some statues to finish up.

Statues that, if you were looking at the right, were definitely Chopper-themed, using elements of his design. They were in different colors, though, because Sabine was making her case on getting to paint him sometime.

"Hey, guys," she greeted them.

[futurespacemom]

"Hi," Hera said, waving. Chopper blatted something that was more or less a decent greeting. "How was your break?"

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Boring and extremely quiet," she replied, shrugging. "This week is better. How was yours?"

[futurespacemom]

"Pretty much the same," Hera confessed. "Everyone was on vacation here, and I couldn't find any jobs back home, so it was really quiet."

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Not sure I like that." She didn't mind being on her own, but she was used to some activity. "How often are you able to get jobs at home?"

[futurespacemom]

"Fairly often," Hera said. "I've got a few contacts that I can look to for what needs to be done. I keep my eyes open for anything else that comes around." She gave a chagrined smile. "There's nearly always something to do."

The Empire being what it was.

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Good when you're bored, bad that someone has to do it at all," Sabine guessed.

[futurespacemom]

Hera nodded in agreement. "That's about the size of it."

She gave Sabine an assessing look. "Kanan said you might want to come with us and help out?"

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"It's come up," Sabine said, because she was playing it cool in case things didn't work out. "I hear you could use a demolitions expert sometimes."

[futurespacemom]

"Well, we generally try to avoid needing demolitions," Hera said wryly. "Then again, we haven't had anyone who could do them well, so I haven't been looking for jobs that required much. How much were you looking to do?"

[seriesofbaddecisions]

She hadn't really considered that question before, but said, "Whatever's needed, really. I'm pretty adaptable."

[futurespacemom]

"Is it.." Hera tried to think of a way to frame it. "Are you looking to hurt the Empire and bring it down someday, or do you just want a job that uses your skills? I can work with either," she explained, "but I need to know what kind of commitment you're looking at."

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"I want to make them hurt," she said, seriously.

She had a lot of reasons.

[futurespacemom]

Hera nodded. Most people's reasons were their own. "I can definitely work with that. How much advance notice do you need for a job?

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"I'd need time to get to my warehouse, that's about it. I keep everything stocked up and ready just in case something goes insane here anyway." Things you learned from snow monsters!

[futurespacemom]

Hera nodded. "I can definitely work with that. I'll let you know the next time I find something."

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Thanks," she said, and tilted her head. "Does it feel as cathartic as it sounds?"

[futurespacemom]

"Sometimes," Hera said. "Mostly it just feels...right."

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"That's encouraging," Sabine said thoughtfully.

[futurespacemom]

"We'll see if it feels the same for you," Hera said. "But for me it does."

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"I'm looking forward to finding out."

It was entirely possible Sabine hadn't realized how much she wanted to hit them back until it looked like a thing she could actually do.