Post-Relics of the Republic

[notallofus]

It's good to be home again, and, oddly enough, on the newly-repurposed Phoenix Home, too. Kanan feels less exposed, which he wasn't expecting. But support, back-up, and more people on the lookout for important resources means somewhat less scrambling, and the odds can be stacked a little higher before doom is a foregone conclusion.

He guesses, anyway. But --

But he also feels sick to his stomach. There are clones on board, and although they're older than the ones he saw last -- Grey and Styles, Soot and Big-Mouth -- but maybe that's what his soldiers -- his friends would have grown into, if they'd been given the chance. If they hadn't betrayed -- no, they'd been betrayed, no matter how it looked from the outside. If Rex is right . . .

It's so hard to hold onto that, though. Harder than he wants it to be. They're good men, Rex and Wolfe and Gregor, but they've got the faces of his nightmares, and that's . . .

Maybe if he gets out of his own head a little, maybe . . . maybe that'll make this better. Somehow. Which is why he pulls himself away from the mess and goes looking for Hera. She'll be on the Ghost, he knows, and --

And that's probably better for him, too. More hands always help turn a slapdash field repair into something that'll last.

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[for_everyone]

Hera is, in fact, on the Ghost. The repairs had been enough to get them out of the Seelos system, but if they don't want to be caught stranded again, they'll need to do more than a few hasty fixes. With most of the crew in their cabins or on Phoenix Home, she has stripped up some of the flooring, hunching over or climbing down among the ship's innerworkings and documenting what needs to be repaired - and what needs to be replaced.

Each part that she add makes Hera wince. What supplies they have are only growing fewer.

Chopper, much to his chagrin, has been drafted into this, and when Kanan comes upon them it will likely be to find Chopper blatting over an opened piece of the flooring, Hera's lekku just visible from where she has climbed down inside it.