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bb!dz

What a day it's been. That's to be expected, sometimes, when one's master is a Sith, but even then, watching her go from barely responsive to a clinging, sobbing breakdown, then speaking, when she hasn't spoken an unscripted word in the year she's known her and hasn't spoken at all in well over a month, and then going off to kill her master, possibly killing Lord Grauzatis as well, and adding most of his prisoners to the escape plan? Even for a Sith, that's not your average day, in any sense.

And now here they are, making their way out of the system on sublight drive. Daisy - she's Daisy, now, that was the promise, that when they escaped they would both get new names - hasn't been given any orders, has barely been spoken to, and might not be. It's up to her to figure out what to do next, despite the fact that she's just a servant droid, and anyone else on the ship would be more qualified. Deskyl - Lord Pradnakt, now - trusts her, would be upset if she surrendered the responsibility to anyone else.

They clearly need medical attention. All of them, really, even Pradnakt, at least enough to ensure that there's nothing medically wrong with her. That's the first thing Daisy takes care of, searching the ship's database for the best medical facility not run by the Empire that they can get to overnight and setting them on course for it. Then she checks on the passengers: the hooded woman is where Pradnakt left her, the man with the prosthetics has claimed one cabin, and the two remaining women are settling into another. She offers them food and painkillers from the ship's stores and leaves them to it, going back to check on the hooded woman. She's unresponsive, but the code to the hood's lock is in Daisy's databank without any warnings or special instructions, so she goes ahead and takes it off, dims the room and waits for a dose of painkiller to set in before removing the blindfold and earplugs underneath, and feeds her half a serving of mush made from the blandest of the emergency rations.

Then, with everything as well taken care of as it can be for now, she goes to check on her master.

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to better see the light

She resists him, for a moment, but it's not hard to throw her off. She responds with a grin and a wave of affection.

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iamnotrighthanded

She's proud of him.

For a minute that's the only thing in the world that matters.

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iamnotrighthanded

wonder how long it'll take me to do this all the time.

to better see the light

You'll have most of it by the end of the day, I bet. Really getting it down, so you do it even in your sleep, that'll take longer, but the bond is helping you out - couple weeks, maybe a month?

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iamnotrighthanded

So, in a month – at most – they'll be protected even while they're sleeping. He'll be hard to hold onto. Will it wake them if someone tries to grab them anyway?

Not that that keeps them safe if they're attacked in some other way. But she has her senses. And he can share them. Even if it's just one of them in one place – not that they'll ever sleep separately if they can avoid it...

They have to be harder to hurt.

to better see the light

She scoots over and scoops him onto her lap. My danger sense covers both of us, now, you know. I'll still teach you, of course - precog is good to know how to do anyway - but we're not vulnerable like that.

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iamnotrighthanded

And that'll wake them up. They remember that much.

They're not safe – nobody is ever safe, really – but maybe they're close enough.

to better see the light

She gives him a squeeze. No Sith here, love. And nobody else can touch us.

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iamnotrighthanded

no sith yet.

to better see the light

She sighs, settles him more comfortably on her lap, and sinks into a trance, looking forward through time.

to better see the light

Nothing, nothing, nothing...

not nothing.

Not yet, yeah. A couple weeks. Squeeze.

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iamnotrighthanded

Oh.

That's...faster than he expected.

are we going to be ready?

to better see the light

We shouldn't hang around to find out. Get your arm, swap ships, get out.

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iamnotrighthanded

Okay. They can do that. They won't be here for Him to find.

do we warn them? the people here?

to better see the light

Tell Deyne, yeah. We need to talk to him about Mabbet, anyway.

She scoops him up and stands, gives the medicine ball a kick back toward its rack. Anything else?

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iamnotrighthanded

can't think of anything.

It's hard to focus on anything else, now, anyway.

to better see the light

Okay. She sets him on his feet, hugging him to herself with an arm around his waist, and clicks her tongue to get Daisy's attention, having momentarily forgotten that she can speak.

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iamnotrighthanded

Well. He hasn't forgotten.

"He's coming. We have to get ready to go."

bb!dz

"Oh dear."

to better see the light

- right, speaking. "Couple weeks, little less. We have time to swap the ship."

bb!dz

"Yes Ma'am. Shall I go get started on that?"

to better see the light

Such a good droid. "Yeah. Something small. Nice to live in."

bb!dz

"Yes Ma'am."

Her route follows theirs, for the first leg, and she keeps pace, quietly.

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iamnotrighthanded

"Do you think they're going to be safe?"

It's a stupid question. Of course they aren't.

to better see the light