a (very decidedly ex) stormtrooper falls on Xena
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Defecting with the prisoner - Poe Dameron, he killed Slip, he killed so many other stormtroopers but he's against the First Order and he's a pilot and SN-2187 can't fly worth a damn, and she needs to get out, knows they're going to crack down on her for refusing to fire on the villagers, knows she's been walking a thin line - knows she'll suffocate if she spends one more second in that damn bucket helmet -

It's a bit of an impulse, but in the same way gasping for air's an impulse when you're drowning.

She snaps her designation at him when he takes time off from piloting the ship to start talking - does he ever shut up - she barely catches him saying he'll call her Sunn -

Then he decides to go back to Jakku. Never mind that'll get them caught, they need to get out of here, SN-2187 can vividly picture what'll happen if they get caught and there's almost no way off Jakku if they have to abandon the fighter which they probably will...

She's distracted enough arguing with him that her concentration slips. Stupid. Shots get through her defense. Extra stupid. They're going to crash. Why can't I do anything but mess up.

Poe tells her how to eject.

His seat doesn't follow her out, not that she sees.

She falls down to the sand, hits hard, and passes out.

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She wakes laid out on a thin blanket over hard ground - cold, the night air misty, a fire crackling to her right. Dark trees overhead, and an unfamiliar night sky peeking through the leaves.

And, as Sunn stirs, a woman says, "Don't move too much. You're injured."

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That's not very comforting. At all.

She opens her eyes. She doesn't feel like she has any spinal injuries... And - there's no way this is Jakku, she would've noticed if that ball of sand had any forests -

"Where is this?" she asks, sharply.

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"Outside of Nemea, near Corinth. Greece, if you're as lost as you seem."

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"I don't recognize those. What part of the galaxy is Greece?"

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"Galaxy? I wasn't aware the Milky Way was something mortals could be in."

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That gives her pause. "The Milky Way?" She shakes her head. "I haven't heard that term."

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"Big river of stars in the sky at night?"

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"The galaxy tends to look like that from a planet's surface," she says, slowly, after a pause.

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" - That's implying a lot of things about where you think it's reasonable for mortals to see stars from."

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"From assorted different planets in different parts of the galaxy, from spaceships, in hyperspace I guess, and if you wanted you could fly right up to one but that might be some kind of stupid depending on your ship and the star."

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"Approaching stars isn't something mortals can usually do, here."

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"We've been able to for as long as anyone knows, where I'm from."

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"You seem increasingly foreign."

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"Guess I must, here."

"Where's my armor?"

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She gestures behind her. "It didn't look comfortable to rest in, or particularly good for your wounds, so I removed it. Carefully, of course. I know what armor means to a warrior."

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She makes a face. That armor's a trap.

"I'm no warrior."

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"Could've fooled me, with armor that high in quality."

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"It's cheap where I'm from. Mass produced."

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"Must be a strange place, then."

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"It's normal, to me, so I wouldn't know."

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"Do you have a way back?"

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"Unless you found me near a ship - giant metal thing - then no."

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"You were the only odd thing I found, and I didn't see anything fall from the stars."

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"I'm probably stuck here, then, for a while at least."

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"Well, I can help you get your feet under you."

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