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It's one of the better valued ships there.

...And then a bizarre awkward reverse negotiation begins, because the proprietor is insisting he won't be able to sell it for what it's worth anyways, and the girls clearly need it, and Miss Vendar and her daughter student have done so much for their community, and Anakin keeps trying to pay him what she values it at.

He eventually accepts a good bit of their local supplies - they'd kept at least a month of food and water at any time, and will need some but not that much on the ship - and information on the stash they've built of salvaged parts Lily had been squirreling away, and Lily's tricked out speeder ("It's very specialized to Jakku's conditions, and we'd like to know it's in good hands."), and when he notices Anakin had floated some currency to the counter behind him he makes an exasperated face but doesn't try to give it back.

And then they have a fully fueled ship, some spare parts for it, the best diagrams the proprietor could make of its current modifications, and - 

Presumably a destination.

(It's up to Ellaita if she wants Anakin or Lily helping her pilot.)

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It'd be more helpful if they can check that the hyperdrive and weapon systems are fully functional, at least for the first bit of their journey.

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Anakin (back to being ghost colored) is fully on board with that - and comments it'll be a good chance to get Lily really familiarized with the systems in actual operation. 

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Nothing like field experience.

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The best teacher.

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Yep.

She starts running through preflights.

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And Anakin leads a very bouncy and excited Lily off to go poke at the ship's innards. 

Anakin does a preliminary report back soon enough that everything looks good at first pass, but Anakin's of course doing more thorough investigations - she's planning on doing those first, then running through them a second time with Lily, for thoroughness and to not slow down their actual initial checks. (The deeper sweeps also reveal nothing wrong, though Anakin identifies some subtle weak points that might turn wrong with enough stressors - like you might get from a dogfight - and suggestions on how to reinforce those.) (The reports are actually fairly military standard - what efficient communication looks like hasn't changed dramatically in the last seventy years - and do show a strong comfort with the technical details here.)

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As slightly unnerving as associating formerly-Vader with anything military is... good. That's enough to get them offplanet, at least.

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A good start, though depending on how far they need to go they might need to stop to refuel...

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More than likely. Ellaita knows a place; there's a resistance contact she can tap for a secure line to call in, too.

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Alright. They'll need to be cautious, of course, but it sounds like a fairly solid bet.

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Assuming they make it there in one piece...


Here goes nothing.

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Anakin helps monitor the ship's systems during the jump to hyperspace, in case there's something wrong with the internal sensors. It goes well, though, and the transition is fairly smooth. Looks like they should make it to the refueling stop, at least. 

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Assuming they don't hit any unplotted planets or the First Order hasn't recommissioned any of the old Imperial interdictors.

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Anakin's not confident of their path forward - the future is always in motion, after all - but she suspects the dangers ahead of them are of a different sort. 

Still, it doesn't hurt to be cautious.

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Nothing they can do now but wait out the trip, anyway.

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Ellaita's contact is on a hot, humid world. Fortunately, this part of it's more 'tons of vegetation along rivers and lakes' rather than the 'hellhole swamp' part. There's enough traffic they won't automatically stand out, though they'll want to avoid drawing attention - this place isn't a hotbed of crime that everyone's monitoring, but enough people of interest sometimes drift through that powers in the area mostly have contacts here.

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In other words, they still need to keep a low profile. No ghost stuff, no levitating random objects. Try not to mention Jakku.

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Lily knows how to be sneaky!

She's Lily Vendar, traveling with her mom. She was born on a spaceship, and they've just traveled their whole lives. They're trading for passage with Ellaita, and wanted to stop here a little bit - the ship needed fuel anyways, and there's an old small temple a bit outside the main city. She has no idea where they're going next really, mom makes those decisions, grownup conversations are boring. Maybe if there's nearby stuff that's cool she can ask mom to go there, though. (She also knows to not go out of her way to need to tell the Story, though, but Master Anakin is kinda bad at lying so Lily should probably answer more questions than her if questions have to be answered.)

(...Wow this is extremely an innocent seeming young teenager who definitely is a weirdly socialized curious ship brat and not a weirdly socialized feral desert brat.)

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Anakin thoroughly understands the concept of keeping a low profile and that she should mostly just not talk if she doesn't have to.

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Sounds like everyone's on the same page then, great.

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They'll follow Ellaita's lead, too - she knows the area and who they're talking to.

So, onward to land and go find fuel and contacts?

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Yep.

Fuel's easy enough, but for the contacts, they'll have to haunt the cantina for a while.

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Lily is extremely excited when they get off the ship, though she's doing a good job of tamping it down into general excitability. (It's wet here! And green! And there's a ton of water everywhere!) (She's seen other planets in Master Anakin's memories, but never with her own eyes.)

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There are also a lot of people. More than even the busiest settlements on Jakku, and all out and about in the bright light of day. All kinds of bright colors and styles are on display, beings from across the sector and beyond.

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