But I'm only human (open)

[provenforce]

Who: Rey
What: settling in and stuff
When: throughout June
Where: different locations in Trench

Content Warnings: possible discussion of child abandonment, war stuff, will add more as needed



i. Sanguine Station (the first few days after arrival)

Remembering who she was was easy. Coming to terms with the reality of this place was harder. She spends a few days at the inn, pouring over the journal that had been given to her along with other items. There were others who seemed to be in similar straits, and if anyone approaches her while she's sitting at one of the tables in the inn with the journal in front of her she'll speak with them.

ii. exploring (anytime)

Once she's quietly freaked out enough at the inn Rey sets out into the city. She finds herself in Willful Machine, walking through the shops and pausing to look at anything shiny that catches her eye. She likes to touch things though she makes no attempts to buy anything.

She is surprised when she finds a shop selling old bits of machinery and wires, taking more time in there than anywhere else. In her mind she's cataloguing everything, how many portions certain parts would have gotten her back on Jakku. Part of her is still the starving scavenger girl, even if she's tried to grow beyond her.

iii. house hunting (towards the end of the month)

The inn was comfortable enough but Rey needs her own space. Part of her had been looking from the first day, but so much of the Trench seemed loud or crowded, both things that Rey enjoyed, but on her own terms. She needed something quiet for her own space, and after almost an entire month of staying at the Sanguine Inn she found a small victorian-style bungalow at the end of a road of homes mostly overgrown by vegetation in Crenshaw.

It was big enough for her to park her speeder that had somehow appeared on the beach not long after she had, and had a little shed out back that had an old workbench that looked like something she could repurpose into something useful.

The yard was overgrown with weeds, so after moving her meager belongings in she got to work in cleaning up the yard.

iv. wildcard

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[ezra_of_lothal]

Oh, now that is a helpful reference point. Rey could, after all, have simply not been found by the Jedi.

"I was born the day the Republic became the Empire, " he clarifies. "My teachers have been survivors of the Purge."

[provenforce]

Her shoulders fell at that, though the hope she'd felt isn't entirely extinguished.

"I was born fifteen years after the New Republic was founded. But... if you had teachers that survived, that means there must be more Jedi in the galaxy than just Luke and his family!" She didn't know why Luke wouldn't have found them, but the galaxy had been slow to rebuild after the Empire decimated it. It was after all a big place.

[ezra_of_lothal]

"I certainly hope so," Ezra replies, a little puzzled. Anakin the younger had mostly talked about his blood family, true, but Ezra had gotten the impression there were other Jedi from before the Purge who had come out of the woodwork, and a number of others in training.

Then he shakes his head. "The last thing I did in the galaxy was...a big risk. I kidnapped an entire Imperial fleet, basically, and I wasn't sure where we'd end up. There's a good chance I'm dead by that time, or very far from former Imperial space."

[provenforce]

"How... do you kidnap an entire fleet?" Rey doesn't even know how you'd go about the logistics of something like that, not without a huge amount of time and resources.

Given the limited reach of the Resistance Rey doesn't imagine Imperial-era Jedi fared much better on getting that kind of man or firepower.

[ezra_of_lothal]

His lips twitch into a small smirk, because ok, he's still proud of this bit.

"D'you know what a Purgill is?"

[provenforce]

"The space whales?" Of course Rey had heard of them, though she'd never so much as seen one.

"Spacers used to come into Niima complaining about them. I always wanted to see them, but I never left the planet before a year ago." There was so much still out in the galaxy she hadn't gotten the chance to experience.

[ezra_of_lothal]

"Yep. I made friends with a big pod of them. We helped each other out, before, so when I asked for help, they came. If you've heard they can travel in hyperspace, that part's true, too. I...honestly have no idea where we were all headed."

His expression sobers. "Very far away, probably."

[provenforce]

"Wow." Rey looks nothing short of impressed. She's had a few encounters with smaller animals, and even formed something of a vague alliance with a Nightstalker Worm, but an entire pod of purgill sounds entirely like the kind of thing she'd have eaten up as a child but dismissed as entirely fake.

And yet here stood someone saying he'd done that very thing!

"Is that a normal Jedi thing- befriending massive creatures?"

[ezra_of_lothal]

He shrugs expansively. "Not not normal? My first master, Kanan Jarrus taught me how to connect with animals. And I know Master Kenobi and Master Jinn - were? - good at it, too. We don't all have the same gifts in the Force."

[provenforce]

"I just... I befriended a few creatures on Jakku. I didn't know I was Force-sensitive then, but I did almost feel like I could understand them, sometimes." Especially the happabore, owned by a local farmer but it had always been happy to see Rey after she'd helped it when it had been hurt.

[ezra_of_lothal]

"Then you must have some affinity for the talent," Ezra says cheerfully. "I had to work through some anger and fear issues, because I got those kind of easy responses."