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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ii

[decoyqueen]

Sabé would hate to admit that she's fallen into a pattern much like she had in her time on Tatooine, but that's very much the case. Willful Machine was where she and Padmé had set up their home, so it was a district she spent much of her time in... whether intentionally or not.

She's sitting on a bench near a cluster of the shops with one foot perched on the edge of the seat so she can rest her arm on her knee as she picks at a small lunch from a nearby vendor... and really, it's not that she's watching the other woman- just that she's paying attention to her surroundings when she's noticed that she's walked into a few shops and left empty handed.

Tossing the last piece of cured meat down to tusk-cat cub curled at her feet, Sabé brushes her hands off on her pants before calling out to her-

"Are you looking for anything in particular?"

Willful Machine has a lot of shops- and she's been in quite a few of them by this point. While not at all an extroverted individual, she does want to be of some help if she's able.

[provenforce]

Unaware that she was being watched Rey doesn't even realize she's being spoken to for a moment. When she does she smiles in the other woman's direction, shaking her head.

"Not really. Just getting my bearings. I've only been here a few days."

[decoyqueen]

She smiles... Sabé smiles back. There's so many potential follow-up questions from that answer- but she doesn't want to pry and it's not like she's on a mission right now. Even months after her arrival, she still struggles with adapting to normal life. Or at least life that wasn't a perpetual mission.

"Oh? Well... welcome." Was that weird to say? It sounded polite at least. "How are you settling in so far?"

[provenforce]

If it's weird Rey doesn't indicate that it is. But really she wouldn't know anyway, it's only in the last year that she's become acquainted with regular socialization and sometimes she's a bit of an odd porg out with it.

"Alright, I guess. I've run into a lot of people who are from my galaxy but... different times. Is that common, here?"

[decoyqueen]

The use of 'galaxy' in place of 'home' or something else was curious. It doesn't necessarily mean that she's from the same place she is, but she does know that she hasn't heard many people refer to their place of origin like that.

Sabé shrugs her shoulders before she answers.

"It's not... uncommon. There are quite a number of people from where I'm from- but most of us are from different times. Sometimes it's just a year or two, sometimes it's decades of differences."

[provenforce]

"I've noticed that," Rey replies, frowning to herself as she worries her bottom lip. "My old teacher is here, and his parents who are... long dead by the time I come into the picture."

She shakes her head before realizing she hasn't even introduced herself to this woman.

"I'm sorry, I haven't spoken to that many other people besides those who are dead as far as I knew. My name is Rey."

[decoyqueen]

"It can be a lot to take in and get used to." To say the least.

"Rey- it's nice to meet you. I'm Sabé. And you don't have to apologize, I'd say you're taking this a lot better than I did when I arrived..."

[provenforce]

She lets out a small incredulous laugh, raising her eyebrows.

"Am I? It doesn't feel like it. I feel like I've gone completely mad." It would make a certain kind of sense. Maybe everything that happened after Snoke's throne room was false, maybe she's still there, being tortured into mindlessness. That would be just as far an explanation as anything, at the moment. "Of course, you didn't see me turn into a crying mess in front of Luke Skywalker of all people."

if this is too old, feel free to ignore <3

[decoyqueen]

"You knew him back home?"

They can circle back to the 'feeling she's gone mad' bit later, if they want or even need to. That's a common feeling, at the very least. But the information provided about her crying in front of Luke...

"Luke Skywalker- he's from your time?"