[ All around the base, Resistance fighters scrambled, a flurry of disconnected parts that could not work in concert with one another, each trying to address the same problem. Even those without the appropriate skillset hummed, incapable of standing still, but for the flight commander, who insisted firmly that the problem lay in their old, secondhand equipment, barely updated since the last Rebellion.
At least, he kept saying it until Luke Skywalker climbed into the pit of a x-wing grounded for a blown engine and confirmed that the problem lay in a jamming signal. Without a way to reach the parts of the fleet in the air, it took him and Rey another three hours to get the engine overhauled and flightready so that Luke could go up and find it.
Leia and Rey both hated the idea, each arguing for different reasons that Luke was too valuable to the Resistance, and to them, to risk heading up there alone, but he did it. And Leia, strong as ever, took it without letting it bow her back. She even smiled at Rey when she told her to go get some rest, promising any updates.
But Rey didn't trudge back to her bunk. She started that way, distracted by trying to reach out for Luke with the Force, to get a sense of where he was so she could track him out there, but she diverted as soon as she broke the tree line. No matter what the Force-sensitive leadership of the Resistance had to say about it, an aura of distrust still centered around the barracks where Kylo Ren was quartered, permeating into the physical world through the squish of the 24-hour guard's boots in the soil around the perimeter, through the several rooms of buffer between his bunk and any other Resistance fighter, through the soldiers who are chosen to stay there.
Rey might be the only person in the camp who actually wants to be there. She announces herself with a knock on the door, an anxiousness thick in the air around her. Worry for Luke. ]
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At least, he kept saying it until Luke Skywalker climbed into the pit of a x-wing grounded for a blown engine and confirmed that the problem lay in a jamming signal. Without a way to reach the parts of the fleet in the air, it took him and Rey another three hours to get the engine overhauled and flightready so that Luke could go up and find it.
Leia and Rey both hated the idea, each arguing for different reasons that Luke was too valuable to the Resistance, and to them, to risk heading up there alone, but he did it. And Leia, strong as ever, took it without letting it bow her back. She even smiled at Rey when she told her to go get some rest, promising any updates.
But Rey didn't trudge back to her bunk. She started that way, distracted by trying to reach out for Luke with the Force, to get a sense of where he was so she could track him out there, but she diverted as soon as she broke the tree line. No matter what the Force-sensitive leadership of the Resistance had to say about it, an aura of distrust still centered around the barracks where Kylo Ren was quartered, permeating into the physical world through the squish of the 24-hour guard's boots in the soil around the perimeter, through the several rooms of buffer between his bunk and any other Resistance fighter, through the soldiers who are chosen to stay there.
Rey might be the only person in the camp who actually wants to be there. She announces herself with a knock on the door, an anxiousness thick in the air around her. Worry for Luke. ]