video; forward dated to 3/28

[starfortress]

[ apparently the star wars kids don't know how to hold onto their devices quite well. but unlike rey, paige drops her device and it turns on once it hits the ground. the camera is crooked but you can see her come in and out of frame, wearing her rebel-issued blue cobalt squadron jumpsuit, soaked to the bone.

she isn't pacing or running, she's dancing. or rather, twirling in the rain. one hand clutches something hanging around her neck, a necklace as she simply laughs and spins in the rain, free arm spread out.

eventually, her smile fades into something more solemn, sad and she sort of just... plops onto the ground, her expression turning pained. her hand tightens its grip on her necklace.

she's not crying now. it's just raining on her face. and as the video finally times out, she buries her face in her hands.]

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[foxtrots]

Sure you can. I'm Minsu.

[he smiles back, relieved to see that maybe she's not as sad as she was. or maybe she is, and just started hiding it better. because he understands being homesick, even if he doesn't understand the rest of it.]

I have three sisters. I don't miss them at all, but I bet yours is nicer than they are.

[starfortress]

I'm Paige.

[ she's good at hiding her pain, especially when she wants to put other people at ease.]

Three? I'm sure it's hard to get along with three sisters. My sister and I fought sometimes when we were younger.

[foxtrots]

They were a lot older. We had different ideas about things.

Paige is a pretty name. What's your sister's name?

[starfortress]

I'm older than my sister. But we agreed on most things.

Thank you. My sister's name is Rose.

[foxtrots]

Paige and Rose...

[minsu repeats the names. there's something about them, and he realizes what it is a moment later.]

Those sound like storybook names! Like you could be princesses.

[starfortress]

[ She laughs, shaking her head.] We're not princesses. Far from it.

[foxtrots]

Ah, maybe not now but someday, if you met a prince or a princess and fell in love.

[he's a romantic, and apparently there's no cure.]

What are you right now? What do you do?

[starfortress]

There aren't many of those where I'm from. Although I do know a princess.

I am a pilot, here.

[foxtrots]

Maybe most of them really are just in children's tales.

Are you ever afraid of falling?

[starfortress]

Some are real.

Falling?

[foxtrots]

When you fly. It's not a little bit scary?