A Most Dangerous Game (D8, LM)

[Aphr Ahaya]

Aphr closed her eyes.

"Weak. I'm nothing but weak and useless, and now Zeno's dead and it's all my fault."

[Galen Sol]

"No. It isn't." he said firmly. "I drew its attention before we were ready. I underestimated its strength. I electrocuted myself. This is all on me."

"I should have been alone. No one else should have been hurt."

[Aphr Ahaya]

"Alone? No, we needed ten more people!" She opened her eyes and looked at Galen "or we shouldn't have come at all."

She was upset and angry

[Galen Sol]

"You're right." he lowered his head. "This was foolish."

He took out a stimpack. "Are you wounded?"

[Aphr Ahaya]

"I'm fine. You took the serious damage, I just got struck by a tree" she said with a shake of her head "what now?"

[Galen Sol]

"I just had the wind knocked out of me. All of it." he sighed. "We could go find help, but it may be better to recover and regroup. I don't like it, but there's not much we can do here."

[Aphr Ahaya]

"Then let's just go" Aphr said in a flat tone, looking back out where they came from.

"No point staying if we can't help him. We failed and now we get to run away and live while Zeno dies."

[Galen Sol]

"Then we make our lives mean something." he said. "Clearly, I have a lot to learn and I should go learn it."

"We're ready to take off." he spoke into his commlink.

[Aphr Ahaya]

Aphr helped with her parts for takeoff, then sat down taking a blue cube from her pocket. She turned it a few times in her hand idly as she thought.

As I am now, I'm too useless to help anyone. I don't know why you see anything in me, grandmother. I need to be stronger to protect anyone. What do I do....

[Galen Sol]

Galen sat down with her as the Starcross lifted off.

"What is that?"

[Aphr Ahaya]

"It's a holocron" Aphr replied rather distantly, just watching it as she turned it in her hand "I was given it by a woman called Kaya on Nal hutta."

[Galen Sol]

"Really? You have had a few adventures." he gave a small smile. "I don't know anything about holocrons, but it sounds important."

[Aphr Ahaya]

"It is" she replied simply. She clearly wasn't in a conversing mood.

[Galen Sol]

"I'm going to go lay down for a few minutes." he said after a few moments of silence. "But,, call for me if you need anything."

[Aphr Ahaya]

Aphr just nodded, not focusing on the man. Just on the cube in her hand.

[Galen Sol]

Without another word, Galen left her to get some rest. I wouldn't be of much benefit, however.

D8, LM, Recovering Strain: 1eA+1eP+1eD 0 successes, 1 advantage


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