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[imthepilot]

Bodhi can't help but get up and fiddle. He's slept so much since the accident, he finds it hard to stay still for too long. Even if holding Galen in the afterglow is magnificent.

Instead he investigates Galen's little kitchenette, seeing what he might have to work with. He's starving!

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[galen_erso]

"And there I would have found you, and come back again and again, for your food at first, then for your conversation, and then because I'd have fallen in love," Galen says.

See, they are meant to be.

[imthepilot]

Bodhi smiles, liking that thought. "Either way, I get to cook for you."

[galen_erso]

"You do," Galen says. "And I get to enjoy your cooking. And we get to share everything else."

[imthepilot]

"Everything I have to share. Past and future." Bodhi answers, almost as s promise. "Anything you want to know about me, just asks."

[galen_erso]

"The same goes for me," Galen says. "Never think anything is too painful, or too personal."

[imthepilot]

"I'd like to know about your life, before here. Before the Empire." He toys with Galen's fingers, "These aren't the hands of a scientist."

[galen_erso]

Galen turns up his palms. There are scars in there.

"The hands of an unskilled farmer," Galen says, "of an inept rock-climber, and of a father used to pulling his own weight in the household."

[imthepilot]

Bodhi traces them, studying them. reading Galen's history. "What did you farm?"

[galen_erso]

"Everything we needed," Galen says. "Subsistence farming, basically. It was bad times -- worse than even now -- and trade was often interrupted. So, no relying on cash crops."

[imthepilot]

"An outer rim world then?" Then shakes his head. "Don't tell me, if it would endanger you at all." He isn't sure how Galen came to be on Eadu, or what he still might hold in secret.

[galen_erso]

"Lah'mu," Galen says. "Just about as full of black stones as this place. Still, we managed to survive and thrive, and learn with time. It's amazing how things will just grow on their own if you provide the right conditions."

[imthepilot]

"And you child?" He frowns, trying to remember her name from their hazy conversations in the med-bay. "Jyn? She grew up there?"

[galen_erso]

"She did," Galen says. "She took to nature and the outdoors with the same unerring instinct as her mother."

[imthepilot]

It must have been quite a playground, even in the hard times. I never had the gift for growing things. My grandmother had that. And Jedha isn't a good place for outdoors."

[galen_erso]

"Depending on what you wear, and what you want to do outside," Galen says. "Lyra always stuck with the old adage that there is no bad weather, only the wrong clothes. But she never came to this place, or it might have proven her wrong at last. It's worse than Hoth, in a way."

[imthepilot]

Bodhi smiles warmly. "At least you never want for water. I only saw the Jedha rains twice in my life. But I'm sure you miss the sun."

[galen_erso]

"I do," Galen says, "but I am told this system actually has one -- otherwise, survival would be harder than necessary."

[imthepilot]

"It's in planet shadow for most the time." Bodhi nods, able to see the movement of the system clearly in his head. Solo navigation will do that to you. "A red star, warm but not overly bright. Flying out in the gravitational window, it always catches over the planet horizon, like flare going off."

[galen_erso]

"It must be beautiful," Galen says, "if a bit impractical for anything to actually live here independently."

[imthepilot]

"It is, if you're ready for it. It can be blinding and dangerous if you're not. But it's the safest way to make orbit."

[galen_erso]

"You have goggles for that?" Galen says.

[imthepilot]

"I've going to have to get a new pair." He sighs, "Mine were trashed in the fire."

[galen_erso]

"Good thing they didn't melt on your face," Galen says. "That would have have hurt even more."

[imthepilot]

"Oh no, they won't melt. You'd have to pour fuel in them directly to make them melt. There's a fail-save in the lenses. Once triggers, they go black and stay that way. In theory to protect the wearer's eyes from extreme flashes."

[galen_erso]

"But in practice?" Galen says, "they keep you from seeing what the problem is, thus making sure you can't deal with it in an effective manner?"