sololoquy | (no subject)

[Yeah, he's realizing now that he should have went. He underestimated how bad it had been over there. But its too late now, and complaining about it won't help.]

Perhaps the remaining guards will remember you from when we turned in the rebels we captured. You can convince them to storm the summit with you.

Not likely. They told us to hide.

[ Even over text she manages to load the word with such disdain. Even if it were strategic (and it's not), she wouldn't have that in her. ]

[Ew.]

Have you tried jogging their memory?

[With or without the Force, he doesn't really specify.]

No.

If they see us coming in force, they might escalate the situation. I want to find a way to sneak in. I just haven't yet. They've got people posted around the wall.

So do not go in force. Take an escort.

[Pause.]

The stealth option offers more security. There must be a weak point.

I'll find it. I'm keeping an eye on guard rotations along the wall now. They don't seem to have any real system, the way the Empress' guard did.

[ disorganized. sort of chaotic and frantic. it makes sense. ]

How goes Youmi's escort?

Calm.

[He doesn't consider the attack noteworthy, but she would probably want to know about it. So, after a moment:]

We were attacked recently. The Hanabirans called it a spirit of the forest. It brought an army of fauna with it.

[ she writes this text three times as 'were you hurt?' before she figures out how to say it in a way that she suspects he won't be annoyed with. he hadn't taken her previous concern over him well. ]

No major injuries, I hope.

[She's learning. Good.]

Mostly minor. There were several very large animals involved. Some of our number are softer than others.

[AKA he, Poe, and Finn are all fine here.]

[ what she means: i'm glad.

what she says: ] Good.

Pity the spirit of the forest couldn't have helped with some of those ogres we were dealing with instead. Did any of them have theories on what drew it out?

It brought ogres with it. The natives suggested that it was the bloodshed that occurred on its territory.

It won't be flying again anytime soon.

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You hurt it?

But if we can get the Empresses to make peace with each other, maybe ending the bloodshed could calm it.

Our choices were to fell it, or to be trampled. So yes: we hurt it.

[ grumble grumble sounds like it had good reason to come at you but FINE. she won't push that. ]

I'll consider myself lucky the mountain itself hasn't attacked us then.

We are on horseback. I suspect we will reach the Flowerlands long before you do, if you have not even begun to extract Nama.

You worry about keeping Empress Youmi patient. We'll get Nama there.

[Rey, did you just ask Kylo Ren to keep someone patient?]

I should hope so.

That trick you used on me and on the woman who grabbed me at the festival. Is it possible to do that to multiple people at once?

[ "i would like to cast 'sleep' as an area of effect spell over the whole castle." ]

No. The effort would kill you.

[Unless you were some kind of Force god or something.]

But you can perform it in rapid succession, if you are disciplined enough. You will still likely collapse when you are through with it.

Great.

[ she's always wanted to take a coma. but at least keith and thrawn and hayame are here to hopefully get her out of the castle after. she's just not sure she wants to take herself out of the fight like that. what if things get worse after they're inside? ]

What about mind control? How many do you think I could get to ignore us that way?

[He's smiling. She can't see it, but he is definitely smiling.]

That depends. How many can you make eye contact with?

[He doesn't believe that anyone holing themselves up in that castle is particularly strong-willed. It would be easy for her.]

And I won't collapse after it's done?

It didn't work when you tried it on me. Because it was through the bond, or is there something else?

[ Yeah we're just Going At this conversation right now. Just gonna dig right into it ruthlessly. ]

No. I think you can handle that much, so long as you don't persist for an extended period of time.

[Wow Rey, please find some chill. You act like he's never taken information from you before.]

You were not physically present. It will also take a considerable amount of practice for you to compel information from another Force sensitive at will.

[Don't get any ideas just because you figured out how to use the bridge he already built.]

[ she is so chill right now this is what chill looks like. no, really, she's actually so focused on the task that she's not even thinking about like 'hey man maybe it was sketchy that ben tried to miND CONTROL ME INTO BRINGING HIM LUKE that doesn't seem like a thing a good person does.' ]

Good thing I don't need to compel information from any other Force sensitives then.

[ which is almost sweet. it was like ... so close to being sweet. ]

Thanks.

[Well, he thinks its pretty sweet, actually. Which is why she doesn't get a reply for a while, even though its totally in character for him to not reply at all.

He does eventually reply.]

You're welcome.

[#yikes.]