[ Same hat! Poe's expression changes when she says she's a pilot, lighting up with familiarity. ] Same. Been in the air in one way or another since I was three.
[ When she goes on, his smile vanishes. He's thunderstruck, sick to his stomach. Extragalactic enemies on that kind of scale--he wasn't expecting that. He'd never even considered it. Sure, there's always been that curiosity, that mild interest in what might exist past the bounds of their own galaxy, but things were big enough and busy enough that it was never more than something to daydream about. He loves the worlds he knows.
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[ When she goes on, his smile vanishes. He's thunderstruck, sick to his stomach. Extragalactic enemies on that kind of scale--he wasn't expecting that. He'd never even considered it. Sure, there's always been that curiosity, that mild interest in what might exist past the bounds of their own galaxy, but things were big enough and busy enough that it was never more than something to daydream about. He loves the worlds he knows.
Two among trillions.
A whisper: ]
Kriffing hells.