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[talentedscavenger]

Hello, you've reached Rey. I'm not here right now, but if you leave a message, I will try to get back to you.

Thanks.

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[talentedscavenger]

[ Rey picks up the phone, about to say hello and then the news is dropped on her. ]

What?!

[ How is he talking if he’s a bird?!]

Where are you?

[ This is why she can’t leave Poe alone. ]

[volitaunt]

I know! Isn't it great?

[ Poe pls. ]

Where--uh, little cafe, his part of town. Taako's part of town, I mean. But listen, I flew, I flew over the whole city.

[talentedscavenger]

[Not. Great. NOT. GREAT!]

How did you even get him to do that?! Why did you ask to be turned into a bird? You could've been eaten!

[She lost you once, gdmit, she doesn't want to find out you were almost in someone's stomach!]

I'm coming to get you. Bird, human, whatever, I'm getting you now.

[volitaunt]

He said he could, I thought about it, I asked him! And nothing could have eaten me, I was a giant eagle.

[ JUST BRUSHING THAT CONCERN OFF NBD. ]

I'm fine, Rey, I'm fantastic. Human. And fantastic, but I was that before.

[talentedscavenger]

And did you think what he may ask of you in return?

[Not that she doesn't trust Taako, she's beginning to trust him, but considering her life as a scavenger nothing was free. There was always a price to be paid, and damnit she nearly lost you Poe!]

Are you thinking of asking him to do it again?

[She suddenly feels like she's chastising a child rather than her friend who happens to be a grown man.]

[volitaunt]

It's fine. I trust him.

[ Nothing is going to harsh his buzz rn.

A pause while he thinks about it, but it doesn't take a lot of thinking. ] Yes. I mean, think about how many different birds there are. Think what I could learn.

[talentedscavenger]

[There is a long, exasperated sigh. part of her knows she should be supporting him in this, but the other part was scared of losing him again. But...he knew what he was getting into. He is an adult...and if he was ever in trouble, she would know, right?

Hopefully that thought doesn't come back to haunt her.]

You could learn something and apply it to your X-Wing or the shuttle. [She said softly, slowly coming around, not trying to kill his buzz and trying to be supportive.]

Just...don't become a bird permanently, okay?

[volitaunt]

Please, and never sit behind the stick of an X-wing again? [ He's too giddy to really think about that possibility, to even consider that something might go wrong and leave him trapped. All he wants to do right now is make a billion notes on the way the wind felt under his wings, the way he used it to bank, rise, dive. ]

Force. It was amazing, Rey, it was amazing.

[talentedscavenger]

You could end up loving to fly without the need of an engine.

[She's teasing a little, again, slowly coming around to this...notion.]

I can only imagine.

[volitaunt]

A bird doesn't get to be out in the stars.

[ That's all there is to it, really. He would never give up that part of the sky, not for anything. ]

You could try it. I'm just saying.

[talentedscavenger]

No, it doesn't.

[But one never knows. If he enjoys being a bird, it could..maybe mess with his mind? Maybe make him miss that part of the sky?

Ah!! What?!]

You mean change into a bird? With you? [And then Finn may get left out.

No. No. She is not going to consider this at all. She has to figure out how to be a Jedi. A JEDI DOESN'T TURN INTO A BIRD.]