[ it had taken her too long from when catra said earthquake to actually recognize the word as what had happened the years prior and in cassian's dream but it clicked quickly enough. ]
Too coincidental that it happened while we were here
[ bad, it's real bad. she can't control an entire ocean, she can't control an island of rock. jyn has absolutely no idea what to do at this moment because all she can think about is the roar of the wave on scarif. ]
[ clarke may have not meant so literally, but even so jyn sends her a picture of the ocean surrounding the island, visible even from the higher inland ground she and catra managed to herd some people. grey and frothy with white caps and listlessly shifting ice floes it nonetheless looks beautiful. ]
You're going to have to have that confidence for the both of us.
[ if jyn was with cassian or clarke or marcos this might be easier, but she's alone and daisy and illya are gone so she was already fragile; now the idea of this almost inescapable danger is eating away at her. ]
[ jyn's heart deflates in her chest, thinking of having to add daisy to a long line of people that have left. clarke will understand, but jyn doesn't give voice to that sorrow, shoving it down deep with the rest of them. ]
Monty was with us when we first went to the ground. It means that he had been arrested, as well, before he went. [Has she ever told Jyn that she was arrested? Frankly, most of their "crimes" were meaningless except for on a place like the Ark.] We all were. I can't remember if I've told you that.
Monty was from Farm Station, but he was picked to be an engineer. He did what he could to help us rewire radios, and he mostly worked alongside his best friend Jasper.
He went through a lot. He was there with me and Bellamy when we had to make a difficult choice. One that honestly cost us who we were. And when I couldn't deal, he stayed there with Bellamy.
Just like all of us, Monty lost a lot along the way. But he keep going. Because despite the choices that we forced him to make, there was a part of him that still believed that we could do better. He wanted peace and to be away from all the fighting in our world. He kept trying to help us toward that, even after we fell right back into going to war after the six years that kept us all separated.
And when we went to sleep for a while, it was Monty who took the chance to live a peaceful life with his partner, Harper. Harper was a good balance to Monty. A guard and fighter to balance him out. He was more of a farmer after it all. Even if it was just the two of them, they knew that they had to take that chance. They watched over us and worked tirelessly to find our people a new place to live.
When we finally woke up, Monty and Harper had passed and their son Jordan was there to greet us. Monty left us a message telling us that he believed that humanity wasn't the problem. The issue with the world. He asked us to do better.
[ it's exactly what jyn needs; a wall of text she isn't emotionally attached to. sorry, clarke and cassian, but they were part of her problem at the moment -- jyn's desperation to get back making her sloppy, unfocused. now she has something to focus on. names she doesn't know, lives she doesn't really care about, but somehow, out of nowhere, a reminder of bodhi. ]
The place he got us all to was called Sanctum. You saw a bit of it in my dreams. I'm sorry to say that it isn't the world that he wanted it to be, but he still gave us a chance to find somewhere else, especially if that doesn't work out.
[Oddly enough, the environmental difficulties of Sanctum aren't as bad as the god-fearing people forced to worship others.]
I miss him. I've actually told a few people about him here. Especially after I got back.
[Because his importance to her, his belief in her, meant that much more.
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[Because after staring at this for a long time, this is what she comes to.
She can't help, and it's killing her.]
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Do you think this has anything to do with Cassian's earthquake?
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[ it had taken her too long from when catra said earthquake to actually recognize the word as what had happened the years prior and in cassian's dream but it clicked quickly enough. ]
Too coincidental that it happened while we were here
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[They had before, hadn't they? Cities ruined.]
It's not looking good from here, Jyn. It's bad.
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[ bad, it's real bad. she can't control an entire ocean, she can't control an island of rock. jyn has absolutely no idea what to do at this moment because all she can think about is the roar of the wave on scarif. ]
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Keep her talking. That's all that makes sense right now.]
What are you looking at?
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[ clarke may have not meant so literally, but even so jyn sends her a picture of the ocean surrounding the island, visible even from the higher inland ground she and catra managed to herd some people. grey and frothy with white caps and listlessly shifting ice floes it nonetheless looks beautiful. ]
If the water starts to recede a wave is coming.
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What are the odds of that? Does it look like it?
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[ jyn has nothing so fancy as the force to back up her feeling, instead it is based solely on a lifetime of bad luck. ]
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I don't really want to die the same way twice.
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[ if jyn was with cassian or clarke or marcos this might be easier, but she's alone and daisy and illya are gone so she was already fragile; now the idea of this almost inescapable danger is eating away at her. ]
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So, it's confidence and being stubborn.
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Well, keep it up.
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Trying to think of what to talk about right now.
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Someone you haven't introduced me to yet.
[ sorry, madi, jyn doesn't want to feel any mother related emotions on top of this ]
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Monty was from Farm Station, but he was picked to be an engineer. He did what he could to help us rewire radios, and he mostly worked alongside his best friend Jasper.
He went through a lot. He was there with me and Bellamy when we had to make a difficult choice. One that honestly cost us who we were. And when I couldn't deal, he stayed there with Bellamy.
Just like all of us, Monty lost a lot along the way. But he keep going. Because despite the choices that we forced him to make, there was a part of him that still believed that we could do better. He wanted peace and to be away from all the fighting in our world. He kept trying to help us toward that, even after we fell right back into going to war after the six years that kept us all separated.
And when we went to sleep for a while, it was Monty who took the chance to live a peaceful life with his partner, Harper. Harper was a good balance to Monty. A guard and fighter to balance him out. He was more of a farmer after it all. Even if it was just the two of them, they knew that they had to take that chance. They watched over us and worked tirelessly to find our people a new place to live.
When we finally woke up, Monty and Harper had passed and their son Jordan was there to greet us. Monty left us a message telling us that he believed that humanity wasn't the problem. The issue with the world. He asked us to do better.
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He sounds good.
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[Oddly enough, the environmental difficulties of Sanctum aren't as bad as the god-fearing people forced to worship others.]
I miss him. I've actually told a few people about him here. Especially after I got back.
[Because his importance to her, his belief in her, meant that much more.
It's terrible that it comes with grief.]
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[She wants to add "because you will." But the short reply works both ways.]
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