He knew who she was. Right, of course he did. Probably wasn’t every day that the daughter of Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade emerged from the Dark Side-induced mass amnesia of the whole galaxy and returned to the Resistance. Probably everyone on the base knew her by sight already.
She felt like more of an idiot than ever, but forced a smile and what she hoped came off as a perky nod anyway. “Oh, yep. Yep, everyone’s wonderful. Everyone’s been wonderful. Being wonderful. Absolutely. I’m adjusting like…like a gonk droid that’s just gotten wired-up to a new power converter. Bam. Like that.” She snapped her fingers, realizing belatedly that she’d probably over sold it, and tried to carry it off with a big smile and another nod.
In her awkward embarrassment, she’d almost forgotten why she came to talk to Janson. Iwas only when he mentioned Ben that the memory lurched back up and grabbed her attention through the fog of mortification.
“Oh!” Rey said. “Right, yes – you. I mean. You were in the Tierfon Yellow Aces, right?” She fixed her eyes, beaming with hope – almost pleading, really – on Janson. “Were you there when Dosmit Ræh commanded the squadron?”
“Oh yeah?” Wes asked, not believing her for a solitary moment. “because I would think that something like this would be a shock and a half. I don’t know that I’d be functioning even as well as a gonk droid. And that’s saying something given that they’re about the most useless hunks of junk in the galaxy.”
Which was also saying something. Wes wasn’t a big fan of droids in general apart from astromechs.
Her next question startled him. Of all the things he was expecting her to say, that wasn’t one of them.
“I was,” he confirmed, “and I knew Dosmit well. But, while I’d be hard-pressed to think of anyone who’d make a better commanding officer, I’m afraid that I got out right before she took over. Why?”
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