#kenari

“...the hardships many non-Indigenous people dread most of the climate crisis are ones that Indigenous peoples have endured already due to different forms of colonialism."

-- Kyle Powys Whyte

"For the societies exploded, reorganised and even erased by fossil powered bourgeois modernity - the indigenous and colonised, the wretched of the earth - life unfolds already in disaster’s aftermath. It is already after the end of the world. For the rest of us, collapse is now."

-- Nathan Hensley

Do you think that when Cassian learned that the empire intended to gouge-mine Ghorman he thought of Kenari’s fate? “Abandoned imperial mining project. Apparently no one survived”. Do you think he remembered standing in front of that huge abandoned imperial mine cutting into the heart of his home planet and felt like a child again, helpless against the might of the empire?

Do you think when Cassian told Luthen “they’re not ready” he was remembering the girl who died on Kenari leading their small band of child-scavengers to check out the wreck of the crashed imperial ship? And all the fallout from that?

Do you think he was remembering the sister he left behind, the community lost, the planet destroyed beyond all possibility of habitation?

Do you think that every time Cassian saw someone recoil from the word “Ghorman” he remembered the woman who recoiled when he told her he was searching for a girl from Kenari? How many other times do you think he saw something like that, from the few people who had even heard of Kenari?

Do you think that when he was in the midst of the Ghorman massacre he was remembering whatever tragedies befell Kenari that left the children to fend for themselves?

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Update: I've finished the plot for Hikarina, totaling 54 pages, and a side story about Hikari. My next plan is to design the setting concept for this story. Thank you for waiting.

He doesn't have enough Kenari left to manipulate or persuade. All he can do is plead:

«No!» he says, and, «Not hurt!» And then, voice weak: «Please…»

The masked woman freezes, spear poised to strike. Cassian makes himself look away from Jyn and focus on the the other woman.

The woman says something. He doesn't understand. The sounds are right in a way that aches deep in his chest, but the best he can do is make out a verb tense here, a location participle there.

And then: «Who are you? Where did you come from?»

He doesn't have the vocabulary to explain the situation, let alone to lie convincingly. And the dart is doing its work, pulling him toward unconsciousness. The only strategy he has left is the truth:

«I'm Kassa. Of… of the Greenwater." Her gasmask is decorated like a veteran hunter's facepaint. How did he miss that?

The masked woman goes still. If it weren't for the hiss of the respirator, she might not have been breathing.

She gestures to Jyn with her spear. «Who is she?» she asks. Or maybe, «What is she?»

And the only thing he can think to say is, "La amo."

Where’s Kerri?!😩