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[realists]

My mother was killed when I was eight and my father was taken to work for the Empire. I was raised by a rebel but in the Aerie I didn't have Saw. Had I gone with my father I would have been that woman.

At least I only lost two parents there and not three.

[ it was a kinder life, for her. ]

[livrer]

The smallest of mercies perhaps

[ Though to experience that much loss for someone so young ... it isn't even that he feels an unshakeable connection to Jyn because of their shared history in the Aerie, but that he knows loss down to his soul and he hates that for anyone to experience. ]

Do you have people here?

[realists]

I'm getting sick of mourning my parents

I have someone from home and I've made friends here.

[ of all the things to be cagey about, she chooses cassian right this minute but she can't erase that frisson of shame that lingers from the aerie. ]

[livrer]

[ That's ... a sentiment he can relate to on some account. The mourning part, anyway. He's sick of mourning his loved ones too, but it's also something he can't (and won't) let go of. ]

Good

I'm glad you have people

[ Jyn obviously has him too, now, but that doesn't need saying, does it? ]

[realists]

You are one of them, to be clear.

You may already know this but I've recently been surrounded by men who are tremendously stupid so I'm making absolutely sure to be clear.

[livrer]

[ A chuckle she will never hear, but can probably imagine.

It's like she'd read his mind. ]

Of course

I appreciate the clarification

And I am honoured

[realists]

As well you should be.

[ it is AN HONOUR TO KNOW HER!!! for someone with the self-worth of a moulding potato, jyn is still a spitfire in the face of actual emotions. ]

When we first met you called yourself Booker, but I've known you as Sébastien for years

Or what felt like years because of time dilation, two weeks on this Earth.

Have you got a preference?

[livrer]

Booker

It's a nickname more than anything but I prefer it

Sébastien is my birth name but I haven't used it for many years

[ Except on IDs and in alternate realities. ]

[realists]

[ good thing she asked because she... would not have chosen booker ]

I'll try

[livrer]

[ Book chuckles lightly, even though she won't hear it. ]

It's okay

For you, you can use whatever you'd like

[ She gets sister privileges. ]

[realists]

Your brother, your family, they are here, aren't they?

[ he'd mentioned his brother before, when he'd valiantly come to her aid in searching out turmeric, and she does read everything on the network.

andy anderson and joe jones had mentioned a booker months ago. ]

[livrer]

They are, yes

My brothers Joe and Nicky, my sisters Andy and Nile

I believe you knew Andy in the Aerie but she was someone completely different there

[realists]

Well, I provoked her

[livrer]

You

What?

[ Jyn ........ pls ]

[realists]

You've met me, this cannot be a surprise to you.

Who else would be foolish enough to provoke a Cardinal?

[ definitely his sister who also suggested murdering a different cardinal ]

[livrer]

[ She sure did; he remembers that too. ]

And yet I was still surprised

Right up until you reminded me

[realists]

Don't worry, I don't hold it against her.

I was a twat. I would've deserved it.

[livrer]

I wouldn't go so far as to say you deserved it

[ He'd ... heard some of the stories of what Andromache had done to people, not because they'd done anything wrong but because she was bored or they'd annoyed her. They were beneath her — as he had been.

Andy is more than capable of hurting people too, she has thousands of years of knowledge after all, but she doesn't because she is one of the best people he knows. ]

You would like her here though

And I think she would like you too

[realists]

I liked her in the Aerie.

[ in a very "do i want to be her or be under her" kind of way, but she remembers andy holding five year old jyn's hand as she waited to be granted her power and that never really left her. ]

It sounds like you want me to date your sister

[livrer]

[ lol ]

What you do or don't do with Andy is your own prerogative

[ He ain't judgin' if that's what they're both into, okay. ]

[realists]

I'll keep that in mind

[ in case cassian ever wants a threesome ]

[livrer]

[ Speaking of which. ]

This someone from home

It's Cassian, isn't it?

[realists]

Yeah

Why?

[livrer]

It was a hunch

[realists]

Hmmm.

Was the hunch that Cassian told you?