[i'm a scholar, istredd says, like that somehow saves him from some kind of consequence. like the empire doesn't take scientists against their will and force them to —
(had her father been taken, or had he gone willingly with the man in white, that day on lah'mu? it's not like she's heard from him ever since, but that's what she still can't figure out. saw had thought the latter — for whatever his word is worth, considering he'd left her, too. and, anyway, it's not —
it's not relevant right now, one fucking way or another. she hasn't been her father's daughter, hasn't been jyn erso, in a long time.)
her jaw sets, with a visible clench at the pity when the line of thought she'd just cut already has her on edge. her hands remain by her sides, one picking at a loose thread on her clothes for something to do.]
If anyone can find an answer, it's a scholar, right? [it isn't an attack, but there is a little bite to jyn's voice, as well as a drip of sarcasm.] Has to be one out there, if we came here in the first place.
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(had her father been taken, or had he gone willingly with the man in white, that day on lah'mu? it's not like she's heard from him ever since, but that's what she still can't figure out. saw had thought the latter — for whatever his word is worth, considering he'd left her, too. and, anyway, it's not —
it's not relevant right now, one fucking way or another. she hasn't been her father's daughter, hasn't been jyn erso, in a long time.)
her jaw sets, with a visible clench at the pity when the line of thought she'd just cut already has her on edge. her hands remain by her sides, one picking at a loose thread on her clothes for something to do.]
If anyone can find an answer, it's a scholar, right? [it isn't an attack, but there is a little bite to jyn's voice, as well as a drip of sarcasm.] Has to be one out there, if we came here in the first place.