The Escape- Thursday afternoon

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Sabine hadn't really allowed herself to get excited about actually getting off the planet for a bit until they were off the planet. Whether it was her version of home or not, even if she had complicated feelings about things there for a lot of reasons, it was good to actually be able to go back for a bit.

"So do you have any rules about the number of explosives on your shop?"

That was another thing making her feel better.


[For he whose ship it is!]

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"All my favorite suppliers tend to have a distinct lack of window shoppers," Kanan replied, nodding his approval. "You do a lot of business with these guys?"

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"Not a ton." She hadn't been bouncing around post-Academy for that long. "But they've been my go-to whenever I needed stuff. I trust them."

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"Good enough for me," Kanan replied, nodding. "And you can get most of what you need here? I've got a hovercart in the cargo bay if we need one."

All the better for hefting explosives around without getting blown up.

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"You are prepared for this," she said, amused.

She set them down in the clearing, a totally serviceable, if slightly rusty landing.

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"I stole two from some Imperials a few months back and donated one to the scrapyard," Kanan replied, tilting his head as he paid attention to the landing. "It's a wonder I didn't have one before. Would've made smuggling much easier, back in the day."

Yeah, that landing was good enough. She'd get better. Wings up, gear down, and then his baby was on the ground. That was all it needed to be.

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Sabine even knew the shutdown procedures, even if she paused a couple times to adjust to where things were on this particular ship.

"I bet. You don't do that anymore?" She felt she had to check, just for her own personal amusement as a onetime bounty hunter.

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"I don't need to do that anymore," Kanan replied with a shrug. "I still know where to fence things if we need fast credits, I still have a few connections when it matters. But you probably won't catch me making runs with spice in the cargo hold unless I have a damn good reason."

So... you know. He could! He just didn't.

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"Which is probably for the best," she said. "Good skill to have for your line of work, though."

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"Yeah, I've done a lot of odd jobs," Kanan replied with a shrug as he popped the cockpit's canopy and stood up with a stretch. "Some of them are more useful for this than others."

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"What's a non-useful one?" Sabine asked.

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"Did a lot of bartending," Kanan offered. "Can't see me doing much of that while dealing with Imperials. Not going forward, anyhow."

It had been useful enough on Gorse.

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"You'd probably have to deal with them being pretentious about it if you did," she said wryly, getting up.

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"Oh yeah," Kanan agreed. "They expect special treatment when they wander up to the bar in uniform. Like they figure they did something to deserve it."

Kanan had opinions, there.

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"While bragging about how great they are," she said with an eye roll.

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"Yeah," Kanan sighed, shaking his head. "I know I'm not supposed to do the whole 'hate' thing, but I hate that."

Your Caleb was showing, Dume.

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"It'd be weird if you didn't hate that." She also would not understand why he wasn't supposed to.

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"Yeah, that's about what I figure," Kanan agreed, smiling crookedly. "I'm allowed to hate things that are hateful."

Bad at Jedi. Good at... balance?

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"Exactly. And you're fighting them anyway, that's how it works," she said.

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"Honestly, I'll take fighting them over pouring them drinks any day of the week," Kanan said easily. And then paused for a moment before speaking again. "Your friends here, they the sort of people we shouldn't say things like that around?"

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"I don't work with anyone who knowingly works with the Empire." It was part moral high ground, part for her own safety, just in case. "I wouldn't bring it up, though. Plausible deniability and all."

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"Fair enough," Kanan replied, "so, that conversation is dropped, then."

He lifted his chin a little.

"I'll admit, I'm looking forward to seeing just how many supplies they can provide for you here on no notice at all. They might prove to be a good resource down the road."

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"Let's hope. I'd like knowing I have someone for this again," Sabine said. "At least I can work with whatever they can get me."

She had skills.

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Kanan nodded.

"And if for whatever reason this falls through, I'll hook you up with one of my suppliers. I've been told there's a Devaronian on Lothal who deals dirty, but seems to have an in when it comes to things most people shouldn't be able to get their hands on and has a solid kind of business sense."

If you didn't mind picking up a few extra smuggling jobs here and there to win his favor, anyway.

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"Thanks. Hopefully it shouldn't come to that. It's not always the actual product as much as the quantity." That was where people saw red flags, for some strange reason.

...Maybe not with the really huge stuff.

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So help Kanan, he couldn't help but laugh.

"What, you mean people tend to get shirty when you buy large quantities of explosive materials?"