Lonely I, I'm so alone now [open]

[provenforce]

WHO: Rey and you?
WHAT: Rey settling in to live in the hold
WHEN: after August 10
WHERE: various spots all over Skyhold
NOTES: I have a permissions post for her jedi magics if you're so inclined, if you want a specific starter hmu on pm or plurk.

i. the ramparts

Rey is used to feeling alone. Most of her life has been a self-fulfilling prophecy of loneliness, and every time she thought she may have found a friend she was betrayed or abandoned. Standing on the ramparts overlooking the valley of the mountains she had learned were called the Frostbacks, she wraps her arms a little tighter around herself, reflecting. She'd really thought for a second that she had found her true place in the galaxy, her true calling. Now, she doesn't know what she's supposed to do.

"Probably should have gone back to Jakku," she mutters to herself, a humorless smile touching her lips as she shivers in the wind.

ii. the main hall

She picked a table that looked fairly out of the way, but was near enough to one of the sconces that she could see what she was doing. She isn't trying to stand out, and she keeps her head down, eyes focused on the partly disassembled lightsaber on the table in front of her. She's never worked on a lightsaber before, but the best way to figure out how to fix something is usually to take it apart. Everything she's carefully meticulous about, because she wants to remember how to put it back together. It's not really hers after all. Luke Skywalker would probably be upset if she ruined his old lightsaber.

"Looks like this piece blew out and..." she occasionally mutters something, as she figures out why exactly the lightsaber doesn't seem to be working, when it had been in fine working order before she'd passed through the Rift. It likely won't make sense to anyone passing by her little makeshift worktable.

iii. the library

In her wandering, Rey finds herself in Skyhold's library, and in an odd state of reverence. Paper and leather-bound books are extremely uncommon on Jakku, the weather and poor living conditions making it extremely impractical to keep something that could become ruined so easily. She walks the stacks, just looking at all the different books, and absently picking one with an interesting script on the spine. She opens it, expecting to find a new world of knowledge, but the look of disappointment that flashes across her face is plain as she realizes she can't read the script on the page.

"This isn't Basic, how do they read this?" she frowns down at the pages, turning a few as if that will divulge it's secrets.

Comments

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[thecookery]

What the deal is with the junk on the table is a complete mystery to her, but really that is the least of Avery's concerns at the moment. Half in and half out of one of the hall's side-passages, she's frowning deeply and clearly scanning the room for... something? Or someone?? And only stopping to look at Rey when she fails to find what she's been looking for, probably just because she happens to be the closest person who doesn't look too important to bother.

"Oi," she calls, though not too loudly. "You there. You seen a kid in a stupid little hat run through here?"

[provenforce]

The way Rey looks up when she's called to probably makes it obvious she hasn't seen a damn thing going on around her. She blinks at the woman standing in the passage, before shaking her head.

"No I haven't, sorry."

[thecookery]

Avery scowls deeper and pinches the bridge of her nose, eyes closed, hoping to fight off this impending headache. "Great. Now what am I supposed to do?"

The question is more bitterly mumbled to herself than actually directed at Rey. Hell, she may or may not have already forgotten the girl was there at all.

[provenforce]

She knows that the woman is speaking more to herself than Rey, but she can't help but feel a little bad. Typically she'd be more observant, but the lightsaber was an entirely new toy for her to play with. She got a little lost.

"Is... there anything I can help with?" she asks slowly, after glancing around, as if expecting the child the woman is looking for to materialize.

[thecookery]

Avery pauses, lifting her head just enough to give Rey a dubious look. Strange person. Strange clothes. Strange object(s?) in her hands. Another Rifter maybe? She's really not sure what to make of her.

"Do you know how to find lazy lads and keep them from skiving off work? Because that could be pretty helpful about now."

[provenforce]

The smile on Rey's face is somewhat apologetic as she shakes her head.

"No better than anyone else, I'm afraid. I'm not much of a tracker."

[thecookery]

"Well then unless you just really feel like carrying half a crate of apples up some stairs," Avery says as if she already knows the answer, "I'm out of luck."

Before she even finishes the sentence, she's begun silently plotting out how she's going to carry the stupid thing all by herself without making multiple trips.

[provenforce]

"I've hauled scrap metal across sand dunes, I could carry a crate of apples," she finds herself reasoning before really registering what she's agreeing to. Of course once she does she tilts her head to the side, before quickly starting to piece the lightsaber back together.

"Just give me a minute to put this away, I don't want to forget how it goes together."

[thecookery]

Okay, that definitely surprises her. Skeptically, she raises an eyebrow at Rey and asks, "Really?"

[provenforce]

"I may as well make myself useful somewhere," Rey replies, her hands working quickly, almost like she's pieced a millions similar components back together a million times before. "I don't like sitting around, my entire life I've been in motion. It's strange not knowing what I should be doing, here."

[thecookery]

Avery watches her work, the mystery of this strange, intricate puzzle and what its purpose could actually be is completely lost on her. Knowing Rifters, she's not sure she even wants to ask.

"I can't say nothing about 'should,' but there's always something or other that needs doing around here. If you've a mind for--" She motions to the bits in Rey's hands. "--fixing things. Building things. There's a forge down below. Maybe there's some work to be done there."