[semi-open] I will be your shining light

[provenforce]

WHO: Rey, Obi-Wan, open
WHAT: a reunion, and open
WHEN: after the rifters get to Kirkwall, and throughout Cloudreach.
WHERE: the docks, the Gallows
NOTES: will add if they become relevant

The Docks - Obi-Wan

Rey is tired after the trip to Orlais and looking forward to taking a bath and sleeping in her own bed for a change. But she can't help opening her senses as she disembarks, feeling out the Force, looking for Ben. What she doesn't expect is to sense someone else, someone she had grimly accepted she would never feel again.

She stops where she stands, Padawan looking at her quizzically as she freezes, trying to zero in on where he is. Obi-Wan.

When she determines the direction she takes off running down the docks, the Force guiding her. She catches sight of him and pushes herself faster, even as her vision blurs from tears welling in her eyes. She doesn't slow down until she crashes into him, throwing her arms around him with a sob. She's been so unsure of so much lately, but she can't help the profound relief washing over her as she feels the presence of her master once again.

Open - Training yard

She's back to one lightsaber, not that she minds. It's easier to control one than two, and she's more comfortable this way. The lightsaber that she had come to think of as hers in her hand, her first line of defense against demons and whatever else stands in her way.

For the moment she's running through her forms, things she learned under Obi-Wan, and a few she'd improvised, modified from Kylo Ren's fighting style. She holds the ignited saber in front of her, sweeping it in a slow arc, pacing her breathing, before speeding up, taking herself through motions she's practiced what feels like a thousand times, now.

Her chosen training spot is a little out of the way, but the low hum of the saber usually attracts some attention.

Open - Rey's Workshop

Often in the evenings, unless Rey is working on something or wanting private time, she'll leave the door to her room open so that Padawan can come and go, and so that others who might need her services can pop in. Or just so friends can pop in. The usual organized chaos of her room stands regardless of the day, and she is usually sitting at her desk, bent over something or another.

Her current project is another series of mini trebuchets that can be used in the obstacle course, and they sit around her desk in a varied state of disarray, some fully constructed, others waiting to be finished. She will look up when someone walks in, and if it's someone she doesn't recognize her tools will go down and she'll stand, asking who they are. If it's a friend they'll just get a smile and a wave as Rey finishes whatever she's in the middle of doing. She can talk and tinker, she's good at multitasking.

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[nadasharillen]

It's a blessing to be working with so many diligent people; when Nari peeks around the doorframe, she isn't surprised at all to see that Rey takes her work home with her as well. The elf announces herself with a soft knock and the rustle of parchment.

"Oh, good, I was just thinking about those," she says, pointing her chin at the desk full of little siege machines, "I thought you might want to go over the plans together and figure out where they'd be best placed so you could fine-tune the weights?" The paper noises intensify as she holds up a handful of rough sketches while still trying to keep a wider roll tucked beneath her arm.

[provenforce]

Rey looks up at the knock and smiles when she sees who is at the door, waving her in as she finishes up the gear she's screwing into place.

"I've made a few sketches too but they definitely need refining," she nods her head, indicating papers laid out on the part of the desk not covered in pieces parts, before pushing back in her chair. "I'm still working on that mechanism to connect more than one so they can fire in succession. I'm not quite sure how to do that yet." If she were doing this back home it would simply be a reprogramming matter, but doing things the low tech way can be very time consuming. Not that she entirely minds, she enjoys the challenge.

[nadasharillen]

The possibility of successively firing trebuchets that didn't need to be set off one by one was exciting on about five different levels and Nari's eyes immediately light up with enthusiasm. She's moved briskly half way across the room on her way to look at the papers Rey had indicated before she realizes she didn't ask if she could see them, so she pauses guiltily and gestures at the pile that was her target.

"Oh, I--uh, do you mind?"

[provenforce]

"By all means, go ahead." It's strange, that Rey is comfortable sharing ideas openly with Nari. But the elf had proven reliable, and unlike on Jakku, Rey has learned that people in Thedas aren't all trying to screw you out of something.

"I could use another set of eyes, anyway." She'd thought about asking Ben, but he might come up against the same road blocks she is. Nari may have a perspective someone from a technologically advanced place wouldn't.

[nadasharillen]

Flashing a quick grin, Nari finishes covering the distance and leans over Rey's plans, whistling thoughtfully between her teeth. There's not much new that can be done with the general form of the trebuchet, but the trigger mechanism she's got marked here is a more elegant one. And one that, if they lay some connecting rope right--

"If we place them all in a row so they're part of the run-up to the wall... hnn. It would be a more delicate thing, setting them, but... what if you connected the lever arm of the first to the trigger of the next so that the first shot firing would set the next off?" She chews at her lip a bit. "That might slow it down and then you'd have to recalculate the counterweight, but, it might be worth a try in any case?"

And then, after a second look and a delighted chuckle, "And if it works, you might want to pass that design up to Commander Coupe."

[provenforce]

Rey stretches as Nari looks over her plans, standing and moving over to the fireplace to get the kettle warming there and pour herself a cup of coffee and one for Nari as well. She wanders back and places both mugs down on the desk and leans over the plans too, her bottom lip between her teeth as she considers Nari's suggestions, her mind going even as the other woman talks.

"That's good. I actually think that if I maybe added an interlocking trigger with pieces of metal rather than rope they could all be reset from the first one, rather than having to do it manually each time." Rey grabs her pencil, jotting down the modifications. "I doubt that anything exists like that already but the mechanism shouldn't be hard to produce in the forge."

[nadasharillen]

Nari hums approvingly at the suggestion. "I think I see what you're getting at, and if it does exist I haven't seen its like. It'd certainly work for the course, but scaling it up-- if that's something the division was interested in-- might be a bit harder. We need most of that metal for arms and armor," she raises a questioning eyebrow, "which is not a problem where you're from?"

[provenforce]

Nari has a fair point, one that Rey should have been aware of, but she was getting a little caught up in the project. She smiles a little sheepishly, nodding her head.

"Metal is one thing that's always been in abundance where I'm from. We could probably use wood for most of the mechanism instead for larger ones... It may break down faster but it could be reinforced with bolts."

[nadasharillen]

Nari hadn't meant to cause any embarrassment, so she shakes her head quickly, "We design with what we know. That's part of why it's a gift to work with you, Chloe, and Kylo. You think outside the limitations the rest of us have grown with, and it's already given us an edge that Corypheus and his army doesn't have.

If we were to be in a siege situation, the metal we have may well be better used in this kind of design. A better assault on fortifications means fewer ground troops needed, which means less arms and armor needed, and most importantly, means fewer deaths." She crosses her arms and shifts her stance, considering. Thinking about a full-on assault wasn't pleasant, not with having come to care for several of the people who were likely to be in that front-line.

"That's for another day, though. It'll work brilliantly for what we've got going here."

[provenforce]

Rey's eyebrows shoot up at the mention of Kylo, and she quickly tries to cover it by frowning deeply down at her sketchpad, like she's concentrating very intently. She's glad to hear he's working with others, though. Even if he'd been sort of reluctant about it.

She nods at what Nari's saying, looking up at her with a small smile.

"It works on the small scale, we can worry about the bigger picture when we get there." If they got there, which is entirely likely. A full-scale assault against Corypheus had to happen eventually, but it's not something she loves thinking about. It'd be easier if they could just keep going the way they have been. But nothing is ever easy.

[nadasharillen]

Having wanted to mention her gratitude for the rifters that were working with the team, it'd felt right to name them all. Nari would, however, be lying if she were to say she hadn't been watching Rey a tiny bit closer when she mentioned the tall taciturn fellow who had arrived from wherever it was they both called home; catching the flying eyebrows makes a smile twitch at the corner of her mouth.

There was still a bit of business, however, so she hefts and waves the larger scroll she'd come in with. It's a familiar one, the overall layout of their course.

"Have you got room to stretch this out so we can add in some positioning notes on these?"

[provenforce]

"Um," Rey hesitates, looking around her room for a surface large enough to accommodate the plans without needing major rearranging. After a moment she nods her head, standing to make her way over to the table near the fire, sweeping a variety of oddly shaped and brightly colored blocks off into a box set beside the table.

"Over here," she says, lifting up what will look to Nari like just a weird vaguely disc-shaped object made up of blocks similar to the ones she just swept into the box, but to anyone who knows, it's a model of the YT-1300f light freighter known as the Millennium Falcon. She carefully sets the model down on a smaller table next to one of the chairs near the fireplace, before turning back to the table.

[nadasharillen]

Nari tilts her head to peer curiously at the model as it's lifted and moved. It's not made out of any material she's seen before. "Something from your world?" she asks, nodding at it while unrolling the plan on the table. She pulls a palmful of pebbles from a pouch at her belt and drops them within reach of the both of them, moving a few of them to prospective places for the little siege engines.

[provenforce]

Rey smiles and nods.

"It's a model of my ship. The Millennium Falcon. Funny thing is, this box of blocks came through a rift, complete with instructions on how to put this together." She could have figured it out without the instructions, of course, but the instructions had been interesting. Logos had been scratched out, and the words had been a language she didn't know, but the pictures had been easy to follow along with.

crouching down next to the table Rey looks over the plans, a small smile on her face. They'd certainly done something impressive, despite not having high tech tools at their disposal.

[nadasharillen]

Hearing Rey call it a ship makes Nari look back at it again. How was that a ship? Must be one of those ones that fly. She shakes her head-- amazing.

"Do you miss it?" she asks, frowning thoughtfully and shifting a few of the stones back and forth before gesturing for Rey to change them about. After all, she knew more about the capabilities of her machines than Nari did. "Flying, I mean."

[provenforce]

Rey chews on her lip as she looks over the plans, picking up a few stones and moving them around, nudging a few of the ones Nari placed into slightly different positions.

"I do. I used to fill my hours with flight simulators, and when I got to fly for real..." she remembers that first time. It hadn't been the Falcon, it had been the ship that she'd rebuilt from a buried Ghtroc 690 the wind storms had unearthed. The ship that Devi and Strunk had stolen from her. Still, the memory of the flight is a good one.

"There's nothing like flying."

[nadasharillen]

She can imagine, sort of, inasmuch as one can envision something they have no true allegory for. A quilt of bits and pieces; the endless sky seen from the top of a cliff, the feeling of ascent in a jump, the wind rushing past in the tight corridor of a ravine. What the loss of such a combination might be.

"I'm sorry," Nari says simply. She darts her eyes across the rocks. They look good, so she pulls the charcoal stick from behind her ear and starts lifting them, drawing little stylized triangles in the places Rey had marked. "I know what it's like to miss a home you may never return to. It must be harder still to miss an entire world." She pauses for a few moments in respect of that before casually saying "But you have someone to miss it with now, hm? Kylo's from your plane, isn't he?"

[provenforce]

Rey sits back on her heels, watching Nari sketch the triangles out, her lips pressed together. She does miss home, but there's so many things here in Thedas that she's come to care about. She has more friends here than she'd ever had in her life back there.

It's a strange feeling, to both miss something and not, at once.

At the mention of Kylo her eyes shift to Nari, nostrils flaring slightly.

"Yeah, he is. Two more from our galaxy showed up in this last rift, too. Obi-Wan is back, and Poe Dameron."

[nadasharillen]

She'll lift her eyebrows, finishing up the rest of the marks. "So many! Are you pleased to see them all?"

It's not as if Rey could choose who falls out of the Rifts.

[provenforce]

"I don't know Poe well, but I'm happy to see him. B--Kylo I wasn't happy to see, at first." She winkles her nose a little, having barely caught herself on his name. She doesn't like calling him Kylo, but he still introduces himself as such, so she's trying to respect it.

"I think this place will be good for him, though. And Obi-Wan... He's from a time before mine but he was here before. We grew close, so I'm very happy he's back." The smile is back as she lifts herself up, moving to sit on the edge of one of the chairs. "I didn't really think I'd see so many people from there here."

[nadasharillen]

"I'm glad your friend has returned to you," Nari says with a smile. Especially since it meant that rifters could return. Maybe there was hope for Sam and Cyril yet.

The smile quirks up into a grin. "I don't suppose Poe and Obi-Wan are also builders?" she asks. The group of them seemed to be from one of the most advanced universes as far as technology went. Perhaps someday Rey could even fly again.

"And Kylo... at first?"




[sorry I was gone~~ lmk if you ever just want to wrap the rest :) ]

[provenforce]

"Obi-Wan not so much, Poe... I don't know. Any pilot worth his salt should be able to do maintenance on their own craft, but I don't know him that well." She looked forward to that changing. Finn and BB-8 had spoken so highly of the man, she hoped he lived up to her expectations. The Best Pilot in the Resistance, supposedly.

At Nari's next question Rey tries not to blush, sitting back in her chair all the same, like shifting away from where the light is brightest will help.

"We've... resolved some of our differences." More than some, really.

[ never girl-talk forever. ]

[nadasharillen]

[eeexcellent~]


"I suppose having had some previous differences explains him alternating between looking like a stormcloud and watching you thoughtfully," Nari replies lightly, trying (and failing, given that her eyes are obviously alight with mischief) to pretend she's not fishing for a reaction.

All right, so maybe she wants to be the one doing the teasing once in a while.

[provenforce]

Rey looks over at Nari, her brow furrowed at that.

"W-Oh. While we were working on the obstacle course." She bites the inside of her lip, looking away from the elf for a moment before looking back at her. "We used to be enemies. I'm the one that gave him that scar on his face."

[nadasharillen]

"That certainly counts as previous differences," Nari says wryly, shifting to lean her hip on the table. "But if you were able to come to this kind of peace so quickly, it seems like the source of it may have been however things were in your world, not how things truly are between the two of you."