open ✧ a head full of stars, just not in constellation yet

[realists]

Who: Jyn & y'all
Where: Home & Around (Go Ask Alice, work, running)
When: June 28-July 3
What: Surprise Jyn's not dead anymore
Warnings: Mentions of past character death in passing

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Jyn doesn't venture very far that first day -- between Cassian's house and her own is about the size of it -- but once she is home she settles on the front porch with a cup of tea (hot, she doesn't believe in iced tea) and just looks at the town from her porch.

The days following finds her more adventurous, returning to her normal business. She goes back to work with Peter's exterminator business, cleaning up what remains of the carcasses of rodents around town. It's disgusting. She drops in Go Ask Alice for her lemon cookies that she suggests they just rename "Jyn's Lemon Cookies", settling at a table by the window to carefully construct elaborate and downright absurd mathematical puzzles for Mary. Not a single one of them is age appropriate for a seven year old but it doesn't seem to stop Jyn from designing them with what she learned from her father. She starts her daily runs again -- morning and night -- though now she actually does steer clear of the woods, observing the mess of the town as she passes, sneakers pounding against the pavement steadily.

It's business as usual.

Comments

[coy]

"Peter did what, now?" Caroline's careful to navigate the wagon so she doesn't do the house or door frame any damage. She follows Jyn without any issues and when Jyn just comes right out with it, Caroline isn't that surprised.

"I was. Those bullets would have killed any human but apparently it just gave me a few days of uninvited, forced sleep." She says the words bluntly but still with some delicacy, waiting to see what Jyn's reaction was. After all, Poe's had been so different, more accepting than what she'd ever imagined it would be.

Maybe it was a space thing.

[realists]

Maybe it is a space thing because Jyn doesn't bat an eyelash at the implication Caroline isn't human. She grew up surrounded by aliens, Coruscant especially was full of different species moving in an out because the Senate was on Coruscant. Has and Nari were very much not human. Heck, she was born on a planet where she and her parents were the only humans.

"Did you wake up feeling rested? 'cause all I wanted when I woke up was a nap." Dying was apparently exhausting, but when she'd woken up the first time all she wanted was a nap, also.

She's just curious. Maybe she'll take a coma.

[coy]

Caroline glanced at Jyn then, remembering that she'd died. Caroline knew how that felt. "Dying and coming back to life is about the same as waking up from a coma. Been there, done both a few times." Yep.

"Napping is good for the soul."

[realists]

"If I turn a couple into a few times, Cassian will kill me." The irony. But still, Jyn doesn't seem to question Caroline's deaths, even it she looks at her at little more appraisingly, pushing the back door open to let them out into the back yard.

"So if you're not human, what are you? There's this one species, the Tognath, they're basically immune to pain because their nervous system is so... basic. But." She pauses for a beat. "They can still die, I suppose. It just won't hurt."