"You could say that. She's got an engine in the back, you can change the direction it points and use flaps to steer her any way you'd like to go. Plus she's faster than anyone else. Nobody can catch her."
"Normally wild. Domesticated them because the speeders and bikes can't deal with the subzero temps outside, but the beasts can, so as much as I can't stand them...they get the job done."
He thinks.
"Walk on two legs, reins around the muzzle, you sit in a saddle and they've got a long tail to keep balance. You ever seen those lizards that run on two legs? Kinda like one of those. Except covered in fur. With horns."
"Ain't dead down there, are you?"
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"Don't put much stock in slavery, myself."
He's got an aversion to prisons of any construct.
"But how's this ship of yours work? Cuts through air like it's water?"
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On a good day.
"Makes stayin' one step ahead of trouble easier."
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Though Wade's usually keeping a step ahead of the trouble he caused.
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"We use beasts sometime t'get around, a tauntaun is sort of like a horse from earth, 'cept they're built for the snow."
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"Tauntaun," he repeats, testing the word. "You been usin' 'em there?"
His eyes flick to the discarded parka, then back to Han.
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He thinks.
"Walk on two legs, reins around the muzzle, you sit in a saddle and they've got a long tail to keep balance. You ever seen those lizards that run on two legs? Kinda like one of those. Except covered in fur. With horns."
Tauntauns.
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"You're ridin' furry dinosaurs?"
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A shrug.
"What can you do?"
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"Use 'em till you can't, I reckon."
Practical thing to do.
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"Hopefully I'll be off Hoth soon and someplace warmer."
Oh Solo, just you wait.
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-- not that Wade would know anything about that, of course.
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Yet.
A pause.
"It's kinda why I'm stayin' there awhile. Keep away from the trouble."
Not that any is following him, of course.
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Two beats, then, "Ben Wade, 1865."
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"Must've been a big damn battle. Wasn't the apocalypse, was it?"
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