It wasn't that Kanan had been in any hurry to part ways with Hera and Zaluna; really, the opposite couldn't have been more true. But, besides the fact that he had to leave a trail placing him on Gorse through all the previous action so that he'd be just another suicide flier who'd left the planet when work dried up, he'd come back to this galaxy
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He could see why she'd been so frustrated over Expedient.
"You know," he said, walking another lap around the Ghost, expression a mix of wonder and awe, "I think we can fit the Escape in her."
Hera's ship was significantly larger than his, it so happened.
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"My ship," he explained. "What, you thought a guy like me would settle for Expedient?"
No sane pilot would settle for Expedient.
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And then they were over a planet. Alarmed, Hera checked her instruments, but they definitely hadn't gone through hyperspace. "Kanan...?"
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And if Portalocity hadn't pulled through for them, he would've taken his blaster with him to chat to whoever ran the outlet in his galaxy, and he would've demonstrated some interesting places to shove it.
"This is it, all right. And we're aiming for--" He leaned over and entered some coordinates. "There."
A beat.
He decided against adding, 'So long as the island hasn't gone wandering again.'
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"Okay, fine." She opened comms, but they were...really quiet. "Not a lot of traffic, is there?" There were hardly even any satellites. "Chop, can you find anything?"
The droid beeped and whistled, then plugged into the ship, and after a few moments opened a channel with familiar-sounding traffic chatter in Basic and a few other languages Hera'd never heard before.
"Do we contact or avoid them?" Hera asked. This was Kanan's bolt-hole, after all.
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NASA would get a kick out of two total strangers in a ship with faster-than-light capabilities asking where they had clearance to land from orbit, he was sure.
"This world isn't completely backrocket, but it's close. They don't get out much, you could say."
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