'Snow'
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The couple’s suite was indeed worth the extra credits.
Rose swooned at the entrance to the room's refresher: all warm tones and rustic and complete with a metal, free-standing soaking tub.
1/9 “It’s been *so long* since I’ve had a real bath.”
“You *are* aware this isn’t some holiday, yes?” Hux said tersely, frowning at the simple yet cozy surroundings. “We have /objectives/.”
“Yeah, but you said we weren’t heading out until tomorrow anyway,”
2/9

'Jingle'
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Hux led them from their docking bay and into the spaceport’s surrounding city as if he had the winding streets committed to memory. Maybe he did, though Rose knew it had been many years since the former General had...
1/7

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stepped foot on his home planet.
She kept close on his heels, but the days of hovering her hand over her blaster in his presence had long since passed.
After their many missions together, Rose might have even considered their arrangement teetering on amiable;
2/7

'Tinsel'
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The lights of the spaceport glittered through the rain; fragile, fractured tinsel. Cold, but beautiful, and the air tasted of brine. It felt like night, though by the ship’s calculations, it was merely mid-afternoon.
“Does it always...
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rain here like this?” Rose asked, turning from the end of the shuttle’s ramp, hands buried in the pockets of her jacket. Her breath clouded white.
“More often than not,” came the curt, almost bored reply as the man she’d traveled with turned up his coat collar,
2/5

"Adventure'
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He seemed to hesitate a moment, caught up in the strength of her conviction.
“Well?” she goaded him when he kept silent, his lips pressed tight despite the tempest in his gaze. “Go on.” Though barely any space between them already,
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she drew closer. “What do /I/ want, Hux?”
The challenge in her voice seemed to stir him.
“You, Miss Tico, want what men and women have always wanted, since the dawn of the galaxy: freedom.”
That was not an answer she’d been expecting.
Swallowing hard, she gathered her wits.
2/14

'Under the Stars'
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She wanted to take a chunk out of him. He could see it in the hungry slant of her mouth; in the sharp fixation of her gaze. No doubt Commander Tico would be professionally satisfied if the Order and the Resistance could...
1/13

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settle on a mutually beneficial peace agreement, but that wasn’t all she wanted. Not deep down.
No, deep down, beneath the politely-vague niceties and the crisply-pressed fatigues— no doubt scraped of mud and filth for this specific meeting—
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