[ she rubs her hands down her legs a couple times, clenching and unclenching her fists before her hands still, curling around the edge of the bench seat. it leaves her half hunched over, like the weight of her past is physically pressing down on her. ]

We were running from Krennic, that's why we left. Papa couldn't work for them anymore so we left. [ she knew without knowing for most of her childhood, the way a child reads tension. her father was unhappy, it made her unhappy, but then on lah'mu he was just her papa again and it was okay. ] She called Saw, when they came.

[ her eyes close against the memories but they're all she can see. ]

We had a plan. We would all go and hide and wait until Saw came and then we'd go to a new planet. But Papa-- [ she stumbles over the word, unused to it still ] -- he made us go without him. And then Mama made me go without her. She went back for him.

[ she straightens up, eyes opening, voice turning to steel. ]

And Krennic shot her in the grass.