On base with Kay

[childofrebellion]

Cassian wants to be going on a mission again but that means getting all the pieces together.

As he's finding sleep hard to come by, he takes his datapad and goes to rest on Kay where he's recharging.

Soon he has projections of possible routes and options for a sabotage up and the plan's looking like something he can take to Draven and command for approval.

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[childofrebellion]

"Only sometimes and I heal up fine,"

Yes, he has scars but everyone does, even Kay needs repairs. Finally he gets to the right position and starts to fall asleep.

[rebel_droid]

Kay goes quiet, sensing Cassian beginning to relax.

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"I still have those statistics about things going wrong if you would like to hear them."

[childofrebellion]

Cassian chuckles to himself, but doesn't open his eyes,

"Please tell me, I'll think about them as I sleep."

[rebel_droid]

Kay is happy to oblige, and won't even mind if his figures are what put Cassian to sleep.

[childofrebellion]

The figures work well and Cassian sleeps. When he's awake, Draven approves of the mission and soon, they need to get the ship read.

Cassian's going through a list in his head and sometimes out loud, "Kay, where did you put those detonators?"

[rebel_droid]

"I put them in the proper receptacle as denoted by label," Kay replies. "You put them over there."

He points at an entirely different receptacle in the completely wrong place.

[childofrebellion]

"Oh, but didn't this used to live over here?"

There was a reason he put them over here, but for now he sighs and shifts them to the labeled container.

"That's everything on my list."

[rebel_droid]

"Yes, but I determined it was inefficient and moved it." Without telling Cassian, of course.

"Good, I shall plot course and begin my calculations."

[childofrebellion]

"Tell me when you move something next time,"

Once he's set, he closes the door and sits next to Kay to work on the route.

[rebel_droid]

Such an unreasonable request, but, as Cassian wishes.

"Cassian, I am moving me feet now," he announces as he starts to walk.

A few moments later from the front of the ship another announcement comes. "Cassian, I am moving my seat now."

When Cassian joins him up front Kay looks over and informs him, "Cassian, I am moving my arms and hands now to input the coordinates."

[childofrebellion]

"Kay, I meant when you move where something is in the ship," He did deserve that for not being specific enough and sighs and smiles as he goes over the route, "We should avoid that station. More troops are headed there."

[rebel_droid]

"But I am in the ship," he informs Cassian, matter-of-fact. Whether he's being serious or flippant only Kay knows, but he does stop announcing all of his actions.

"Avoiding the station would add a two-percent increase in our travel duration," he informs Cassian, waiting to make sure that is acceptable before altering their course.

[childofrebellion]

"That's acceptable as I saw the name of the officer headed there. He's one who keeps a close eye on everything,"

Too risky to get near him as there's a greater chance of something going wrong.

[rebel_droid]

"Very well, I shall set our course." Something that doesn't take him long at all to do.

[childofrebellion]

Cassian nods when he sees it and gets on his headphones to let the base know they're leaving, "Then let's get going."

[rebel_droid]

Given the word, Kay takes off; leaving the base and then the world behind.

[childofrebellion]

While they're in hyperspace, Cassian gets up to prepare his bag for the sabotage.

At this point, double checking, eating a ration bar and going over all the possible problems on his datapad, "We'll have to be quick. I don't like how short the shift changes are."

[rebel_droid]

"There is indeed a very narrow time window for this mission," Kay replies. "Otherwise the probability of you not dying is almost zero."

[childofrebellion]

He nods and makes a face at the horrible ration bar, "So just like most of our missions. I don't think there's another way to manage it."

[rebel_droid]

"Precisely," Kay agrees with a nod. Pretty much new dangers, different day.

[childofrebellion]

Cassian watches the stars and looks over the ship manifests to check on the timing of the second mission. Whenever he meets this informant, he makes it seem like chance which means a spaceport,

"After, we'll be heading towards a good sized hub. That way if there are problems, we can easily hide in there."

[rebel_droid]

"That is good. I would like it much better if you hid more often."

Cassian would get hurt a lot less that way.

[childofrebellion]

"I'm always hiding just sometimes the best way to hide is to be in a crowd or under their noses,"

Blending in is what he does, he's usually doing it in places where something is going on.

[rebel_droid]

"There is a distinct difference between actively hiding and concealing one's identity," Kay informs Cassian.

"I would prefer if you physically hid from sight, possibly by jumping in a box and closing the lid. Blending into a crowd still leaves you with the opportunity to be stabbed. Or robbed. Or trampled to death should that crowd become hysterical and unruly."

[childofrebellion]

"No one's tried to rob me since I think I was a boy. Being in a box wouldn't help, because I wouldn't be able to know when its safe or how to change the situation to be safer,"

And he hates not being able to know what's going on.