Redamancy - Han Solo [3]

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"Elysandra!" Tasha shouted through the hangar, her long black hair greying slightly at the temples. A young woman stuck her head out from under one of the x-wings near Tasha's feet, sliding around on one of the mechanic's trolleys.

"Hi mum," her short hair looked like her mother's, dark and thick, but her eyes were her father's. Tasha glared slightly at her daughter, until the girl grinned cheekily. "Sorry, Admiral Solo." Her mother didn't look amused.

"Leia's been looking for you, she said you didn't show up for your briefing." Elysandra's eyebrows creased in a frown.

"My briefing isn't until 1400," Tasha raised her eyebrows, and Elysandra looked down at her watch. It was 1449. The younger girl's eyes widened.

"I'm sorry, I lost track of – Eefore why didn't you tell me!" an angry reply came from her droid unit, Arfore-Eefore, who was stuck in the droid section of her x-wing. Standing up off the trolley she wiped her hands furiously on a rag in her back pocket. She grabbed her black jacket off the side of the tool chest, sliding it on over her cream tank top. Tasha looked at it curiously.

"Isn't that my jacket?" Elysandra didn't say anything, tucking her hair behind her ears as she set off out of the hangar at a jog. Leia hated people being late.

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"Sorry General," said Elysandra, puffing slightly as she entered the briefing room, "I lost track of time." Leia looked over at the girl, eyebrows raised and gave her a slightly disapproving look.

"You know I hate people being late, Captain Ryann,"

"I know and I'm so sorry, it wont happen again."

"Isn't that what you said last time?" a voice said behind her, and Elysandra turned to see Poe Dameron leaning against the wall, looking far too smug, "and the time before that?"

"That'll do, commander," said Leia, making Poe grin cheekily, pushing himself off the wall, "now that you're here, we can start."