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Chapter Fourteen

"Tam." A gentle voice whispered. "It's time to wake up."

Tam cracked her eyes open to see Kaz's stupid grin plastered across his face.

"How about no." She grumbled, moving to swat him away.

He chuckled, avoiding her lazy hand. "Come on Tam. It's already eighthundred. And they want us on the base."

Tam took another deep breath and forced herself to sit up. "For a mission?"

"Ya. At least, I think so."

"Alright. Meet you at the shuttle?"

After Kaz left her so she could get dressed, she ate a quick breakfast and hurried over to the shuttle. The flight there was pretty short, and soon they were walking and chatting about future races, while CB rolled after them.

They then reached the briefing room, where Commander Tico and another man were waiting for them.

Kaz's face lit up.

"No way! Poe! How have you been?"

The man had a slight stubble on his chin and brown swoopy hair. He chuckled. "It's good to see you too, Kaz!"

Kaz hopped forward, and Poe put a hand on his shoulder.

"Tam this is Poe Dameron." He turned to her, eyes gleaming. "He's the one who recruited me for the Resistance."

"I've heard a lot of good things about you, Tam." Poe's brown eyes inspected the pilot.

She frowned. "You don't need to lie to me, Commander."

He laughed again. "No really. Yeager talks about you a lot."

Tam tried to hide her surprise, and Kaz yipped, "Wait! You've talked to Yeager!"

Poe waved his hand and said, "About that later. Right now, mission briefing."

Kaz took a place at the roundish holotable, observing the layout. "Cantonica?"

Poe sighed. "We have some sketchy intel about a bargenar that's willing to sell some equipment."

"Sketchy?" Kaz repeated, raising his eyebrow.

Commander Tico looked up at Kaz from the holotable. "At this point we are willing to accept any help we can get."

"Uh," Tam said, "I think there may be a problem. We're wanted, so people will be looking for us." She tilted her head. "And it looks like we're going to a pretty crowded place."

Kaz hummed. "They won't be looking for Resistance agents. People there are too wound up in themselves to even notice us."

"But won't they still recognize us?"

"That's why you're going to have disguises." Poe grinned, looking back at the holotable. "Our informant is going to be attending some sort of dinner party. We figured with Kaz's knowledge and Tam's quick thinking you two could make a great team."

CB beeped that she was surprised that Kaz had any knowledge at all.

Kaz tried to ignore the sassy droid, but Tam saw the corners of his mouth twitch up. "Alright. So we get in, find the intel, swap numbers and be on our merry way?"