Inexplicable - A Star Wars Story
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  • Parts 6
  • Time 40m
  • Reads 291
  • Votes 4
  • Parts 6
  • Time 40m
Ongoing, First published Feb 23, 2021
Crouched in front of a scrap pile, she combed through it with deft fingers, picking out the ones valuable to her and keeping them clenching in her palms until she had two handfuls. Swiveling slightly, she wiggled her right hand into the top of the sack, past the gathering rope that held the top closed, dropping the pieces into the animal hide she had commandeered to hold her things.
 
Reflexively, the girl's head jerks up and looks around when she hears the sudden alarm-like sound that fills the air. She quickly drops the other handful into her bag and pops up to her feet and races back to the barracks. The 'herders', as she called them, always warned that there would be hell to pay if you weren't back by the five-minute mark after the call. 
 
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"What're you- where are you going?"

"Looking for that Droid."

"I said no."

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Orphaned young, Idesta Terez was brought to the White Worms and became a 'scrumrat' scavenger. Day after day she would go out onto the streets of Corellia to gather what she could for the Worms and bring it back just to earn a measly amount of food and water, and a bunk to sleep in. 
 
She had always been one to go unnoticed. She was never problematic, or overly valuable to the Worm she served. None of the other children ever wanted to stay friends for long. But she got used to it. She adapted, convinced herself she didn't care and it didn't matter. Even if she knew the ache in her chest every night as she waited for sleep to take her was the deep loneliness she had known all her life. 
 
But, one day, when Idesta unknowingly angers the Worm and herders, Idesta runs. She leaves the barracks when she's not supposed to, another offense, and then runs right out of the perimeters that the scrumrats are supposed to stay within, her biggest disobedience. When she can no longer outrun the herders, she spots a silver ship and hides in it. 
 
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