For a moment, Cassian felt ten years old and his grasp of Basic utterly failed.
"She was… great. When she was younger, she was this pirate. Swaggering through the Galaxy, totally free. I didn't appreciate it at the time… I got it from peoples' stories about her. Because she also… changed to… dedicate some of herself to me. But she always had that attitude. And she kind of… carried that freedom inside her, even when it got frustrated by our world getting smaller from the Empire, her life getting smaller from her health. At the end, she… refused to be limited."
His brow furrowed and he looked out at the falls. As if confessing, he said, "It was my mission. But she never knew it. My first mission with the Rebellion that succeeded, that she heard about and inspired her to rise up again. I never told her because I didn't consider it a success. Too many people had died. And I didn't care yet what it was for. But she did. She was always way ahead of me. Showing me the way. She did that for a lot of people."
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"She was… great. When she was younger, she was this pirate. Swaggering through the Galaxy, totally free. I didn't appreciate it at the time… I got it from peoples' stories about her. Because she also… changed to… dedicate some of herself to me. But she always had that attitude. And she kind of… carried that freedom inside her, even when it got frustrated by our world getting smaller from the Empire, her life getting smaller from her health. At the end, she… refused to be limited."
His brow furrowed and he looked out at the falls. As if confessing, he said, "It was my mission. But she never knew it. My first mission with the Rebellion that succeeded, that she heard about and inspired her to rise up again. I never told her because I didn't consider it a success. Too many people had died. And I didn't care yet what it was for. But she did. She was always way ahead of me. Showing me the way. She did that for a lot of people."