Personal Journal of Trooper CT-4738
"Cinch"
Coruscant - Home
11:02 hours
Hi. Me again. It's been a while since I wrote last. Sorry. (Am I supposed to be apologizing? It feels like I should. I don't know why.) I've been feeling better. Than last time I wrote, anyway. We've done a few missions since then, been gone a lot. One was…not good. We tried to extract some crashed pilots, but by the time we got there the Seps had found them, and… But we evacuated some civilians one other time, and we ran surveillance for this one op that needed extra eyes. Peale got to do some sniping again finally. He was happy.
Anyway, I'm writing because we have this new guy now. Big guy, pushing 2 meters at least. Something happened with his growth cycle, apparently; he just didn't stop at 10 years like the rest of us did. Or that's what I heard. Got dropped off with a comm message from our patron, telling us to take good care of him. He's been through some reconditioning, and you can really tell, because he's kind of vacant. Not as in he doesn't know what he's doing; he's every bit a trooper. But the rest of us have some kind of…personality? Is that the word I want? And he just…doesn't. The other guys have been calling him Reboot, and he doesn't seem to mind.
(It makes me uncomfortable though, when I think about it. To think that any one of us could have ended up like that, if it hadn't been for Phire Brigade.)
But there's something else about this new guy that just doesn't seem quite right. I can't explain it. Maybe it's because of the reconditioning. But sometimes when he looks at you, it feels like he's looking through you. Or into you. Like he's trying to read a holochart from the opposite side. And he just…he's got the keenest soldier sense. Maybe they're flash training that now, I don't know. Makes me wonder what he was like before the reconditioning. He always seems to know where the other guys are in the house. And the other day…
Okay the other day I had one of those…moods, again. I don't know what to call them. I said I was doing better, but I still had one. I'm sorry. But I was in my room, and I'm sure I wasn't making any noise, and then Reboot knocked on my door, and he said something like, "You okay, vod? Don't be sad. There's cookies in the kitchen."
Maybe it was a lucky guess. But I still can't figure out how he would have even guessed that. I do all my tech work in my room. Why did he think I was sad?
I haven't talked to the other guys about it yet. About Reboot, I mean. About what I think. I just want to know if they've noticed it too. The other day Mousetrap knocked something off the kitchen counter and Reboot caught it. I think it was fruit; I don't remember exactly. But I was on the couch and I just happened to see it, and I swear, I swear, Reboot's hand was there before Mousetrap even turned. I swear.
Anyway, that's the new guy.
