"A coin for your story, good sir," she said, slipping into a seat next to the half-drunk man. With the great kingdom of Erebor retaken and Smaug defeated, a new age of prosperity begins for the dwarves within the deep halls of the Lonely Mountain. But at what cost? For a dragon's hatred and malice runs deep. A young woman returns to the land beneath the mountain's shadow.

Jyn Erso believed more in making choices than taking chances. Surviving the Battle of Scarif forces her to find the balance between the two, especially when she's left with an imperial pilot who is struggling to rediscover his purpose in life, and a severely injured rebel captain whose moral compass has been hardened by war. Exploratory CassianxJyn.

Cassian had seen the truth, the terrifying aftermath of Jyn bleeding from her lips, eyes and nose, burns and cuts and scrapes and the deep puncture in her side from wayward debris as they raced ahead of the blast front, the cratered blaster wound in her shoulder, a mess of red and black. The 80 minutes to medical support had aged him 80 years. Jyn/Cassian (partial fix-it)