This one is inspired by a request from reulte.

It's not quite what you wanted (flight:Sinker) but I am in love with this poem and thought your request was a perfect excuse to use it. You also get two extra words as a thanks for your interest and kind comments.

The excerpt is from the poem "Ashes" by Vasko Popa, found in English in his Homage to the Lame Wolf

Disclaimer: See ch.1


Each night sets fire to its own star

And dances a black dance around it

Until the star burns out

Then the nights divide themselves

Some become stars

Other remain night

The last night becomes both star and night

It sets fire to itself

And dances the black dance around itself

Sinker wakes recalling strange, directed spinning, gravity-less flight.

He's talked with Boost who shudders at the memory of the droids floating toward them. Sinker doesn't remember that.

Sinker remembers the wild tapestry of stars; close enough to taste and too far away to imagine. They spin and dance behind his closed eyes; massive, insubstantial, red, yellow, blue, white. Sinker was more alive in the lifeless-space between stars than he'd ever been. He's read that ancient Mandalorians shot their dead war-beasts into stars. Sinker hopes to be flung into that macrocosm at the end and drift through the frictionless eternity into a star.