Chapter 5: The Messenger

Everyone else was fast asleep in their rooms on the Ghost, but Alyria was silently kicked back and scrolling through wanted lists on Lothal. It was the night the day after she was accepted onto the Ghost; nothing much happened the day she was fully recognised onto the ship, everyone just kept an eye on her while they all went about their business. She found everything in the silent room to be too quiet for her taste so she tried to leave quietly, attempting to not wake Sabine up. She was able to get the cargo bay door to open without causing much noise, hoping she didn't wake anyone up. She took her leave and sat down out in the nearby fields to look at the stars and actually hear something other than emptiness. She enjoyed the calm that came with simple pleasures like this, it kept her calm and collected. She heard rustling come from the Ghost, quickly turning to make sure that she hadn't woken anyone up. After a bit of looking she gave up, seeing as no one was over there.

When she turned around she saw sabine sitting across from her, causing Alyria to jump and let out a small yelp, having not expected her. "Could you have startled me anymore than you just did?"

"I could have, " replied Sabine, "but that would have been rude." She got up to sit next to her to get a look at where she was staring off before. "So, why are you out here?"

"Don't tell me you have never just stopped to breathe in fresh air, and look at the stars Sabine, otherwise i'm not so sure we're gonna get along." Alyria said jokingly.

Sabine jokingly punched Alyria and said, "Course' I have, just wondering why you're doing it at this time."

"It helps me think. I like to think that when you look up at a star, there is someone else, in that solar system, looking back up at our star. It's a stupid notion, but it is a soothing thought."

"I don't think it's that stupid, I'm sure others think the same way."

Alyria giggled, "Gee Sabine "not that stupid" you sure know how to make people feel good."

"Would you like me to be sarcastic and snarky? Cause' I think I can do better at that." Sabine jokingly remarked.

"Sure that sounds wonderful." replied Alyria sarcastically. A few moments of silence passed before Alyria spoke up again, "You all don't trust me, do you?"

Sabine was a little startled by this question, but knew that it was partly right. "Wh… what gave you th..."

"Please Sabine, if I wanted to hear lies, then I would have gone to talk with an Imperial."

Sabine sighed in defeat, "You are… right… to some degree. We trust you, but we just…"

"Don't trust me?"

Sabine sighed again, "It's just that we don't know you as well as we know each other, thats all."

Alyria sighed at Sabine's words. A couple minutes had passed before something started to bug Alyria. "Do you hear that?" asked Alyria.

"Hear what?" Sabine asked, trying to hear whatever Alyria was talking about.

After a few moments Alyria spotted a tie fighter in the distance. "There!" Alyria shouted, pointing in the direction of the crashing tie fighter. "Its coming towards us. Get down!" Alyria force pushed Sabine one way, and jumped in a random direction. In moments of Alyria's actions the tie fighter crashed where they were and dragged on for a bit before coming to a stop. Sabine got up and looked around to see if she could find Alyria. After a bit of looking around where she was, she started running around trying to find her, still turning up no avail.

"Boo!" came Alyria's voice from behind Sabine, giving Sabine the scare of a lifetime.

"Why you little…" started Sabine, before the rest of the Ghost's crew showed up from within the Ghost to see what happened.

"What is going on here?!" yelled Kanan.

Alyria walked over to the wreckage of the tie fighter and looked around in the cockpit while Sabine tried to explain what happened to Kanan. Once Sabine finished with her explanation Ezra commented, "So now they know where we are?"

Alyria called out, "Not unless my old "friend" has become less thrill seeking. This pilot was dead since the tie departed." Alyria found the corpse of a dead apprentice, the same one that she fought days before.

"What is that supposed to mean?" called Kanan.

"I'm assuming you all remember that Sith I fought a couple days ago. Well this is his corpse, sent by my old "pal" the Collector. good friend of your best friend, the Inquisitor."

"Wh… Nevermind… How did the Sith die before the crash?" asked Kanan.

"By the looks of it, probably by lightsaber through his heart. I found the wound under the note I found over it."

"What exactly does the note read?" asked Hera.

"I'll need to translate it, its in a writing that I haven't read in a very long time. I can have it all translated by morning, though I think we should clear out soon, before the Empire shows up."

"Fine, I'll prep the ship." said Hera.

Alyria jumped out of the tie fighter and walked with Sabine back to the Ghost. Sabine punched Alyria's shoulder for what she did earlier and said, "Thanks a lot for the scare back there."

"Ha. To think I got away with it." The two of them laughed together and went silent for the rest of the walk.

Once they got back to their room, Alyria went straight to work on translating the note, Sabine spoke up and asked, "So, what are you thinking?"

"What am I thinking? Well, I'm thinking pretty soon it's going to be story time for you and the rest of the crew."