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[jedi_librettist]

Ben picked a seat in the corner of the galley. There was something homey and comforting about watching his brother cook. The last of the tension he'd carried melted away.

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[jedi_librettist]

Ben opens his water and pouts at his brother. "For me?"

[middleoftheforce]

"I can... maybe look into it."

[jedi_librettist]

"You don't have to. I can make a couple podracers. We can go to some backwater. Maybe Jakku."

[middleoftheforce]

"I'm not going back to that junkyard," Solo says automatically. He'd made a promise.

[jedi_librettist]

"It's better than Tattooine," Ben points out. "There are no hutts."

[middleoftheforce]

"We could find some other scrapyard. There's a few of them."

[jedi_librettist]

"No hutts."

Ben knows scrap yards other than Tattooine and Jakku. There are hutts on all of them.

[middleoftheforce]

"Hutts don't own all the scrapyards. More own fighting pits or cantinas."

Solo'd been a few. Which one, he wouldn't make clear.

[jedi_librettist]

Ben knew at least as much about the hutts as his brother. The problem was the hutts dominated the Outer Rim and almost all the scrap yards were in the Outer Rim.

"Yeah. Around all the scrap yards."

[middleoftheforce]

"Not all of them."

But he doesn't look happier at that prospect.

[jedi_librettist]

Ben took in his brother's look.

"What's wrong with them?"

[middleoftheforce]

Solo looks down, swirling the water in the canister in thought.

"Like them or not, Hutts keep some ... weird kind of order." There was grimness in his expression. "These other places aren't places you go if you've got another option."

[jedi_librettist]

"Then we go to Jakku."

It's simple. Jakku had no hutts and was safe. It really isn't that nad.

[middleoftheforce]

"Jakku is a junkyard. Ships go there to die."

[jedi_librettist]

"It's safe. There are no hutts. I can get the parts I need to make a couple podracers. There's the open space to race them away from people."

[middleoftheforce]

Solo just rolled his eyes.

"I hate Jakku. Too much sand."

[jedi_librettist]

"Better sand than swamps."

Ben grimaced.

[middleoftheforce]

He can't help the eventual sigh

"You'll clean the ship of every trace of sand."

[jedi_librettist]

Ben nods, looking extremely relieved.

"That's not that hard."

[middleoftheforce]

There's a huff of a laugh.

"Yeah. Just wait."

[jedi_librettist]

"Just you wait."

It really wasn't all that hard.

[middleoftheforce]

He couldn't help but wonder if his brother would be saying that after it seemed like the traces of sand would never end.

[jedi_librettist]

The Force makes a lot of impossible things possible.

[middleoftheforce]

Thanks for reminding him.

"And don't use the Force. Force cleaning is never as good a job."

Speaking from experience.

[jedi_librettist]

"Clearly you've never had to clean all the sand out of a wreck in an hour."

Speaking from experience.