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[drunk_ish]

"Uhmmmmm." Sinjir dithers over the word. He knows the whole story -- honestly, probably more than either Wedge or Norra knows, because neither of them is a particularly insightful person. Not about other people, anyway. Sinjir didn't need to be in on any discussions to know the state of feelings or lack thereof.

He sighs. "There was a woman," he says. "Norra Wexley, actually, figures that you would know her, or know of her. She had a husband, disappeared a long time ago, very tragic. She and Wedge start moving agonizingly slowly towards some kind of flirtation. And then, there you have it, suddenly her husband is found, was in an Imperial mind-prison this whole time, look at that, she can't abandon him now, except that a few months later it turns out he was brainwashed to assassinate Mon Mothma. So now he's vanished again." He pauses, considering if he's left anything out. "Yeah, that's about how it went."

[neverjoinyou]

Luke raises an eyebrow. Wedge and Wexley? Huh. Well. That's interesting.

The rest of the story veers away from interesting into just sad, and Luke frowns, still standing quite close to Sinjir and keeping all his senses on alert for Wedge's return--and, frankly, mood.

"Poor Wedge," he breaths, shaking his head. "Poor Norra. I thought I was bad at this."

[drunk_ish]

"Wasn't anyone's fault." Except maybe for the Empire, thinks Sinjir, quietly, privately. It was definitely the Empire's fault. "The two of them were just caught in circumstances."

But Wedge has been more deeply affected by it than Sinjir thought he would be. Norra and Wedge had barely gotten started -- Wedge's disappointment is steep, and painful.

[neverjoinyou]

"He deserves something good," Luke says softly, eyes following Wedge, unseen. But he cuts them back to Sinjir. "But you know that."

[sfoils]

The top of Wedge's ears throb with heat. They're talking about him, Wedge's sure of it, but Sinjir's electric razor is unfamiliar, the white noise coming from its motor too distracting to separate from the voices outside the 'fresher. Wedge gives up and, instead, focuses on about a week's worth of fur.

He comes out looking a decade younger. "I think your droid shredded one of your towels," he says to Sinjir, stretching out the damaged cloth for everyone to see; the tears look very much like a rotating blade chewed them up.