reylocharityanthology: A teaser from @spottytonguedog‘s fic, How Far the Distance: Rey’s
reylocharityanthology: A teaser from @spottytonguedog‘s fic, How Far the Distance: Rey’s fiddling with the controls the first time she hears his voice. It’s unexpected. She hasn’t heard anyone speaking her language in what feels like decades. Here they all speak some form of Basic that’s been cobbled together from a variety of alien languages, including ones from her home planet of Earth. But his voice comes through loud and clear as she’s turning the knobs.“Fuck!”She giggles. She can’t help it. She hits another button, leans toward the seldom-used microphone attached to the communication equipment. “Hello?”“Fuck,” the voice says again. “How do you turn this thing off?” There’s some indistinct chatter from somewhere further away than the voice, and then the line goes dead.She crosses her arms over her chest and leans back. She liked his voice, curse words and all. There’s something about it: deep and dark, like the chocolate she misses from back home. But mostly she misses the cadence of Earth speakers. There are others here, who speak a language close to her people’s, but it’s not the same. Never the same.Not that she knows who her people are. She was dumped here so long ago, abandoned to a desert planet with an atmosphere she can’t even breathe. She wonders, more often than not, what it would be like to be outside, to be able to breathe the air without some sort of apparatus, to not be confined to giant domes that only allow a tease of the outside without actually letting you be a part of it.She wonders where he is.Who he is?She turns the knobs several more times, but there’s nothing more than static. With a sigh, she returns to her work on the communications array. Maybe she’ll hear him again…sometime…The complete work will be released on February 14 as part this year’s Reylo Charity Anthology: Across the Stars. Donate today to receive your copy!Donor FAQ | Contributors | Spread the word: reblog a promo! -- source link