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    TFA Open The Scavengers' Tale [Jakku]

    The beige cloaked figure was wrapped from head to toe in fabric, covered against the sandstorms that often and unexpectedly whipped up on the planet Jakku. Site of a long ago battle between the former Empire and the Rebellion against it, Jakku was a graveyard for ships of all sizes.

    And while the planet was nothing but a sand covered dustbowl due to the ecological disaster the battle had wrought, scavengers still crawled over the wrecks, the recycling effort of thousands just enough to eke out some sort of existence in the midst of the desert. Some died. Others left - to try their luck elsewhere. There were always more who came, landing on Jakku as a last resort, a final step in a life gone wrong.

    Crawling over the hulk of a Mon Cal mid-size capital ship, this scavenger was nimble and surefooted as they ascended higher and higher. Access to the bridge was impossible from the inside of the wreckage, and so they were attempting to find a way in from above.

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    This was not, Aria lamented for at least the fiftieth time that day as she struggled to keep a grip on the metal structure of the old cruiser, where she saw her life going by the age of seventeen. She had had it all. She had practically been a princess. Her mother and father had been some of the richest, most powerful aristocrats in the old Empire, and even though the government had fallen, their endless wealth and influence had gone nowhere. Aria had it all, every dress, every piece of jewellery, everything she ever wanted... And then, one day, something changed.

    Aria had no idea what she'd done to deserve being left on Jakku, literally still in her ballgown and heels over a year ago. Her parents had left her there without a word and flown away. All that time had passed and there was no sign of them returning. Nobody, she thought, would have even predicted her survival. She'd been mugged within an hour of being there, everything had been taken, and the first month or so had been the hardest of her life. But she'd learned and adapted. These days, scavenging came naturally to her, even if she still wasn't quite in the physical shape of a lot of the scavengers. Being a teenage girl who'd spent most of her life living in idle luxury did little to prepare you for climbing starships. The remains of her silk pink gown flapped around her, now converted in to protective robes to keep out the sand (over her rougher, tougher white tunic), her boots (a hard earned commodity that had taken her months to get) gripped the metal well enough, but her hands, still soft despite the year of work, slipped when she tried to find a hand hold. She preferred looting the old Imperial ships, their blocky aesthetics actually made them easier to climb, but as far as she could tell, nobody had ever hit this old Calamari cruiser this high up. This was her chance for a serious score.

    She sighed, looking up the sheer metal slope the best that she could, careful not to let her feet slip. A mistake here would be fatal, she was so high up. She could see a metal pole, something that she could grasp, but it was out of reach of her petite frame. To jump... or not to jump. She paused, considering, and took a deep breath.
    "In all my years, I have never seen a girl as singularly coddled, spoiled and utterly incapable in any athletic field as Aria." She recited her old gym instructors report on her athletic abilities, an old and particularly grumpy Trandoshan who had been a private tutor to her, and not particularly pleasant about her. She had never forgotten that, after she spectacularly failed every single gym class she was assigned, and he berated her in front of her parents. Every word sat in her mind. "She is clumsy, weak, unfit and seems far more concerned about her hair than about achieving any athletic goal." She went on, and then she looked up, and smiled to herself. "Oh, Mr Trashk, if only you could see me now...." She allowed herself a confident smile, and she jumped.

    She grabbed the metal bar over her head easily enough, and almost smiled. Almost. Because while she got her hands around it, as soon as her body weight pulled on her, she felt her hands begin to slip. Her eyes went wide and she tried desperately to hold her own body weight, but she still wasn't overly strong, and with her hands slipping, she didn't stand a chance.
    "NononononoNO!" She shrieked, just as she lost her grip and fell. She grabbed desperately for anything to hold on to on the outside of the ship, and suddenly realised she was in luck. Something coiled around her hand! She gasped as it pulled taught, an old cord or wire hanging loose. Whatever it was, it swung her around, right around to the front of the ship, and slammed her in to the very front of the Mon Calamari cruiser with enough force that she managed to get a grip on a piece of debris.

    "Owww." She moaned, her arms burning and her face hurting from where she'd hit the starship. And then she realised she'd made it, and was still alive (and actually closer to the bridge). "HA! IN YOUR FACE, MR TRASHK!" She cried out cheerfully, since there was nobody around for miles to hear her.

    Oh, except the strange creature directly next to her, climbing the same wreckage. She was so startled she nearly fell off all over again.

    "Uh.... hi?" She smiled sheepishly, even as the two clung to the outside of the ship.

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    Scratched goggles surveyed the child, but the scavenger could not spare a hand for introductions. "Hello," she said, her voice muffled a bit by the fabric draped across her muzzle. A furry tail, ringed red and black, peeked out from the desert clothes, waving back and forth for balance as she pulled herself to a more secure position on the hull.

    She extended a hand toward the girl, and pointed to where she'd been perched, the suggestion clear that the newcomer should follow her footsteps. Then she turned and made her way up, the rounded skin of the cruiser making it all especially difficult. There was a reason the ISDs were prime targets for their fellow scavengers - they were just easier. But the ships from Dac were more precious - fewer of them, and the parts were worth more.

    If you could get to them.

    The transparisteel of the bridge viewport loomed, and she sat on the slight lip of the hull that framed it. A breather was needed, and she scooted over, waiting for the other to join her. She placed a paw on the transparisteel - it was spiderwebbed with cracks but was holding its integrity. For now.

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    Aria toyed with finding her own way up, just to prove that she could, but truthfully, footing was so difficult to find on the edge of the cruiser that she really was better off following the other scavenger's lead. Besides, she seemed older and more experienced (even if she was climbing in full protective gear). Aria herself hated climbing in goggles and gear, and generally left it in a safe place before she started. Too much to get caught or fog up, but this old hand didn't seem to have that problem.

    She followed, but seemed to have more difficulty than the older scavenger. Her arms were aching from her swing, and she wasn't very strong anyway. She struggled, and it seemed more than once that her arms might just give out and she'd fall, but with the force of sheer determination she managed to catch up, glad to see that the older scavenger had decided to stop. They weren't friends and didn't know each other, but now she was there, Aria knew she had to keep up or look weak in front of other scavengers. So when she stopped, Aria was glad of the break, panting and breathing hard from the effort. She leaned back, keeping a safe distance from the other woman, one hand reaching for her neck where a diamond necklace glinted. Very valuable on Jakku (and it had taken Aria eight months to get it back after it was first stolen from her). She wore it as a reminder of home, but around others, she always got nervous they'd make a grab for it.

    ".......Aria." She panted, introducing herself, before turning to the trasnparisteel. It was damaged, but in tact. No way to break it. At least, not for Aria who had no weapon and no heavy duty tools. She had been hoping when they got up there it would be revealed to be cracked open. No such luck.

    Maybe there was another way in?

    "We get in together and split what we find?" She asked, because the alternative was 'we fight and throw each other off this ship'.

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    She nodded, and reached up to pull the wrap from her face, letting the cloth hang from the side while she set the goggles up on her head. Pink eyes gleamed out of a reddish furred face, her muzzle and brow generously flecked with white from age. "Ndonsa," she said, pronouncing it 'ne-DON-sa'. She pulled herself to her feet, balancing on footpaws that wore no shoes, just a twist of cloth around the middle and up her leg, and placed her paws on the window, feeling along the transparisteel to the opposite side of the viewport, feet edging along as she moved.

    A moment of concentration, a vibration with the Force along the right frequency, and the transparisteel broke fully in front of her, cascading inward with a loud clatter, leaving a hole wide enough for a wampa to climb inside. Ndonsa waited a moment for it to settle, and then hopped inside, sliding a bit as the ship was off kilter and the deck was not quite 'deck' or 'wall', but somewhere in between.

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    Aria nodded back to the unusual name. Then again, Ndonsa appeared to be an unusual species. Certainly not one Aria recognised, but then again, growing up as an Imperial aristocrat had hardly given her much interaction with any races outside of human beings, and she was discovering new ones every day on Jakku. She repositioned herself to be able to slump the best she could against the transparisteel of the ship to catch her breath. Everything ached. Aria was getting good at being a scavenger, especially given her coddled background, but she'd never tackled anything quite this big or awkward before, and she had pushed herself a little harder than perhaps she should have.

    And as such, she wasn't entirely paying attention when the screen shattered, turning startled with a shriek. All she saw was Ndonsa lowering her paw. Aria's eyes went wide. She couldn't have just smashed it! Transparisteel was supposed to be able to withstand meteor strikes. Even damaged as it was, nobody was that strong. She stumbled through it in awe, losing her balance slightly on the slanted floor but hardly caring. After clinging to the edge of the ship for the entire climb up, it was a relief to even be on a slanted floor, and after a few steps to the safety of the inside (and away from shattered transparisteel) she actually slumped, and sat on the slanted floor, letting her tired legs rest. Yes, they had work to do, but nobody else was up here, and this was now their entire baby. And it looked like nobody had ever gotten up here before. That meant a lot of fresh salvage and hopefully a very good haul. Although of course, it depended on what they could carry back down.

    "......How did you do that?" She asked a little breathlessly, still baffled by their way in. Aria had been ready to look for a small crack or hull breach she could squeeze her small frame through. She'd never seen anybody just shatter their way in before. Maybe her species really did possess super strength? That would be irritating, Aria realised, because it meant she'd be able to carry far more salvage than Aria could...

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    Ndonsa balanced on her toes, already making her way toward the navigation console and hopefully an intact navicomputer. The other scavenger's question made her pause, and she turned to look at her, unwinding the rest of the cloth from her head and letting her ears free. "The crack was deep," she said simply, her Basic richly accented even though she had not been back to her home country of Kuf for over thirty years. "I was inspecting it and pushed... it fell apart." She shrugged, turning back toward her goal.

    An intact navicomputer would buy her a ticket off of Jakku, if she needed such a thing. Star charts were in high demand. Ndonsa knelt on the slanted deck, using a multitool from her small satchel to remove the paneling, nearly holding her breath as she pulled it away to reveal...

    ...scorched wiring. The inside of the compartment was blackened from an ancient electrical fire, but she deftly removed the component parts anyway, setting them down next to her in a row in such a way that they wanted to roll toward her rather than all over the bridge. Perhaps something would have survived.

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    "I'm not stupid." Aria replied, climbing to her feet and speaking with all the annoyance of a teenager when they felt like they were being patronised. "If it was that fragile, the sandstorms would have done it in years ago." She pointed out, keeping a curious eye on Ndonsa as she headed to the navi-computer. A good starting point, for sure. Navigational charts were worth a fortune, but you had to be able to identify them, and Aria didn't have a clue. Besides, they were notoriously fragile, and judging by the scorched components she was removing, it looked like this one had burnt out a long time ago.

    Aria began working on the more flashy components. Usually ships were stripped of these a long time ago, and a chance to get things like a control yolk, or a throttle lever were rare. Especially since they could fit a range of ships and looked impressive. They often brought in a lot of rations easily. It was, of course, very youthful, going for the impressive looking components instead of looking deeper. They had the entire bridge to themselves. There was bound to be some incredibly rare bits of salvage up here, but Aria knew the basics better than anything special.

    "No bodies..." She pointed out. "Everybody must have got out. But I wonder if they hit the armoury first. Blasters are worth a lot..." She said thoughtfully. It was hard to find a decent blaster on Jakku, and there might just be a payload right there. She didn't say anything more about the mysteriously shattered window. For now, she'd leave it, and see if the woman gave any more hints. She needed more proof anyway, truth be told.

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    "You wear your jewelry to scavenge," Ndonsa muttered under her breath, "pretty stupid." She looked up from where she was working, speaking louder so the girl could hear. "The sandstorms have battered it for a generation. It was just it's time to break. The ..final straw, perhaps."

    Her ears swiveled as she half-crawled into the space she'd opened up, tail waving in the air as she went after the power cell for the navicomp. It was toast. The Kufu backed out onto the deck, picking up the data cards she'd separated from the navicomp in the hopes they could be cleaned up and some of the data retrieved. They went into her satchel.

    "Do you know where the armory is?" she asked plainly, moving on to the defensive systems. This console didn't look burned, and a shield control unit or intact percentage dial would be helpful.

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    "Hey! I heard that!" Aria said in annoyed tone, a hand defensively flying to her necklace for a moment, as if to check that it was still there. She glowered at Ndonsa for a moment for thinking she was so smart in her little comment. It was probably best not to mention that her outer robe was also made from a ball gown. "It's important to me, okay? And there's nowhere safe on Jakku to keep it when I'm not around." She added snippily, even if the truth was she liked having it close to remind her of where she came from. That there was a better life out there. Sometimes, Jakku became all there was.

    "Well, no, not exactly..." Aria admitted as she stripped another console on the far side of the bridge, away form Ndonsa now that she was annoyed with her, ripping off the main panel and the controls underneath, figuring they'd be useful. "But it can't be far from the bridge, right? In case they got boarded?" She suggested.

    She still wasn't buying the excuse with the transparesteel, but truthfully, she didn't know any better. It was possible she was telling the truth, but nobody got that lucky on Jakku. Coincidence was never in your favour. Then again, it wasn't like she could prove anything. So she thought for now it was best to avoid commenting and simply go along with it.

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    "Probably near the bridge," Ndonsa echoed, thoughtfully. "Perhaps." She eyed the closed doors that led to the rest of the ship, the blast doors still open, for what good it would do them without power to open even the ordinary doors.

    She continued to take apart the console, pulling control chips and putting them with the datacards in her satchel, leaving the larger salvage for the cloth bag she pulled from her belt. What the girl did was no concern of hers. She hadn't felt right about abandoning her on the hull of the ship, but having someone following her around was going to be tiresome. Alone was best. No one to find out her secret, which she had carelessly nearly revealed already.

    No one to need protection, no one for her to ultimately fail. Her mood sour, Ndonsa stuffed components into her bag, moving briskly around the bridge despite the crooked deck.

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    Well then, it seemed like Ndonsa agreed with her suggestion, but was doing nothing to help. Aria looked around for a way to open the doors. With no power, they couldn't do anything electrically. There was no way to get anything back to the doors. The ship's blast doors hadn't sealed however, and that meant they had a chance. Especially since with no power, there were no motors to resist their efforts. It was just the weight of the door, and getting something between them to slide them open with.

    She searched around for a moment, spotting a broken metal beam that was thin and flat. Grabbing it, she pushed it as hard as she could, until it slipped between the sealed door. Grabbing it, she began to heave to force the door open. The heavy metal pushed against her, and she strained, thin arms shaking with effort. She let out a few involuntary grunts, but the door refused to budge. It was no use. Aria wasn't strong enough.

    She looked around to Ndonsa, still annoyed at her for her comment, but realising she had to have some muscle, since she broke the window, no matter what her claims were.
    "Little help?" She asked, trying not to sound too annoyed. "If we can get this open, who knows what we might find." She added, because it was something both of them could benefit from.

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    "The rest of the ship, no doubt," Ndonsa said dryly, but she padded over and motioned for Aria to move away. When the girl backed up, the Kufu took the improvised lever and pulled it from the door completely, tossing it to the ground with a clang. She moved to the control panel and opened it up deftly with her multitool, pulling a small powercell from her satchel - a fully charged one that she kept with her.

    Wires were pulled, stripped, and she held the contacts to the powercell. The door popped open, and she adjusted the controls to make it simple to push or pull the door closed. "Hydraulics," she explained. "You could not pull it open, even if you were a Wookiee. I bled the pressure from the mechanism." She gave the doors a push and they moved with some effort. Tempted to return to the console she had been working on, she instead looked down the dark hallway. Away from the bright light of Jakku's sands, the interior of the ship was nearly pitch black.

    And, as the girl had said, probably full of good salvage. Or, dead bodies. Ndonsa's sensitive nose wrinkled a bit at the musty smell of the interior of the cruiser. "After you."


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    Aria tried not to get frustrated at Ndonsa's little comment about what was beyond the door, but she was beginning to feel annoyed. This woman, or creature, or whoever she was was, simply put, not very nice. Of course there were long running rivalries between scavengers, but they were both there together. Couldn't they just get along? She was fed up with feeling patronised and treated like a child. She thought she'd been learning very well for a scavenger, she thought that despite her coddled upbringing, she had really found something she was good at, but this older woman just kept making her feel like an idiot. Even more so when she took the lever from her and opened the door electronically.

    All Aria could do was fold her arms and try and look defensive, or at least 'not embarrassed'.
    "Well, I thought with all the power gone, that was gone too." She said, although it was obvious she had nowhere near the understanding of this other woman. And it was also obvious she was feeling it, being made to feel at every step inferior or stupid and that it was beginning to grate on her nerves.

    She peered in to the dark, feeling goosebumps on her skin despite the warmth from the desert. Aria hated the dark, and she hated more the dark that might be full of dead bodies. But this was her idea, and well, with Ndonsa's attitude towards her, she could hardly show any fear, could she?
    "Fine. Yeah. Easy." She said in a high-pitched tone of voice that only hinted further at her fear, and she began to creep in.

    The truth was as soon as she was in the dark, all she felt was fear. It felt cold, she felt alone, and she had no idea what was around the corner. This place hadn't been set foot in for thirty years. What if there were still defences? Or something worse...? What if she was about to stumble over a dead body? She had to use all of her will power to keep going, and then her foot hit something.

    She screamed in terror, leapt out of her skin, and span around, grabbing Ndonsa in a terrified hug, clinging to her for a few moments before realising what she had just done. She awkwardly released her fellow scavenger.
    "Uh... Sorry." She mumbled, and turned around, back to try and see what she had hit. She was glad it was so dark Ndonsa couldn't see her cheeks burning bright red. She reached down cautiously, and she picked up what she had accidently kicked.

    It was a Rebel Fleet Trooper helmet. She smiled with relief. No severed head inside. More than that, it was probably worth a ration or two on its own. She placed it on her head and turned around, smiling goofily at Ndonsa. The helmet was about ten sizes too big for her, and just sloshed around on her petite head as she moved.
    "What do you think?" She smiled.

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    Ndonsa's adrenaline spiked as the girl shrieked and grabbed her, but the only source of fear was the other scavenger. There was nothing alive in the ship with them...that she could sense. The lowest levels of the ship were buried in the sand and probably compromised, just about any sort of burrowing creature could have gotten in.

    She smiled a bit at the girl's attempt at humor, but wasn't really feeling it. "Where is your flashlight?" She produced her own and turned it on, avoiding shining it in Aria's eyes and pointing it at the bulkheads. "I will go first." First to see what was best. Ndonsa wasn't familiar with this particular class of ship, but all Mon Cal cruisers had the armories in near enough the same places. One on every level, near midship. She strode into the slightly tilted darkness, flash bobbing on the deck and bulkhead and lighting the way.

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    "Uh, I don't... I don't actually have a flashlight." Aria admitted awkwardly as she began to follow behind the other woman, keeping up with her and thankful for the new light. She tipped the helmet she was now wearing back a bit to stop it falling down and covering her eyes, but she kept it on. It was easier than carrying it and, well, she liked having it on. At least this way she felt a tiny bit safer, even if it was too loose to actually protect her from anything.

    "I know you think I'm some stupid child, but I've only been here for a year, and they dropped me here with nothing." She said, not entirely sure why but feeling like she had to defend herself. "Everything I have I had to earn the hard way, and it's not like I knew what I was doing. This isn't the kind of life I ever expected to lead. So I never got a flashlight. It took me months even to be able to scavenge enough for a practical pair of boots. Not all of us know our way around these old ships before we came here. Everything I've got, everything I am, every skill I have, I had to earn right here on Jakku." She told this older woman bitterly. Clearly she knew her way around the ship too. She didn't know who she was, but it was obvious Ndonsa had experiences Aria could only dream of.

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    A year? Ndonsa didn't know if she should be horrified at the girl's lack of knowledge after such a time, or impressed that she'd survived that long. "Yes, I had everything handed to me when I arrived, it's a shame you have had to start at the bottom, child."

    She turned a corner, and found a vast hole in the deck plating, where an explosion had ripped at the innards of the ship. The strong beam from the flashlight didn't reach the bottom of the destruction, but they could see to the other side, where the rest of the passage was. In fact, she could look down and see many passageways, opening up into this great tear in the metal. Perhaps a turbolift had channeled energy up and exploded to create such a vertical chasm. "Hmm."

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    "Ugh, you're patronising me again!" Aria complained when Ndonsa said she had everything handed to her. She just didn't understand. Aria could see that. Or maybe she just liked her sarcasm. Aria wasn't sure, but she was beginning to feel upset about it. "I don't know what kind of life you led before you came here, but I know you're keeping secrets. I know you know your way around a starship. This type of starship too. So either you were with the Rebellion or the Empire and you attacked one, I don't know, but I'm not stupid, and I know you know more than you're letting on." She ranted, beginning to get annoyed. "But me? You wanna know who I was?"

    "I was the spoiled rich girl!" She snapped, sounding angry and ashamed at what she was, but at the same time having to say it. "There! That's who I was! I never had to work a day in my life. I had everything I ever wanted! And then, one day, with no explanation, my parents took and left me here! I had no idea how to survive! About any of this! I had to learn everything! They left me here in a ballgown! So no, I don't have a stupid flashlight, because in-between spending my salvage on food and drink to survive I've had to earn every single little bit of gear I actually have, from my boots to my bag to my clothes to my hair-tie! So maybe I'm not the super-experienced know-it-all scavenger you are, but that's because I had to work ten times as hard for ten times as little! So you can take your whole attitude and stuff it in your tail! I'm SORRY I don't have gizmos for the dark or for opening doors, but all I have is my two hands! And I have to fight every day not to give up, because I just don't know the same as everybody else! I didn't get to grow up knowing this stuff! I'm smaller, weaker and more spoiled than any of the rest of you, and that makes things so much harder! And I can never give up, because that means dying! So when you're there being all sarcastic about how stupid I am, you just remember how hard I've had to work! ARGH!"

    She practically kicked the floor in irritation as she finished her rant, panting slightly and looking at the big hole.

    "Go on then! Tell me the really obvious way across I'm too stupid to know!" She sulked.

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    Ndonsa let the girl shout, watching her calmly with just a slight impatient wave of her tail. "I cannot see a way across," she said finally.

    The mongoose sat down cross legged at the edge of the chasm. "I have been here for years, child. What I know I learned from exploring. From scavenging. You assume too much." She scratched a bit at her white flecked muzzle, contemplating the divide before her.

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    "O-oh." Aria seemed to deflate a little when Ndonsa burst her bubble. She paused, feeling awkward, because, well, maybe she was just a scavenger. But she was still a really experienced one. She had far more experience than Aria, that was for sure. "W-well, it doesn't matter! You still know more than me! You've been doing this longer! And I bet whatever you did before you came here was more useful than being some little spoiled princess!" She added, speaking of the role of her past life with a level of disdain that suggested she wasn't proud of who she had been. Not any more. Not proud, and yet longing to go back to that life more than anything.

    "Well, I'm getting across!" She said with determination. She just... wasn't sure how yet.

    "I'm going to try and climb around the edge." She insisted. It was insanely dangerous, but right now she was so upset she just wanted to prove that she could do something Ndonsa couldn't.

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