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- Doctor Aphra
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
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Some prisons, the inmates complain about being locked in deep, dark dungeons where they never see the sun. That’s one complaint we never get here.
Does tend to get a bit warm, but you get used to it. After a few years or so.
APHRA:
Trust me, I won’t be here that long.
PRISON WARDEN:
They all say that. Doctor Aphra, is it? And what might your story be?
APHRA:
My story is I’m gonna burn this place to the ground. And you with it, Warden. That’s if you’re lucky. If you’re not so lucky, my good friend Darth Vader might just pay you a personal visit.
PRISON WARDEN:
Let’s hope he does. We’ve got room for him as well.
PRINCESS LEIA:
She’s not lying about her connection to Vader. The Empire will be scouring the galaxy for her.
PRISON WARDEN:
Even if they could find us, which they can’t, we’re quite well defended here, Princess. We’ve got a star at our back and a sea of ion cannons in front of us. Believe me, as hard as it is to break out of this place…it would be just as impossible to break in.
Now, Doctor, let me show you to your cell.
Sana and Leia follow Aphra as guards lead her to her cell.
SANA STARROS:
Has Aphra said anything, Princess?
PRINCESS LEIA:
Other than elaborately gruesome threats and the most colorful insults I’ve ever heard? No.
She was questioned for weeks by Alliance Intelligence officers. She gave them nothing.
SANA STARROS:
I bet it was quite the interrogation. What’d they do, shine a bright light in her face? Play their music real loud?
The Empire wouldn’t stop there.
PRINCESS LEIA:
Which is one of the reasons we’re fighting a war against them, Sana.
SANA STARROS:
And one of the reasons you’re going to lose.
PRINCESS LEIA:
Humanity isn’t the same as weakness.
SANA STARROS:
When your life is on the line, it is.
PRINCESS LEIA:
I refuse to accept that.
SANA STARROS:
Tell that to a stormtrooper next time you see one, and see if he refuses to kill you.
PRINCESS LEIA:
I brought you on this trip, Sana, so we could move past the awkwardness of our initial meeting.
APHRA (narration):
Well, that totally made my ears perk up! Was there a…connection between the princess and Sana? I never would have pegged Sana as having a thing for princesses. Then again…after all the stuff I subjected her to, maybe she decided it would be better to go with someone who was the complete opposite of her usual type.
SANA STARROS:
And I came because you pay me well, Princess. And because you saved my life on Nar Shaddaa. Doesn’t mean I have to agree with you.
PRINCESS LEIA:
Your right to disagree is one of the things we’re fighting for.
SANA STARROS: