如題，摳一點兩人的互動，自翻，歡迎捉蟲。

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Chapter1

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“Did you live?” Merrin’s voice crackled to life over Cal’s comms. Her accent and often wry way of speaking made the question come off glib, like she didn’t really care about the answer one way or another.

“Did you hear something, Beedee?” Cal asked his droid rhetorically, knowing Merrin well enough to know that the sound of his voice over comms would be enough of an answer to satisfy Merrin’s sarcastic but still genuine query. “Sounded almost like…someone who was worried about us?” he added in a sing-songy voice.

“Must have been your imagination,” Merrin responded contemplatively. There was a beat of silence as though she were deep in thought. “Yes, next time we’re hard up for credits we’ll just drop you in a cantina. You’ll survive.”

“你們還活著嗎？”Merrin的聲音在Cal的通訊里沙沙作響。濃重的口音和戲謔的腔調顯得她的問題很是隨意，好像她根本不在乎有所回應。

“聽到了嗎，BD？”Cal故作夸張地問他的機器人，他了解Merrin，只要他的聲音在通訊里響起，足以回應Merrin略帶諷刺但仍然真誠的詢問?！奥犉饋砗芟瘛橙嗽陉P心我們？”他抑揚頓挫地補充道。

“你想太多了，”Merrin若有所思地回答。通訊上一陣沉默，好似她在認真思考。“好，下次我們缺信用點了就把你扔在一個小餐館，你能養(yǎng)活自個的?！?/p>

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A Brood member they’d run into earlier that month—the one whose boots Cal was currently wearing—had divulged both the location of this base and the way that it functioned. It had been so kind of him to open up like that. And all it had taken was Merrin being particularly convincing with her equally scary and impressive space-witch magick for a moment or two.

He and Merrin made a damn good team.

月初他們碰上的那個駭群幫成員——Cal正穿著他的靴子——他暴露了這個基地的位置以及其運作方式，十分體貼，毫無保留。這都是因為Merrin特地用了她那可怕而出色的太空女巫魔法拷問了一下。

他和Merrin真是最佳拍檔。

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“Look who finally decided to show up,” Cal teased as the hydraulics wheezed, lowering the ship’s ramp.

“This was the plan all along.” Merrin stepped off the Mantis first, her deep voice in its unique accent turning the was into vuz. Cal stared with just a little bit of envy as Merrin descended the ramp; somehow she managed to look daunting and intimidating everywhere she went, whether she intended to or not. A Dathomirian, Merrin had skin so pale it was like chalk; it reflected the light from the shield above, the gray markings on her face sprawled out like a spider. She kept her long, equally white hair tucked back into a severe bun—except the one piece around her face that always seemed to escape, no matter how hard she tried to keep it in place. Cal had seen her touch it a million times. And even years after leaving Dathomir, she still wore the black and red her people loved so much (though far less in the traditional Nightsister style—she’d really been finding what clothing worked for her in the field and out of it), but Cal could swear he saw a tint of green in it all—the color of her Nightsister magick.

Which Cal definitely understood and wasn’t at all unnerved by.

“Joke, Merrin,” clarified Cere as she followed the younger woman off the Mantis.“He was making a joke.”

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“It wasn’t funny,” Merrin responded. Cal was pretty sure that was her own idea of a joke.

At least, he hoped so.

“瞧瞧是誰終于肯現身了？”Cal調侃道。液壓起落架發(fā)出嗡嗡的聲響，舷梯被緩緩放下。

“明明就是計劃好的。”Merrin第一個走出了螳螂號，她聲線低沉，因為獨特的口音把was發(fā)成了vuz。Merrin悠悠地從舷梯上下來，Cal盯著她，帶著些許羨慕——她總是能以令人生畏和威嚇的形象，出現在她所到之處，無論她是不是有意的。作為達索米爾人，Merrin的膚色同白堊一樣慘白，映著光芒，灰色的印記像一只蜘蛛伸展在她的臉上。她總是把同樣白色的長發(fā)在腦后綁成一絲不茍的髻——除了垂在面頰旁的一縷，無論她如何努力地固定，那縷頭發(fā)總能幸免。她捋頭發(fā)的動作Cal已經看了無數次。盡管離開達索米爾多年，她依然穿著黑紅相間的衣服，那是她的種族所鐘愛的顏色（雖然遠不像暗夜姐妹的傳統(tǒng)服飾，她也找到了適合她的衣服），不過Cal相信他在其中看到了一抹綠色——屬于暗夜姐妹魔法的顏色。

他不懂魔法，但這也并不完全讓他畏懼。

“這只是個玩笑，Merrin，”隨著年輕女人走出螳螂號的Cere解釋道，“他只是在開玩笑?！?/p>

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“這并不好笑，”Merrin答道。Cal很確定她在以自己的方式開玩笑。

至少他希望如此。

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Chapter2

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And of course Cal, the Jedi, a fellow survivor who made an alliance with a Nightsister. Together they were the light and the dark. Cal was the star that illuminated Merrin’s shadow. His earnest face, pale for a human, dusted with darker spots. Scars crossing his nose and eyebrow that spoke of a hard life. Hair like burnished copper, always pushed up and back out of his green eyes in a way that seemed to defy gravity. His smiles came quick and easy, like his connection to the Force.

Must be nice.

Over the last few years, Merrin saw something different in Cal almost every time she looked at him. Sometimes he was the hardened warrior leader of their crew, bent on vengeance. Othertimes, though he tried his best to hide it, Cal was the scared and lonely Jedi on the run. He was dedicated, but equally dedicated to his cause and to his crew. He was so sweet.

It was kind of annoying.

（Merrin的pov）當然，還有Cal，那個絕地武士，也是幸存者，和一個暗夜姐妹結成了聯(lián)盟。他們是明與暗。Cal就像一顆明星，照亮了Merrin心里的陰霾。他真誠的臉，是屬于人類的白膚色，星布著點點雀斑。橫過鼻梁和眉宇的傷疤道出了他過去的艱難。他的頭發(fā)，顏色就像擦亮的銅器，總是被推到腦后，不擋住他那翠綠的眼眸，仿佛不受重力所控。他的笑總是來得迅速而隨意，就像他與原力的聯(lián)結那樣。

那感覺一定很好。

過去的幾年里，Merrin 幾乎每次都能從他身上看到一些變化。有時，他是領導整個團隊的強硬戰(zhàn)士，決心復仇；其他時候，他只是一個在流亡中害怕而孤獨的絕地。他一心一意，對于他的事業(yè)和隊友，他同樣樂于奉獻。他太好了。

這有點讓她煩惱。

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Cal breathed heavily into his comms. Merrin imagined him running sideways across a vertical surface, leaping for the next one, making it. “Wish you could teach me how to do that,” he said in a tone Merrin recognized as only half joking.

“All your fire would come from your hair,” Merrin answered as she waited for Cere to shut down one of the vents. “You would disappear from the top down, just consumed by—”

通訊里，Cal氣喘吁吁，Merrin可以想到他傾斜著身體躍過垂直的墻面，再跳過另一個?！耙悄隳芙涛夷钦校▊魉停┚秃昧?，”他半開玩笑地說道。

“那你的火焰會從你的頭發(fā)燃起，”Merrin應道，等著Cere關掉其中一個通風口。“你會從腦袋開始消失，然后被吞噬——”

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