[you don't really know why, but you wanna justify rippin' someone's head off]

[kestreldawn]

WHO: Jyn Erso, Bodhi Rook, and Armitage Hux
WHERE: Somewhere in De Chima
WHEN: Sometime in November
WHAT: Hux is a terrible person, the actual Worst (tm), and so Jyn and Bodhi decide to exact some revenge.
WARNINGS: Will update as needed.

Jyn has lost count of all of the transgressions Hux has managed to commit in their relatively short amount of time in this new world and life. Aside from being a general nuisance and all-around terrible sort of person, Hux has now made very clear attacks against various people from their universe, as well as Rogue One in particular. It's after the most recent attack on Kay and his memory that Jyn's finally reached some sort of breaking point. She doesn't want to retaliate too extensively, lest she bring upon even greater retribution from such a pathetically insecure man, but she needs to do something.

And, despite all of her promises to Kay to avoid doing so when Hux had gone after Bodhi, she decides that she'll utilize her powers, just this once, to try and put Hux back into his place. She doesn't remember how the conversation had come up in the first place, but Bodhi agrees to go with her in her planned attack.

She decides to shift into a red-tailed hawk - an animal that can do significant damage if needed - but is otherwise common. Or, at least, common enough to not draw an immense amount of attention. She leaves a note for Cassian in their room, having mentioned the plan to him the night before, using code words and insinuations she'll know he'll understand but that the average person would think non-sensical in case the note is found.

At Bodhi's door, she knocks and leans her head in towards it.

"Bodhi, are you ready?"

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[onlydoubts]

It's not that Bodhi was nervous, about encountering Hux. Well. He was - to say the least. He'd done his best to avoid the man since returning to life last month, and had no intentions of talking to the man any time soon. But really all he needed to do was take one look at the newly memory wiped Kay and see Cassian's devastated response on the network to know that something had to be done about their tormentor.

That something wasn't murder, or threatening him harm if he messed with anymore of their friends.

(Better to do this now, so that Kay wont be disappointed with the risk they were taking).

Anyways, it wasn't a face to face meeting. A beak to face meeting, hopefully - if all went well. And with Jyn. Letting off steam and taking frustrations out... on the face of their frustration and anger. It made sense.

He hears the door. "Just a sec!" And scrambles to get it, dropping whatever he'd been doing on the way, opening it and giving her a nod. "Yeah, I'm ready. Let's go."

[kestreldawn]

Jyn eyes him up and down once before quirking a brow. Though Bodhi's never been a man known to hold the world's serenity and calm, it doesn't take much for her to sense that he's a bit more anxious than normal. Before making any sort of move to head downstairs, she reaches out place a hand on his shoulder - an attempt to help steady and center him, just a bit. The corner of her lips curl slightly into a sympathetic and understanding smile.

"If at any point you change your mind, Bodhi, you know that you're able to bow out of it, don't you? There's no point in doing it if you'd rather not - even if we're in the middle of it. You just have to break off, come back, and let me know that you're all right. No questions asked, though. Yeah?"

[onlydoubts]

At that some of the tension in his shoulders drains a little and he lifts up his eyes to give her a small, thankful smile. "Yeah. Thanks. But I -- I think I'll be alright. Really, it's not like we're meeting up face-to-face. Beak-to-face, maybe."

Hopefully.

Deep breath. "Let's get this show going, then?"

[kestreldawn]

"Yes," Jyn replies with a quiet trill of laughter. "Face-to-beak only, if anything." Ideally, they'll only interact with him at a distance from overhead. But, of course, with the way things seem to go for them, it might end up being significantly more than that. She offers a curt, small nod before turning on her heel and making her way down the stairs towards the front door.

She's not told anyone else of their plan, partially to avoid the judging stares but also because she knows exactly the kinds of things they'd say to try and deter them. For once, Jyn wants to exact a revenge on someone who's made their lives so difficult. Jyn wants to do the very thing Cassian had prevented her from doing at the end with Krennic's unconscious body. Just once.

"All right. I've decided to go for a creature called a red-tailed hawk. Nothing conspicuous, but able to provide some carnage if it comes to it. Which hopefully it won't."