"It's okay. It was only since I was five...or maybe four?" She's trying to joke about a painful topic and it should be glaringly obvious.
Finding out about her heritage only made her abandonment worse. It raised far more questions than it ever could have answers unless by some miracle her parents arrived.
She wasn't a smuggler, but some things were the stuff of planetary legends, like Han's Kessel Run. When she was very little, she'd sit with the ladies who were too old to scavenge, but not old enough to die yet and listen to the stories they'd heard about life beyond Jakku.
"No. No, not me." She chuckled a little. "But I did manage quite the escape from Jakku." In the Millennium Falcon itself.
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Finding out about her heritage only made her abandonment worse. It raised far more questions than it ever could have answers unless by some miracle her parents arrived.
She wasn't a smuggler, but some things were the stuff of planetary legends, like Han's Kessel Run. When she was very little, she'd sit with the ladies who were too old to scavenge, but not old enough to die yet and listen to the stories they'd heard about life beyond Jakku.
"No. No, not me." She chuckled a little. "But I did manage quite the escape from Jakku." In the Millennium Falcon itself.