captured AU concept 1

Here is the captured AU concept I’ve been snippeting for the past week-and-a-bit! This is a Devil’s Backbone AU that goes AU about five years before Backbone begins; this would be about a month after the Kanan flashbacks in Chapter 17 and six months before the Hera flashbacks in Chapter 20. (More or less; there’s some wiggle room in that time span.)

This is actually less sketchy than a lot of my early concepts, which on some level I’m fascinated by. I usually don’t do much editing on concept writing, but there was definitely some here. (For the curious, the only one of these scenes written after Monday’s episodes is the last scene.)

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Ahsoka had expected to sense the Inquisitor’s presence as soon as she came out of hyperspace, but instead all she felt was unease – which, she realized after a moment of concentration, seemed to be coming from the crew of Phoenix Home. She couldn’t blame them for that, she supposed.

She didn’t need the Force to tell how uncertain Commander Sato was about the situation. He came down to the already-crowded hangar deck to greet her after she had landed her A-wing, saying, “I am glad you were able to come so quickly.”

“When there’s an Inquisitor involved, everything else can wait,” Ahsoka said. “Has he tried anything? Said anything?”

“Neither.” Sato’s frown deepened. “He did not even ask where he was.”

“Well, it’s not like he could mistake this for an Imperial ship,” Ahsoka pointed out gently. “Take me to him. Let’s get this over with.”

The converted medical frigate didn’t have much in the way of a brig, but it did have a single cell originally meant for quarantine purposes; its door was sealed and a pair of sailors were standing outside it, armed and radiating discomfort. One of them passed Ahsoka a small control, explaining, “He’s in shock cuffs.”

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