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Jonathan is sitting by himself in a booth, studying the controls for his model X-wing - which is sitting on the table in front of him.

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*Andrew stops by his table.*

Hey.

Jonathan looks up at him and smiles.

"Oh, hey Andrew."

*Andrew spares a moment to admire the model X-wing -- because, dude, model X-wing -- but only a moment, because:*

Have you talked to Warren? Since yesterday?

Jonathan frowns at the seriousness in Andrew's voice, setting the controls aside.

"No. Why?"

*He glances around, and lowers his voice.*

Tara's been here.

Jonathan goes instantly pale.

"Are you sure? I mean, there's a girl who looks like her but isn't..."

Yeah, that's Echo, we've met --

I didn't see Tara, but ... it was really her. Warren talked to her.

"Oh God. Have you seen him since then?"

Yeah. Uh, we talked.

He doesn't know what to do. And I didn't know what to tell him.

And something horrifying occurs to Jonathan about the way Tara died.

"She doesn't know. Does she?"

I think ... I think she didn't. Until he told her.

"He... Oh God. How did she...?"

He said ... she said it was awkward.

Jonathan is lost for words for a moment.

"That's all?"

Yeah, I didn't get it either.

Do you think she's in shock, or something?

Jonathan shrugs helplessly.

"I don't know. Maybe. I didn't know her, and I haven't met her here..."

Anyway, um ...

Warren's not doing too good.

"He's in his room?"

He was yesterday. I don't know if he's come out yet.

I kind of think he wants to be alone.

"That doesn't mean he should be, though. Is Isabel with him, at least?"

... I don't know.

*He looks down at the tabletop, then back up at his friend.*

Jonathan, he thinks he's going to Hell.

Jonathan flinches. His face is very pale.

He doesn't know what to say.

I mean, what do you say to that?

Jonathan swallows.

"I don't know..."

*His voice is unsteady, and barely above a whisper.*

...what if he's right?

"He's not. He can't be."

Yeah, but what if he is?

*Andrew's shaking.*

What if we all are? What if Leia's right and once you've been a bad guy you don't get to come back?

"Then why are we here? Warren, and me, and Anakin... Why wouldn't we have gone straight there, instead of to a place where Death doesn't work?"

Because ...

I don't know. Nobody told us the rules.

"If it's not to make amends... no. I can't think about that."

That's kind of what I thought, though ... that maybe being here is a chance to earn ... I don't know, parole or something.

A chance not to have to go there.

"I think it has to be. Because the other option... is that we're being shown what we missed out on. But there doesn't seem to be any limit on it, and it doesn't make sense."

I don't know if it has to make sense.

Jonathan looks unhappy.

"I think it does. There's something behind this, bringing us all here."

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