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A Way to Lose More Slowly by cognomen
Fandoms: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
20 Mar 2017
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Poe wades out into the sea of bodies that work in Galactic City like the flow of a tide; a rushing rapid of intelligent life that creates eddies and whorls on the ground level, that soars in levels above in tightly controlled patterns of traffic. At this hour, it's so thick he can't see the sky in the small spaces where he might expect it.
Galactic City never gets cold, not down here on the street. There's too much alive, too much churning activity. It's only in the high reaches of the towers and the dark underground where the chill sets in. Poe carries his coat on his shoulders, knowing he's going miles up; to the top of the Hutt-owned towers where the air is so thin you can only breath it inside the glass boxes.
A Stormpilot Noir-AU that refused to remain a one-shot. Oops.
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Poe tries to remember the next step that Finn told him. He'd written them down, but there's no light here. He knows he has to go up - instead of burying their prisoners, the First Order isolated them from escape by elevation. By lifting them above the levels where access is allowed and isolating them from hope.
Once you got too far up, even the speeders were so far below you that you wouldn't see who occupied them. Poe guesses that if all the windows are painted black on the inside, that hardly matters. He just has to go up.
Find the stairs, he tells himself, even though he couldn't find his own hand in front of his face except for the fact it's tethered to his body.
This is a brilliant tesseract of a fic: part blade runner, part almost human, part gattaca with a giant remarkable knife of architecture porn shot through the middle. I wish I could write like this.
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Good noir AU, and a steamy sex scene in the last chapter, too.