She wakes laid out on a thin blanket over hard ground - cold, the night air misty, a fire crackling to her right. Dark trees overhead, and an unfamiliar night sky peeking through the leaves.

And, as Sunn stirs, a woman says, "Don't move too much. You're injured."

That's not very comforting. At all.

She opens her eyes. She doesn't feel like she has any spinal injuries... And - there's no way this is Jakku, she would've noticed if that ball of sand had any forests -

"Where is this?" she asks, sharply.

"Outside of Nemea, near Corinth. Greece, if you're as lost as you seem."

"I don't recognize those. What part of the galaxy is Greece?"

"Galaxy? I wasn't aware the Milky Way was something mortals could be in."

That gives her pause. "The Milky Way?" She shakes her head. "I haven't heard that term."

"Big river of stars in the sky at night?"

"The galaxy tends to look like that from a planet's surface," she says, slowly, after a pause.

" - That's implying a lot of things about where you think it's reasonable for mortals to see stars from."

"From assorted different planets in different parts of the galaxy, from spaceships, in hyperspace I guess, and if you wanted you could fly right up to one but that might be some kind of stupid depending on your ship and the star."

"Approaching stars isn't something mortals can usually do, here."

"We've been able to for as long as anyone knows, where I'm from."

"You seem increasingly foreign."

"Guess I must, here."

"Where's my armor?"

She gestures behind her. "It didn't look comfortable to rest in, or particularly good for your wounds, so I removed it. Carefully, of course. I know what armor means to a warrior."

She makes a face. That armor's a trap.

"I'm no warrior."

"Could've fooled me, with armor that high in quality."

"It's cheap where I'm from. Mass produced."

"Must be a strange place, then."

"It's normal, to me, so I wouldn't know."

"Do you have a way back?"

"Unless you found me near a ship - giant metal thing - then no."

"You were the only odd thing I found, and I didn't see anything fall from the stars."

"I'm probably stuck here, then, for a while at least."

"Well, I can help you get your feet under you."

"Thanks."

She nods.

"What's your name?"

She thinks, and then: "Sunn."

"I'm Xena. Nice to meet you, Sunn."

"Same, I guess."

"Do you have plans?"

"...Not really."

"I'm not usually one for traveling with a group. I can find somewhere that'll take you in, though, if you'd like."

"...Not sure I want to just - settle into some tiny village. I want to do things."

"An understandable desire. What do you want to do?"

"Dunno."

"I was a soldier for them. If I still knew where I was, I'd try to stop their plans for the galaxy. Since I don't... I don't want to leave people suffering and dying, I guess."

"...Yeah. I get that."

"What do you do?"

"I wander around. Sometimes I help people, when I see need."

"Might not be bad for me to start with."

"I'm usually not one for company."

"Me neither."

She hesitates for a bit, thinking.

"You can tag along for a bit if you want, then. At least until you find somewhere else to go."

Slow nod. "And at least until I heal more."

"That too. You couldn't win a fight with a rabbit right now."

She snorts. "Don't underestimate me."

"I'll try not to."

"Probably for the best."

She snorts.

"You got any sort of advanced healing or medicine? That wound's gonna lay you up for a while otherwise."

"Not with me."

"That could be a problem, then - but I might be able to get you to a healer."

"I can't pay."

"I can. And many don't need much payment."

"Generous of them."

"The people around them are usually generous in return."

"That'd make up for some of it, I guess."

"Some people just like helping others."

"...Huh."

"Is that surprising to you?"

"Haven't encountered it a lot."

"The world perhaps doesn't have enough people like that."

"Mine probably doesn't."

"Unfortunate. Still, if you get back, it'll have you, presumably."

"I'm not all that nice."

"Could've fooled me."

Small huff.

She hums, turning her attention to stoking the fire briefly.

Sunn sighs, and settles in to rest.

She keeps the fire tended through the night.

Sunn tries to sleep.

Nothing interrupts them before morning, at least.

Xena has food ready.

Well, Sunn's hungry, and not the slightest bit picky, given she's used to rations.

"You're healing well," Xena says. "I'll want to make sure nothing's super wrong, but I think we could probably get moving today..."

"That suits me. I don't like laying here."

"I understand the impulse entirely."

"How soon can we leave?"

"As soon as I can get a stretcher ready enough you can be pulled without excess pain."

"I can handle pretty good amounts of pain."

"Pain means further damage, regardless of whether you can 'handle it.'"

"...Maybe."