- "You have to hang on to your mind."
"I'm trying."
"Don't try. Do it. Do it, do it, do it. Because you don't want to hear the rasping, scraping thing in the walls. Once you hear that, then you know. Hope? Gone. Mind? Going, going. Then, after all the scritching and scratching, you hear the laughter. Ha ha ha. So funny. The thing in there, the man in the walls, he thinks everything is a joke. But when you hear the laughing, Mattis, when you hear the laughing, that's when you're all done. Mind is gone. They could set you free that day. They could put you on a shuttle and send you back to your home, but you would still be here. You'd be a prisoner forever. Prisoner of Wanten, prisoner of Harra the Hutt, prisoner in your own mind."
"What can I do?"
"Hold on to hope. Find her and keep her."
"Hope?"
"She wants to fly away. She wants to be free of here, but you can't let her go. You need her. In here, you need her most of all. You lose her, you hear the scraping, you hear the walls yammering and calling you names, and then you hear it laughing at you. You don't want the walls to laugh at you." - ―Cost Niktur and Mattis Banz
Cost Niktur was a female human who grew up on Genhu. In 34 ABY, Ymmoss and Niktur were captured by the First Order and Harra who sent them to her stronghold on Vodran. When J-Squadron was captured on Vodran, Ymmoss and Niktur helped J-Squadron escape the stronghold.[1]
Appearances
- Join the Resistance: Escape from Vodran (and audiobook) (First appearance)
- Join the Resistance: Attack on Starkiller Base (and audiobook)