[ she says, at the same time the tech says, 'whatever's necessary to initiate the connection.' oh. obviously, it makes more sense that he'd have asked that of the tech, and not her. looking a little put out, rey sits up straighter and faces kylo directly.
she extends her hand to take his opposite one. for a bomb, it looks awfully innocuous. but beneath the skin simmers a heady cocktail of guilt and fear. guilt that he had come out here to new beijing to see her, come to riverstone not because he would have done it on his own but to support her, all with the apparent intention of soliciting some formalization of their connection, and she'd snapped. fear because she knows what had caused her to snap, what lay on the horizon of that snap, fear because she can't help but feel it's drawing ever closer. ]
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[ she says, at the same time the tech says, 'whatever's necessary to initiate the connection.' oh. obviously, it makes more sense that he'd have asked that of the tech, and not her. looking a little put out, rey sits up straighter and faces kylo directly.
she extends her hand to take his opposite one. for a bomb, it looks awfully innocuous. but beneath the skin simmers a heady cocktail of guilt and fear. guilt that he had come out here to new beijing to see her, come to riverstone not because he would have done it on his own but to support her, all with the apparent intention of soliciting some formalization of their connection, and she'd snapped. fear because she knows what had caused her to snap, what lay on the horizon of that snap, fear because she can't help but feel it's drawing ever closer. ]