Because this is the culmination of your actions. The decision you were bound to face the moment you decided to aid them. [FN-2187 had fallen into her lap much the same way the droid had, and each fumbling, sprawling step taken from that point forward was little more than another rolling, eager shockwave, echoing outwards and onwards until she could no longer outrun the inevitable: his offer-- Snoke's offer-- or the certainty of torment dragging on and on until she proved herself no longer necessary.
This time his stare glints with something deeper, earnesty pooling just beneath the surface of his own innate deceptions, and he licks his lips before he adds, openly:] I know what it is, to suffer because of someone else.
[Even as he says it, even as she understands that he's trying to garner sympathy with her -- Rey understands the truth in his words. This isn't the result of some seduction from the Dark Side, she had seen it when their minds had pushed against one another. Whatever had truly happened to him, he had felt...wronged. Cast aside, suffering, alone. A victim of someone else's misguided actions.
All feelings she's familiar with, and nothing she wants to think about ever again. Is that how Finn would feel about her? And the Resistance--]
So you think it is inevitable. I disagree. So it looks like you're still out of luck.
The greatest benefit of captivity is time. [Back and forth, moves and countermeasures: as it was within her head so it is in conversation, and Ren opts-- as always-- not to flinch or shy away from her deflections. His hand moves for her jawline again. Gentler this time, leather catching the blood from her cheek where it's fallen. Were he capable of more, it might even be considered affectionate.]
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This time his stare glints with something deeper, earnesty pooling just beneath the surface of his own innate deceptions, and he licks his lips before he adds, openly:] I know what it is, to suffer because of someone else.
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All feelings she's familiar with, and nothing she wants to think about ever again. Is that how Finn would feel about her? And the Resistance--]
So you think it is inevitable. I disagree. So it looks like you're still out of luck.
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Of which we now have much, I think you'll find.