[ He advances and, even with full faith in the way she'd seen him force Snoke from his mind, seen him choose the middle path for herself, she takes a hasty series of steps back before he reaches full height. Even his clumsiness doesn't dissuade her from her startle response, bracing instinctively for a violent recourse that never comes.
Her breath leaves her then, drawn back into her chest in slow form, accepting that she'd misread when he stills and disarming herself from the defensive stance she had taken in the center of the cluster of honeycombed crew bunks. ]
It's not like I had time to think about it! [ Instead of wearing the defensiveness in her shoulders, she projects it in a raised voice. ] Getting you back here was more important than finding it.
[ Priorities to keep straight. Disarming the First Order of one of their most powerful assets was an incomparable victory, easily outweighing the missing saber. Without it, the Resistance could still win. Without Kylo Ren, the First Order could very well lose. The calculations were simple, straightforward. At least, they had seemed so at the time. ]
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Her breath leaves her then, drawn back into her chest in slow form, accepting that she'd misread when he stills and disarming herself from the defensive stance she had taken in the center of the cluster of honeycombed crew bunks. ]
It's not like I had time to think about it! [ Instead of wearing the defensiveness in her shoulders, she projects it in a raised voice. ] Getting you back here was more important than finding it.
[ Priorities to keep straight. Disarming the First Order of one of their most powerful assets was an incomparable victory, easily outweighing the missing saber. Without it, the Resistance could still win. Without Kylo Ren, the First Order could very well lose. The calculations were simple, straightforward. At least, they had seemed so at the time. ]
It's just a sword.