Steel trap. I thought you'd have a harder time keeping me out than that, after — [ Though it's clear she means the thought to end there, the implication comes through all the same, though her inner voice is toned lighter and sounds farther away than the one she uses to speak to him through the bond. ] —After we spent so much time in each other's heads.
[ It seems unlikely that he could be hiding something significant from her, but the fact that he'd managed to shut her out from his emotional responses during the conversation with Luke opens up the possibility all the same. She doesn't want to dwell on it because they simply don't have time for doubt and paranoia: she's relying on success. The whole Resistance is.
It bears question, too, why BB-8 would really be chasing him. The suggestion created a quick way to derail him from the droid's presence to what she was actually curious about, but BB-8 has good instincts. ]
I spoke with your mother. She doesn't want to abandon the planet.
[ More to the point, it seemed that she believed the Resistance had lost enough in the wake of Starkiller's destruction of the Republic and its remaining forces. But to identify that reasoning seemed a lot like digging her fingers into old wounds without benefit. ]
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[ It seems unlikely that he could be hiding something significant from her, but the fact that he'd managed to shut her out from his emotional responses during the conversation with Luke opens up the possibility all the same. She doesn't want to dwell on it because they simply don't have time for doubt and paranoia: she's relying on success. The whole Resistance is.
It bears question, too, why BB-8 would really be chasing him. The suggestion created a quick way to derail him from the droid's presence to what she was actually curious about, but BB-8 has good instincts. ]
I spoke with your mother. She doesn't want to abandon the planet.
[ More to the point, it seemed that she believed the Resistance had lost enough in the wake of Starkiller's destruction of the Republic and its remaining forces. But to identify that reasoning seemed a lot like digging her fingers into old wounds without benefit. ]