( He hangs in the balance between the finality of her first statement and the almost-accidental afterthought of the next. While he walks, he keeps his head down and wipes at his face with his hands, trying to clear the mud off where he can. Passing an X-wing with vicious carbon scoring on the port side, he reaches out with a burst of energy to snag a rag that hangs abandoned from the cockpit. Clearing his face is marginally easier, although the square of fabric smells like oil and gasoline and does little to help him get the splatters out of his hair. )
I have a great deal more practice keeping my thoughts to myself than you.
( There are multiple implications behind the weight he places in each individual word, but Kylo tries to keep it veering toward teaching and training her further rather than his own past transgressions and experiences. This is new territory to him as well: even connected as he was to Snoke so absolutely, that had been a crushing, dictatorial presence; Rey's is something he's altogether unfamiliar with in its totality. As much as he might eventually like to explore what's unfolding, Kylo doubts very much that he will be allowed to train her in anything, especially with Skywalker around to see to it that his influence on Rey remains at a minimum and that she continues whatever work they had been doing together on whatever lush, green landscape had accommodated them. )
Does she plan to take the entire planet with her? ( His voice in their heads drips sarcasm, laced with a certain amount of indignation, although Kylo understands without wanting to the potential reasons behind Organa's hesitations. He prefers looking at it from a military standpoint over a personal one. This seems a more optimal topic of conversation as he treks his way back across the camp and hits the treeline, spilling long legs into the forest and following the path that Rey lays out for him based on presence alone. The droid rolls ahead of him, sometimes swiveling around to look at him and then blasting off for a full minute so that there is adequate space between them. Kylo isn't sure how he feels about intimidating a droid, so he tries to ignore it, letting Rey's thoughts anchor her in time and space like a pin on a map. He gets the impression that were he to try hard enough, he could pick her signature, her presence, out of a dense crowd on Coruscant. ) What is she proposing?
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I have a great deal more practice keeping my thoughts to myself than you.
( There are multiple implications behind the weight he places in each individual word, but Kylo tries to keep it veering toward teaching and training her further rather than his own past transgressions and experiences. This is new territory to him as well: even connected as he was to Snoke so absolutely, that had been a crushing, dictatorial presence; Rey's is something he's altogether unfamiliar with in its totality. As much as he might eventually like to explore what's unfolding, Kylo doubts very much that he will be allowed to train her in anything, especially with Skywalker around to see to it that his influence on Rey remains at a minimum and that she continues whatever work they had been doing together on whatever lush, green landscape had accommodated them. )
Does she plan to take the entire planet with her? ( His voice in their heads drips sarcasm, laced with a certain amount of indignation, although Kylo understands without wanting to the potential reasons behind Organa's hesitations. He prefers looking at it from a military standpoint over a personal one. This seems a more optimal topic of conversation as he treks his way back across the camp and hits the treeline, spilling long legs into the forest and following the path that Rey lays out for him based on presence alone. The droid rolls ahead of him, sometimes swiveling around to look at him and then blasting off for a full minute so that there is adequate space between them. Kylo isn't sure how he feels about intimidating a droid, so he tries to ignore it, letting Rey's thoughts anchor her in time and space like a pin on a map. He gets the impression that were he to try hard enough, he could pick her signature, her presence, out of a dense crowd on Coruscant. ) What is she proposing?