( Kylo lets her talk it out, acting as a sounding board more than anything else, although he gives minor adjustments in expression or small indications at the corner of his mouth to either agree or disagree with her. Were it him, he would set them down on Nar Shaddaa and be done with it, but she's right in assuming that landing there would garner them the sort of attention that they aren't looking for. It's difficult for him to think like a Resistance operative when he has spent so long moving unperturbed and uninterrupted through the galaxy, unafraid and unaffected by the sorts of problems and cautions that they run into now. Part of him wants to risk their presence on Nar Shaddaa regardless of the risk involved, knowing that between the two of them, he and Rey could cover their tracks through the Force quite nicely, with relative ease, but it's not a tactic that she's likely to be fond of, and if he's being honest with himself, Kylo doesn't know that he has the strength left in him right now to wipe their existence from memory were they to regroup there. )
Rejoining with the fleet could be beneficial. ( He pushes away from where he's been leaning and paces a slow, steady path between the galley unit and just a couple of feet from where Rey has taken up her position. ) They might assume a change of hands has taken place and be unsure which ship to focus the bulk of their attention on. It won't be an unexpected move, necessarily, but navigating through Roche will buy you enough time to stop them from breathing down the back of your neck, long enough for the First Order to begin looking in the territories I provided the Supreme Leader with. I think it's dangerous to reconvene with the Resistance with Knights pursuing you, yes, but the Knights aren't going to pursue with the sort of immediacy that the First Order is. It doesn't work like that.
( Which isn't an answer to her question, and Kylo knows that, but he needs a moment to talk it through himself in order to arrive at the other end of the spectrum, perceiving the idea of his Knights attacking a problem from an end opposite his, without his direction, without his command, without his control. )
Worst case? One of them finds us in the Roche asteroids and tails us to the Hapes Cluster, brings the entire First Order back down on the Resistance, unaware and unprepared, but that would mean leaving immediately, and Snoke is not going to scramble them so abruptly. Knights - ( He has to forcibly stop himself from saying my Knights, though the desire to do so is there, right at the tip of his tongue as it draws away from his teeth to pronounce the syllable necessary to complete the thought. Every word that follows feels like an acute betrayal of not only a collective that he spent the last decade believing in but also of a tight unit of some of the most gifted warriors - Force users or otherwise - that he has ever known. It's a betrayal they will see without question, once the smoke clears and the concussive glare of the blast wears off, and it's that bloodlust and thirst that they should be most concerned with. The First Order does not suffer traitors; the Knights of Ren dare not even breathe the word into existence. ) - operate independently of the First Order. When our efforts are coordinated, then we collaborate, but they are a unit distinctly different from what the First Order is and represents. They don't defer to any chain of command within the Order. They defer to me. And in my absence, they'll defer to Snoke directly as opposed to carrying out his orders through a channel and go to him for instruction when they're beckoned. ( Kylo levels a look at her, making sure that she's paying attention to this part. ) It's imperative that you understand the kind of people that you're going up against.
( The odds had been stacked against him, the first time, and partially even the second time, during their battle on Corellia. He had been injured on Starkiller Base, and he hadn't wanted to kill her in either skirmish, attacking with the controlled ferocity intended only to subdue. Rey knows the story, however she wants to paint it, but the reality is that had he been interested in killing her, had he been operating at full capacity, Kylo could have overpowered her without a second thought. The warm tendrils of darkness, offering to wrap her in a soft, powerful embrace, that she encounters every time she turns her head in the wrong direction is nothing compared to the tangle of Dark power that surrounds some of the Knights of Ren. Kylo glances at the lightsaber that is strapped to Rey's side, and he is immediately proud of his decision - and hers - to go back into the woods to retrieve it. )
I would keep the time that it takes to repair your ship to a minimum once you rendezvous with the Resistance on the other side of Roche. It won't be an immediate hunt for the Falcon's bumper, but it will come quickly once Snoke realizes that the Outer Rims are not actually our intended target. And he and the Knights won't exactly be pleased.
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Rejoining with the fleet could be beneficial. ( He pushes away from where he's been leaning and paces a slow, steady path between the galley unit and just a couple of feet from where Rey has taken up her position. ) They might assume a change of hands has taken place and be unsure which ship to focus the bulk of their attention on. It won't be an unexpected move, necessarily, but navigating through Roche will buy you enough time to stop them from breathing down the back of your neck, long enough for the First Order to begin looking in the territories I provided the Supreme Leader with. I think it's dangerous to reconvene with the Resistance with Knights pursuing you, yes, but the Knights aren't going to pursue with the sort of immediacy that the First Order is. It doesn't work like that.
( Which isn't an answer to her question, and Kylo knows that, but he needs a moment to talk it through himself in order to arrive at the other end of the spectrum, perceiving the idea of his Knights attacking a problem from an end opposite his, without his direction, without his command, without his control. )
Worst case? One of them finds us in the Roche asteroids and tails us to the Hapes Cluster, brings the entire First Order back down on the Resistance, unaware and unprepared, but that would mean leaving immediately, and Snoke is not going to scramble them so abruptly. Knights - ( He has to forcibly stop himself from saying my Knights, though the desire to do so is there, right at the tip of his tongue as it draws away from his teeth to pronounce the syllable necessary to complete the thought. Every word that follows feels like an acute betrayal of not only a collective that he spent the last decade believing in but also of a tight unit of some of the most gifted warriors - Force users or otherwise - that he has ever known. It's a betrayal they will see without question, once the smoke clears and the concussive glare of the blast wears off, and it's that bloodlust and thirst that they should be most concerned with. The First Order does not suffer traitors; the Knights of Ren dare not even breathe the word into existence. ) - operate independently of the First Order. When our efforts are coordinated, then we collaborate, but they are a unit distinctly different from what the First Order is and represents. They don't defer to any chain of command within the Order. They defer to me. And in my absence, they'll defer to Snoke directly as opposed to carrying out his orders through a channel and go to him for instruction when they're beckoned. ( Kylo levels a look at her, making sure that she's paying attention to this part. ) It's imperative that you understand the kind of people that you're going up against.
( The odds had been stacked against him, the first time, and partially even the second time, during their battle on Corellia. He had been injured on Starkiller Base, and he hadn't wanted to kill her in either skirmish, attacking with the controlled ferocity intended only to subdue. Rey knows the story, however she wants to paint it, but the reality is that had he been interested in killing her, had he been operating at full capacity, Kylo could have overpowered her without a second thought. The warm tendrils of darkness, offering to wrap her in a soft, powerful embrace, that she encounters every time she turns her head in the wrong direction is nothing compared to the tangle of Dark power that surrounds some of the Knights of Ren. Kylo glances at the lightsaber that is strapped to Rey's side, and he is immediately proud of his decision - and hers - to go back into the woods to retrieve it. )
I would keep the time that it takes to repair your ship to a minimum once you rendezvous with the Resistance on the other side of Roche. It won't be an immediate hunt for the Falcon's bumper, but it will come quickly once Snoke realizes that the Outer Rims are not actually our intended target. And he and the Knights won't exactly be pleased.