[ Rey echoes him, shifting a question to the end of the word to fall just shy of parroting. Her gaze lifts to his, searching his features—there's no judgment in them, just absolute honesty in her question; this isn't about telling him what he can or can't do, but finding out what he will do. It would be easy to offer her suggestion, firmly require that they stay on the side of trap, or even the more difficult route of making her own decision on whether killing her here is really necessary—a back up plan to allow for it, provided she doesn't take an opportunity to turn away from the darkness she's mired herself in. But that's not what this is about—Rey knows who she is. ]
Is that what we're trying to do?
[ Because the mine is a surefire way to kill her, and now he's hedging at the idea. Rallying her outside seems like a similarly effective way to push this to violence that they can't easily disengage from, can't draw a clear line of when to stop. The memory of how easily she'd stumbled upon the aching desire to spear him through with her lightsaber on Starkiller blooms in her mind as though it's fresh, and she can't imagine Kylo Ren is any less inclined towards violence.
In normal circumstances, they might not have the chance to discuss, to decide, but while they do, Rey plans to take it, damn him to philosophy and moralizing for as long as needed to come to some consensus. It helps that, to a certain extent, he's cornered. Sure, he could pop back down the staircase at a snail's pace without her guidance—he'd done mostly alright for himself—but even he has vocalized now that it's not the smart choice. ]
What if she's just as lost as you and needs a way back out of the dark? Shouldn't we … Shouldn't we at least offer that to her? [ Which only opens up the question of whether or not that really gives her a choice—death, or redemption. Rey tightens her jaw. The pragmatic, reasonable side of her knows what needs to be done in order to eliminate the inarguable threat against them, but looming darkness threatens the edge of her vision as if to warn her that it's a path she can't come back from, simply cutting down problems because she has the power to. ]
no subject
[ Rey echoes him, shifting a question to the end of the word to fall just shy of parroting. Her gaze lifts to his, searching his features—there's no judgment in them, just absolute honesty in her question; this isn't about telling him what he can or can't do, but finding out what he will do. It would be easy to offer her suggestion, firmly require that they stay on the side of trap, or even the more difficult route of making her own decision on whether killing her here is really necessary—a back up plan to allow for it, provided she doesn't take an opportunity to turn away from the darkness she's mired herself in. But that's not what this is about—Rey knows who she is. ]
Is that what we're trying to do?
[ Because the mine is a surefire way to kill her, and now he's hedging at the idea. Rallying her outside seems like a similarly effective way to push this to violence that they can't easily disengage from, can't draw a clear line of when to stop. The memory of how easily she'd stumbled upon the aching desire to spear him through with her lightsaber on Starkiller blooms in her mind as though it's fresh, and she can't imagine Kylo Ren is any less inclined towards violence.
In normal circumstances, they might not have the chance to discuss, to decide, but while they do, Rey plans to take it, damn him to philosophy and moralizing for as long as needed to come to some consensus. It helps that, to a certain extent, he's cornered. Sure, he could pop back down the staircase at a snail's pace without her guidance—he'd done mostly alright for himself—but even he has vocalized now that it's not the smart choice. ]
What if she's just as lost as you and needs a way back out of the dark? Shouldn't we … Shouldn't we at least offer that to her? [ Which only opens up the question of whether or not that really gives her a choice—death, or redemption. Rey tightens her jaw. The pragmatic, reasonable side of her knows what needs to be done in order to eliminate the inarguable threat against them, but looming darkness threatens the edge of her vision as if to warn her that it's a path she can't come back from, simply cutting down problems because she has the power to. ]