[ The mistake occurs when Rey tries to shield him from the fall, leaving her to land with her shoulder stretched, the point of articulation cracking cruelly on impact, jarring her with splitting pain that temporarily blinds her. She rolls over onto the shoulder, cradling it, dirt sticking to the blood on her face and arms drawn by the broken glass she'd charged through. One deeply drawn breath gets her up onto her feet, and though the echoes of agony rumble through her arm like shockwaves, she flexes and clenches her hand to make sure that it's at least usable for now.
She staggers under Kylo's guidance, still dazed enough to be nudged along like a child in a manner she'll be furious with herself for later, but she backs up with all the urgency of someone who has not lost sight of the fact that it was desperate enough to hurl herself out a window to escape.
It could be over. If they'd already planted charges of some kind—there was bound to be something explosive in the buildings. Her fried senses have her mind wandering, scolding her for taking the time to argue philosophy and morality with him rather than prepare, but as her feet kick up dust in the hurry to back away from the administrative section of the mine, Rey tries to muster up a background plan.
Sniper. Damn the both of them. Her lightsaber's in her hands, for all the good it will do, and she lights it up in anticipation of deflecting the fire—but she's never deflected something of the caliber that Kylo's warning threatens before, and she's not wholly convinced that it isn't just as likely to damage the blade in some form of negative feedback. It only occurs to her, with the hilt of her lightsaber squarely held in both hands, that the glowrod was lost somewhere along the way, and instead, the beam of her weapon draws attention to them through the smoke and the storm of dust. ]
The mine shaft. [ Damn the dangers. The familiarity of the connection between their thoughts helps to calm the tempest rattling around in her own head, giving her an anchor to level out the daze that she'd been left in after the fall. It occurs to her, and unfortunately she realizes a half a beat later that it was left open to him as well, that she could hide him there, defend the opening to the mine, and rebuff Ji herself if she wanted to. After all, he's the one she wants, the traitor that she needs to drag back before their leader in order to win his position. ]
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She staggers under Kylo's guidance, still dazed enough to be nudged along like a child in a manner she'll be furious with herself for later, but she backs up with all the urgency of someone who has not lost sight of the fact that it was desperate enough to hurl herself out a window to escape.
It could be over. If they'd already planted charges of some kind—there was bound to be something explosive in the buildings. Her fried senses have her mind wandering, scolding her for taking the time to argue philosophy and morality with him rather than prepare, but as her feet kick up dust in the hurry to back away from the administrative section of the mine, Rey tries to muster up a background plan.
Sniper. Damn the both of them. Her lightsaber's in her hands, for all the good it will do, and she lights it up in anticipation of deflecting the fire—but she's never deflected something of the caliber that Kylo's warning threatens before, and she's not wholly convinced that it isn't just as likely to damage the blade in some form of negative feedback. It only occurs to her, with the hilt of her lightsaber squarely held in both hands, that the glowrod was lost somewhere along the way, and instead, the beam of her weapon draws attention to them through the smoke and the storm of dust. ]
The mine shaft. [ Damn the dangers. The familiarity of the connection between their thoughts helps to calm the tempest rattling around in her own head, giving her an anchor to level out the daze that she'd been left in after the fall. It occurs to her, and unfortunately she realizes a half a beat later that it was left open to him as well, that she could hide him there, defend the opening to the mine, and rebuff Ji herself if she wanted to. After all, he's the one she wants, the traitor that she needs to drag back before their leader in order to win his position. ]