[ To her credit, Kira follows through on her promise. She does stop staring at him, instead picking some of the blaster parts off his nightstand and diverting her attention to fidgeting with them, piecing components together and inspecting them while he reads. It keeps her hands occupied with something mindless while she focuses on the story.
He has a calming voice when he's not being obnoxious, rumbling and consistently dipping in and out of different characters, and it's a good story. She hadn't expected fiction, somehow, but this is an adventure story. The hero is charming and brave and he swoops in to rescue that woman. It's all very silly, frankly. The world Kira knows does not work this way. There are no heroes who swoop in and save anyone. There is only the cold reality that if you want to survive, you cultivate power, and those who have power seek to use it.
The absurdity of it, so removed from reality, does not stop her from looking up with wide, frantic eyes when he interrupts himself. The panic doesn't strike the rest of her face, but by the look in her eyes, you'd think he had threatened to depressurize the cabin. ]
Don't stop.
[ It comes out tight like an order. Her hand grips the blaster component a little tighter. But of course he's bored. He's read it all before. By the look of it, she suspects multiple times, but she tries to barter anyway— ]
Skip ahead to where you were.
[ Then he can go back to reading, and she can just be a voyeur to it. ]
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He has a calming voice when he's not being obnoxious, rumbling and consistently dipping in and out of different characters, and it's a good story. She hadn't expected fiction, somehow, but this is an adventure story. The hero is charming and brave and he swoops in to rescue that woman. It's all very silly, frankly. The world Kira knows does not work this way. There are no heroes who swoop in and save anyone. There is only the cold reality that if you want to survive, you cultivate power, and those who have power seek to use it.
The absurdity of it, so removed from reality, does not stop her from looking up with wide, frantic eyes when he interrupts himself. The panic doesn't strike the rest of her face, but by the look in her eyes, you'd think he had threatened to depressurize the cabin. ]
Don't stop.
[ It comes out tight like an order. Her hand grips the blaster component a little tighter. But of course he's bored. He's read it all before. By the look of it, she suspects multiple times, but she tries to barter anyway— ]
Skip ahead to where you were.
[ Then he can go back to reading, and she can just be a voyeur to it. ]