[He notices it, and fights the smile it threatens to bring -- really, it'd be a sad sort of smile anyway. She's hooked on his every word, but that makes sense of course. If she was raised by Snoke, he can't imagine she's ever been read to. Had she ever read fiction to start with? Aside from all the First Order propaganda, that is.
He considers her demand for a moment, dropping his gaze while all his sympathetic thoughts climb over each other. When he had agreed to take her on board, he hadn't expected this sort of behavior. He expected the hovering, the ordering about, and had been prepared for that with his own rebuttals. He has no rebuttal for this, only the reminder that she is a fascist killing machine...in theory.
But what kind of fascist killing machine wanted teen romance novels read to them?
Ben decides before long that he can't think about it too deeply. He only has room to care about one organization, and that organization certainly wasn't going to be the First Order.]
Okay.
[He flips the book back to its dog-earred page and picks back up from where he'd left off, trying to remember the voice acting he'd already committed to. They are deep in the plot now, with the hero going through some self-discovery plot and discovering the Force within him, and how it connects him to the rest of the galaxy.
The focus switches from introduction to the hero being chased down, and then to being threatened. The love interest taken hostage, being forced to choose between autonomy and her life. Somewhere from before he'd read to Kira, a Wookiee companion had been introduced, and his life is to be traded for the love interest. He doesn't translate the Shyriiwook -- there's too much drama to bother.
Out of the corner of his eye, he watches Kira mess with the blaster parts.]
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He considers her demand for a moment, dropping his gaze while all his sympathetic thoughts climb over each other. When he had agreed to take her on board, he hadn't expected this sort of behavior. He expected the hovering, the ordering about, and had been prepared for that with his own rebuttals. He has no rebuttal for this, only the reminder that she is a fascist killing machine...in theory.
But what kind of fascist killing machine wanted teen romance novels read to them?
Ben decides before long that he can't think about it too deeply. He only has room to care about one organization, and that organization certainly wasn't going to be the First Order.]
Okay.
[He flips the book back to its dog-earred page and picks back up from where he'd left off, trying to remember the voice acting he'd already committed to. They are deep in the plot now, with the hero going through some self-discovery plot and discovering the Force within him, and how it connects him to the rest of the galaxy.
The focus switches from introduction to the hero being chased down, and then to being threatened. The love interest taken hostage, being forced to choose between autonomy and her life. Somewhere from before he'd read to Kira, a Wookiee companion had been introduced, and his life is to be traded for the love interest. He doesn't translate the Shyriiwook -- there's too much drama to bother.
Out of the corner of his eye, he watches Kira mess with the blaster parts.]