[ The components don't actually fit together. Kira realizes this rather quickly, noting before he gets through another chapter that there's not actually a complete blaster here. She gives up around then, setting them back on the nightstand where she'd found them, arranging them so that he can easily tell everything's there.
Afterwards she just tips her head back against the wall, shutting her eyes lest he think she's staring. She's so impassive as to look like she may have fallen asleep, but every once in a while she furrows her brow as though trying to parse some part of the story made difficult by hearing it rather than reading it, or some piece that she has to pick up on quickly now that she has skipped a considerable chunk and things need to be slotted into place.
It's an oddly peaceful moment. She loses herself in it, forgets the distracting ambient thoughts of maybe she ought to stare at him because she does want to give him the idea that she wants something from him.
Choosing to stop him feels impossible, but she knows eventually, that's what it needs to come down to. They will arrive. There is a task at hand still. And it simmers low in the back of her mind until she cannot physically ignore it anymore. She opens her eyes as he finishes a chapter. ]
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Afterwards she just tips her head back against the wall, shutting her eyes lest he think she's staring. She's so impassive as to look like she may have fallen asleep, but every once in a while she furrows her brow as though trying to parse some part of the story made difficult by hearing it rather than reading it, or some piece that she has to pick up on quickly now that she has skipped a considerable chunk and things need to be slotted into place.
It's an oddly peaceful moment. She loses herself in it, forgets the distracting ambient thoughts of maybe she ought to stare at him because she does want to give him the idea that she wants something from him.
Choosing to stop him feels impossible, but she knows eventually, that's what it needs to come down to. They will arrive. There is a task at hand still. And it simmers low in the back of her mind until she cannot physically ignore it anymore. She opens her eyes as he finishes a chapter. ]
Why is the Resistance in the Umbara System?