forcevisions: (I'd be usin')
actual shounen hero ([personal profile] forcevisions) wrote in [personal profile] sololoquy 2018-10-01 11:16 pm (UTC)

[ His breath hitches, and Rey's head tilts, puzzling over that reaction. Not surprise, not exactly, not arrested by the suddenness of her question. But he did not hesitate in dog-earing the book, did not need to look up at her. Her stomach flops with that awareness.

Fortunately the subject matter is too dire as to permit examination of that fact.
]

I'd never delude myself to believe I could hide from him.

[ Cynicism pollutes the declaration, making it sound faintly haughty and superior, but beneath that lies a bedrock of bitter resentment. Not of Snoke, necessarily. No, it's too complicated for that. Snoke has been the closest thing she has to a parent; she owes him too much, since he had taken her in by choice after her parents had not been able to rid themselves of her fast enough. He'd given her life worth and meaning. Even if he was a monster. But resentment that he has shackled her to him like this, resentment that now that he is not so giving, she cannot escape.

There is nowhere in the galaxy far enough to flee someone who has infected your mind.
]

They were fools to think they could.

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