[ It is interminably cruel that he should offer it. Unknowingly, she thinks, for there's no reason he should know that she has such a simple deficiency. But it is something she can't have. Kira is greedy, though, and gathers the book into her arms without hesitation, locking it against her chest and barring it there with her arm as though he might demand it back without notice.
She stuffs more crumbs of the rations packet into her mouth. ]
Why isn't this one on holo? [ Paper is unwieldy, she thinks. Sentimental and stuffy. Ben likes old things — this book, the Falcon. She knows few things about him for sure, but she knows that now, and she thinks that's probably worth as much as the book itself. ]
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She stuffs more crumbs of the rations packet into her mouth. ]
Why isn't this one on holo? [ Paper is unwieldy, she thinks. Sentimental and stuffy. Ben likes old things — this book, the Falcon. She knows few things about him for sure, but she knows that now, and she thinks that's probably worth as much as the book itself. ]