[ The sudden burst outward knocks her from his mind and then some. Kira staggers back, flinching away with the stab of it. She shakes it off and looks down at where he has doubled over, crushed not under her power, but under the weight of his own.
It summons a complicated mess of emotions in her. Satisfaction that she has succeded is short-lived and wan, undermined by all the rest. In its company comes a pain and loneliness that she can't quite process as regret or guilt, which she quickly suppresses. But beyond that, fear — of Ben lashing out, of Snoke finding them and replacing her with him, of losing everything because she'd prodded this darkness inside of him.
She reaches for him. ]
Ben. That's it.
[ She grabs for his shoulder, sounding encouraging in some terrible way. If he is hers, then her fears are meaningless. ]
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It summons a complicated mess of emotions in her. Satisfaction that she has succeded is short-lived and wan, undermined by all the rest. In its company comes a pain and loneliness that she can't quite process as regret or guilt, which she quickly suppresses. But beyond that, fear — of Ben lashing out, of Snoke finding them and replacing her with him, of losing everything because she'd prodded this darkness inside of him.
She reaches for him. ]
Ben. That's it.
[ She grabs for his shoulder, sounding encouraging in some terrible way. If he is hers, then her fears are meaningless. ]
Hold onto it. Use it. Don't let it control you.