Your fear of your own power is keeping you from using it. You're letting it use you.
[ Importantly, this is not an answer to his request. She has not decided if she is or isn't going to make him do it again. The power he had, that she had seen, is seductive. Already she can imagine that if he could overcome her as he had with such an outburst, directed properly, the two of them together might be able to ensure that neither of them had to worry about Snoke again.
It's a startling thought. One she will need to take time to consider — Snoke had been the source of her power, he'd pulled her out of nothing and given her a purpose. But he'd also done that by hurting her, damaging her, making her fear and loathe him. Considering it, however, will be pointless if Ben remains so damnably terrified of himself.
Considering the crux of his particular fear as he has voiced it, she softens by a hair to insist: ] And you didn't hurt me. [ He might have, had it continued, had she not deflected him. But he didn't. ]
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[ Importantly, this is not an answer to his request. She has not decided if she is or isn't going to make him do it again. The power he had, that she had seen, is seductive. Already she can imagine that if he could overcome her as he had with such an outburst, directed properly, the two of them together might be able to ensure that neither of them had to worry about Snoke again.
It's a startling thought. One she will need to take time to consider — Snoke had been the source of her power, he'd pulled her out of nothing and given her a purpose. But he'd also done that by hurting her, damaging her, making her fear and loathe him. Considering it, however, will be pointless if Ben remains so damnably terrified of himself.
Considering the crux of his particular fear as he has voiced it, she softens by a hair to insist: ] And you didn't hurt me. [ He might have, had it continued, had she not deflected him. But he didn't. ]