[Her words are like venom that he cannot siphon from the bond, and he has to avoid looking at her for a moment while he collects his emotions and shoves them into a box. Once that is done, he has to spit more blood aside before he can try again.]
Rey--stop!
[And then he sees what she is doing. She will earn the pleasure of seeing panic slip across his face, even when he knows that her gesture is symbolic rather than anything that would be effective. He shifts wildly to exert pressure on her nerve instead with the intent of knocking her out before she can strangle herself.
He doesn't bother to consider that the severance of the bond might allow his power back in full. The option simply isn't on the table. If he'd been able to kill Rey, he would have done it long before now. He doesn't just need her. He wants her.
When she wakes again. She will be in his quarters on the command shuttle, and he will be finishing off the last knot that he has tied to the foot of his bed keeping her arms apart. After that display, he is not about to give her the opportunity to do it again. Binders would give her too much flexibility.
The blood has dried on his face.]
It did not have to be this way, you know. This wasn't what I wanted.
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Rey--stop!
[And then he sees what she is doing. She will earn the pleasure of seeing panic slip across his face, even when he knows that her gesture is symbolic rather than anything that would be effective. He shifts wildly to exert pressure on her nerve instead with the intent of knocking her out before she can strangle herself.
He doesn't bother to consider that the severance of the bond might allow his power back in full. The option simply isn't on the table. If he'd been able to kill Rey, he would have done it long before now. He doesn't just need her. He wants her.
When she wakes again. She will be in his quarters on the command shuttle, and he will be finishing off the last knot that he has tied to the foot of his bed keeping her arms apart. After that display, he is not about to give her the opportunity to do it again. Binders would give her too much flexibility.
The blood has dried on his face.]
It did not have to be this way, you know. This wasn't what I wanted.