[It's all so true, true enough that he knows better than to react. Kylo Ren imagines this beautiful moment when he turns to Rey and just smiles, like he knows better than her. That's not what happens though.
She earns herself the outburst she had no doubt been craving to see, a slamming of the canteen that sends boiling water all over his hand and burns the skin there before he turns and rapidly closes the distance, looming over her and stopped short only by the meal he had given her -- a reminder that she was still weak, that he was still not at full strength, and that giving in too deeply to that anger could kill them both.
So instead, he's stuck breathing like an angry bantha, hovering over her and trembling with the urge to strangle her into the mattress.]
And yet here I stand. Being without you did not do a very good job of killing me.
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She earns herself the outburst she had no doubt been craving to see, a slamming of the canteen that sends boiling water all over his hand and burns the skin there before he turns and rapidly closes the distance, looming over her and stopped short only by the meal he had given her -- a reminder that she was still weak, that he was still not at full strength, and that giving in too deeply to that anger could kill them both.
So instead, he's stuck breathing like an angry bantha, hovering over her and trembling with the urge to strangle her into the mattress.]
And yet here I stand. Being without you did not do a very good job of killing me.