[ She wasn't blind, but that seemed to be precisely the problem here: he hoped she would be, blind to the Force and blind to the way that it moved around him. Surely she couldn't be the only one to recognize it for what it was? It baffled her, to look at him now and wonder how he hadn't been forced to explain himself sooner. ]
You're afraid that I won't understand. That no one will. [ It came to her suddenly—not through any means of the Force, but through an acute and personal recognition of it. She knew what it looked like because like recognized like, and it was something she'd felt for a long time now. Luke and Leia could not understand her as she was now. How could she expect anyone else to? And now here was Keith, similarly inundated in appearance only with the darkness, but not for the reasons it appeared. Maybe it was only her hope—that she could see herself in such a positive light, just as she saw Keith—but it carried her forward all the same. ]
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[ She wasn't blind, but that seemed to be precisely the problem here: he hoped she would be, blind to the Force and blind to the way that it moved around him. Surely she couldn't be the only one to recognize it for what it was? It baffled her, to look at him now and wonder how he hadn't been forced to explain himself sooner. ]
You're afraid that I won't understand. That no one will. [ It came to her suddenly—not through any means of the Force, but through an acute and personal recognition of it. She knew what it looked like because like recognized like, and it was something she'd felt for a long time now. Luke and Leia could not understand her as she was now. How could she expect anyone else to? And now here was Keith, similarly inundated in appearance only with the darkness, but not for the reasons it appeared. Maybe it was only her hope—that she could see herself in such a positive light, just as she saw Keith—but it carried her forward all the same. ]