[ His curiosity about the Grand Admiral reminds her of Thrawn's observations about Ben, the way he'd avoided speaking of her. That context only proves more confusing when coupled with the already circular and distracted thoughts she'd had after his hard line about overrunning the Sea Clan, and the way he advances on her.
One of her heels shifts back like he's the stalking animal, not its prey. She stops herself short within a few inches, but the movement of the cloth he uses to tend his wound draws her attention right back down and her breath catches in her throat for a moment. Like a lump. The injury isn't terrible — no worse than the healing scrape in her arm from the ogre fight with Yusuke and Aizawa — but it's right there in her face at eye level.
When she tears her eyes away he heaps another question on her and she's left puzzling. It's a lot of input at once. Thrawn, her strategy for infiltrating the castle, and Ben's … presence.
She gapes. So if that's what he was going for, well, success. Her jaw hangs open for one, two seconds before she actually makes a cracking sound from the back of her throat, and then finally real words follow it out after. ]
Have you had someone look at that? [ It's not exactly dressed. And neither is he. Kriff, that's not the point. In fact that addresses neither of his questions. ]
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One of her heels shifts back like he's the stalking animal, not its prey. She stops herself short within a few inches, but the movement of the cloth he uses to tend his wound draws her attention right back down and her breath catches in her throat for a moment. Like a lump. The injury isn't terrible — no worse than the healing scrape in her arm from the ogre fight with Yusuke and Aizawa — but it's right there in her face at eye level.
When she tears her eyes away he heaps another question on her and she's left puzzling. It's a lot of input at once. Thrawn, her strategy for infiltrating the castle, and Ben's … presence.
She gapes. So if that's what he was going for, well, success. Her jaw hangs open for one, two seconds before she actually makes a cracking sound from the back of her throat, and then finally real words follow it out after. ]
Have you had someone look at that? [ It's not exactly dressed. And neither is he. Kriff, that's not the point. In fact that addresses neither of his questions. ]