[ When he gazes out over the garden, he goes somewhere else for a moment there. Rey watches the shift happen, feeling suddenly an outside observer.
She wants to ask, to know what that shift was, but she's quite sure he wouldn't tell her if she did. But she takes a silent moment to study him, at least, to consider that even catching sight of whatever happens there in his expression is more than she's gotten before, even if she cannot ascribe significance to it. ]
If something happened, I'd rather hear it from you first than from Poe during an argument. [ She's not suggesting that it was anything as bad as on Viridian Sea, but she does recognize now that she wouldn't know if it was. So it seems worth saying. As she says it, she leans on the railing beside him, more open in her posture. Less hunched under invisible burdens, more serene. ]
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She wants to ask, to know what that shift was, but she's quite sure he wouldn't tell her if she did. But she takes a silent moment to study him, at least, to consider that even catching sight of whatever happens there in his expression is more than she's gotten before, even if she cannot ascribe significance to it. ]
If something happened, I'd rather hear it from you first than from Poe during an argument. [ She's not suggesting that it was anything as bad as on Viridian Sea, but she does recognize now that she wouldn't know if it was. So it seems worth saying. As she says it, she leans on the railing beside him, more open in her posture. Less hunched under invisible burdens, more serene. ]