[ She shuts her eyes, turning her face briefly away from him. That's just … more insulting, somehow, but she tries not to let it rankle her like everything else. It's pretty obvious that Keith's opinion of her has plummeted. She doesn't blame him for that, exactly. But it stings all the same and she thinks she deserves better.
That's a new an exciting development for Rey: thinking she deserves better.
Anyway, despite her discomfort with the offer for telepathy, the truth is that … she's been able to read his feelings the whole time, passively. And there's no lie there. It's just that she doesn't think he knows what's best, even if he thinks it's what's best.
And … She doesn't believe that once she starts explaining, he'll stick around for all of it. There's that too. ]
And I don't need you to tell me about what's hard to face. I know. [ She snaps this. She'd deluded herself about her parents. Some part of her, admittedly, is curious if she really is hiding something else away, but —
No. He's projecting a problem because he doesn't understand all the context. Worse, this right here is the hard truth to face: that Kylo had been right about Keith all along. She couldn't trust him. ]
I'm sorry. Anything I tell you, you'll just tell to whoever you want. [ She drops her head. She wanted to try to trust him, but … Loki. Poe. This sword. As long as he feels like he knows better than her about how to handle this, he's going to do whatever he feels is right — tell whoever he thinks he needs to tell. ]
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[ She shuts her eyes, turning her face briefly away from him. That's just … more insulting, somehow, but she tries not to let it rankle her like everything else. It's pretty obvious that Keith's opinion of her has plummeted. She doesn't blame him for that, exactly. But it stings all the same and she thinks she deserves better.
That's a new an exciting development for Rey: thinking she deserves better.
Anyway, despite her discomfort with the offer for telepathy, the truth is that … she's been able to read his feelings the whole time, passively. And there's no lie there. It's just that she doesn't think he knows what's best, even if he thinks it's what's best.
And … She doesn't believe that once she starts explaining, he'll stick around for all of it. There's that too. ]
And I don't need you to tell me about what's hard to face. I know. [ She snaps this. She'd deluded herself about her parents. Some part of her, admittedly, is curious if she really is hiding something else away, but —
No. He's projecting a problem because he doesn't understand all the context. Worse, this right here is the hard truth to face: that Kylo had been right about Keith all along. She couldn't trust him. ]
I'm sorry. Anything I tell you, you'll just tell to whoever you want. [ She drops her head. She wanted to try to trust him, but … Loki. Poe. This sword. As long as he feels like he knows better than her about how to handle this, he's going to do whatever he feels is right — tell whoever he thinks he needs to tell. ]