There was no comparing Jyn and Bix. They were so different, they couldn't exist in the same feeling. Just for a moment, though, the body language felt like it was Jyn that Cassian was guiding through the Rix massacre. He brought up his other hand to cover hers.

Again, he wanted to ask more. Should he, now? Or was this working?

This revelation was so chilling, his heart pounded in his throat. Again, Jyn would be able to feel it.

Okay. A deal was a deal. He forced himself to keep up his end of it: "I had a sister. I didn't mean to leave her. But doing so is probably the biggest regret of my life. I was taken offplanet when I was nine and I've never seen her again."

He couldn't move on from this one. "…'Like she'd never been here before'?"