Cassian went so stone-still, the loth-cat story made perfect sense. No such softening of the moment here, though.
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If Cassian had ever really believed in the Force, he would curse it.
I make my own choices. I thought that was what we were fighting for. Every time I walked away from something I wanted to forget…
I'm not used to people sticking around.
Oh god…
"I've been here before," he said at last, dumbly. Things said in the last hours, the looks on her face, the way she touched him, all fell into place. It went like thunder through his eyes, if not on his frozen face. "With you."
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If Cassian had ever really believed in the Force, he would curse it.
I make my own choices.
I thought that was what we were fighting for.
Every time I walked away from something I wanted to forget…
I'm not used to people sticking around.
Oh god…
"I've been here before," he said at last, dumbly. Things said in the last hours, the looks on her face, the way she touched him, all fell into place. It went like thunder through his eyes, if not on his frozen face. "With you."
He didn't let go of her hands.