He felt the same way. He hoped he wasn't about to push it too far. But he felt she had a right to know what he'd seen.
"On Eadu. On that platform. When I had your father in my sights. I saw it all at once. How your story made sense and ours didn't. How you were right that extraction would be so much worse for them than assassination. …How you and he have the same eyes." Not that that should have been a factor, but it had been there.
"Then I saw the Man in White kill the rest of the science team and strike your father down. Why would he have done that, but to make your father's last moments filled with despair?"
(It was no comfort to Cassian that, between the Alliance bombers and Krennic's blaster, Galen Erso would have died then no matter what. The fact remained it had been the Alliance that killed him and Cassian hadn't been able to stop it.)
"I saw you and him at the last and saw the look on his face. You gave him hope.
"It doesn't make up for how it went down, how we betrayed you, but I know: you didn't fail him. You transformed his last minutes from despair to hope. That means so much. That can be everything. You saved him. I know because it's what you did for me."
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"On Eadu. On that platform. When I had your father in my sights. I saw it all at once. How your story made sense and ours didn't. How you were right that extraction would be so much worse for them than assassination. …How you and he have the same eyes." Not that that should have been a factor, but it had been there.
"Then I saw the Man in White kill the rest of the science team and strike your father down. Why would he have done that, but to make your father's last moments filled with despair?"
(It was no comfort to Cassian that, between the Alliance bombers and Krennic's blaster, Galen Erso would have died then no matter what. The fact remained it had been the Alliance that killed him and Cassian hadn't been able to stop it.)
"I saw you and him at the last and saw the look on his face. You gave him hope.
"It doesn't make up for how it went down, how we betrayed you, but I know: you didn't fail him. You transformed his last minutes from despair to hope. That means so much. That can be everything. You saved him. I know because it's what you did for me."