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he shifts awkwardly next to the blonde, memorizing the patrol patterns with soft, muted TAPS of fingertips to his thigh. the first order was all about PRECISION ———– men trained to be monsters and machines, to report to NUMBERS and
TITLESrather thannames. his disappearance with the sacred, HIGHLY SENSITIVE information that’s chained around his neck had called for a PRICE to be placed upon his head.
( he’ll sooner DIE thanjointhe order again ——- what they were doing was wrong, what he did was WRONG, despite his master’s bewitching tongue that’s been in his head his whole life. )
everyone had their breaking point ; and ben hadfinallyreached HIS.❛ because i won’t stand by and watch more systems be destroyed. ❜ it’s simple enough, right? ( there was also a healthy amount of self - examination, several mental breakdowns, and the force ghosts of his dead grandparents AND his
father… but that’s awfully PRIVATE, and she doesn’t need to know that. )he reaches out with the force when the footsteps cease — they’ve gone back to report, clearly dissatisfied with their search along the beach. some of them worry about the general’s wrath. ( he doesn’t blame them. )
❛ —–get ready to run for the TIES. ❜ he grips his lightsaber hilt in his hand ( APRECAUTION) ready to fight ( A DEFINITE ) and PROTECT ( though, he has a feeling she can handle herself just fine. )
ah! but she could have SWORN that he had just told her to prepare herself for the TIEs. it was one thing to hear it alluded to another to come to the REALISATION ( her face already drained of COLOUR, her fingers already beginning to curl against the cold duracrete wall ) that he truly was saying that, and that they were about to make a run for the fliers. in her mind’s eye, she could only see DESTRUCTION: a shot of red, a blinding flash at her face before the shots of one of the stormtroopers caught her.
( would her sister LAUGH if she were the one who CAUGHT her? no: phasma never laughed. brienne had not seen a smile, the crack of a grin like sunset dawning across any planet’s horizon, on that face for far too long, and now it was too LATE. she knew how terrible it was, and how far that disposition had gotten knew now that her mirror image was scarred beyond repair and would kill with a blink of an EYE. she knew that, and still wanted leniency. only, though, after she got AWAY. )
❛ you said run for the TIEs. ❜ she meant that as a question, but by the second SYLLABLE, she already knew the answer to it. morphed it into a statement, albeit disbelieving and perhaps even slightly put off. she had to remind herself to keep her voice low, lest the others hear and CUT them down before they even had a chance to start. ❛ you’re joking. do you know how to fly one yourself? ❜