It's fine. [Is the response that comes, too sharp to be a comfort when they've both been severed from the figurative shoreline.
For so long they've been here at one another's sides, fixed shadows under Snoke's watchful gaze— and now not. Isolated by the very thing that had brought them both together in the first place. He could ask Hux why he chose to reach out for physical contact, but Ren already knows: just as he clings desperately (foolishly) to potential validation, just as Ilde set her heart in his hands, their collectively suffocated cravings find purchase in quiet, narrow spaces.
There's no explanation he can give that could possibly convey how gutted, how empty he feels in the wake of it all. Having to choose time and time again to be anything but human.
A mirrored sentiment Ren finds when he glances upwards towards the General's hard-set jawline. It prompts an urge to say something more— to puncture the tension that comes from blistered skin and alleviate some fraction of pressure— but he was never prone to eloquence or sincerity. ]
Her brood might search for retribution.
[And like this, at least for the moment, they might find it.]
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For so long they've been here at one another's sides, fixed shadows under Snoke's watchful gaze— and now not. Isolated by the very thing that had brought them both together in the first place. He could ask Hux why he chose to reach out for physical contact, but Ren already knows: just as he clings desperately (foolishly) to potential validation, just as Ilde set her heart in his hands, their collectively suffocated cravings find purchase in quiet, narrow spaces.
There's no explanation he can give that could possibly convey how gutted, how empty he feels in the wake of it all. Having to choose time and time again to be anything but human.
A mirrored sentiment Ren finds when he glances upwards towards the General's hard-set jawline. It prompts an urge to say something more— to puncture the tension that comes from blistered skin and alleviate some fraction of pressure— but he was never prone to eloquence or sincerity. ]
Her brood might search for retribution.
[And like this, at least for the moment, they might find it.]