[ If his silhouette — broad, and now too familiar for her to mistake — hadn't alerted her to who, precisely, has joined her on this voyage, the affronted expression likely would have had the same effect.
Part of her thinks it must be a hallucination, the connection between them snapping back open despite her attempts to close the door on him, figuratively and literally. Or perhaps it's more apt to say part of her wants to believe it must be a hallucination, if only to make this simpler, easier on herself.
But he's here, flesh and blood. His observations of his surroundings confirm it, seeing it through his own eyes, and Rey can only allow her breath to hitch and her eyes to bore into the back of his head. ]
It isn't, [ she says, finally, when the silence has become so stifling that it feels like she's suffocating on it. ] Does it feel like the Unknown Regions to you?
[ For as little knowledge as she has in regard to their current circumstances, that doesn't stop the slightly imperious edge to her entirely rhetorical question. ]
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Part of her thinks it must be a hallucination, the connection between them snapping back open despite her attempts to close the door on him, figuratively and literally. Or perhaps it's more apt to say part of her wants to believe it must be a hallucination, if only to make this simpler, easier on herself.
But he's here, flesh and blood. His observations of his surroundings confirm it, seeing it through his own eyes, and Rey can only allow her breath to hitch and her eyes to bore into the back of his head. ]
It isn't, [ she says, finally, when the silence has become so stifling that it feels like she's suffocating on it. ] Does it feel like the Unknown Regions to you?
[ For as little knowledge as she has in regard to their current circumstances, that doesn't stop the slightly imperious edge to her entirely rhetorical question. ]