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[aurebesh]

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[aurebesh]

And what did I sound like before?

[chandrila]

Someone else. Yourself.

[ bad associations with jedi masters and all. ]

[aurebesh]

If you find the expectations so terrible, don't fulfill them.

[ if her bossing him around is that horrible, why is he agreeing to do these things ]

[chandrila]

My point is that you don't have to be like them. It's your path forward.

[aurebesh]

You sound like a holofeed.

[ of her, no less. she's sure she'd given him much the same advice once, before he'd turned back to the light. ]

I'm not trying to be like anyone.

[chandrila]

Of who? You?

[ their bond is, if anything, intensifying the more time they communicate. blurring the line between their minds. ]

[aurebesh]

You know what I meant.

[ yes. ]

[chandrila]

I can feel when you’re reaching out. When you’re inside my thoughts. Is it the same for you?

[ means yes, he knows. ]

[aurebesh]

It gives me a headache when you push too hard.

[chandrila]

I don’t want to hurt you. Just words, I know. I mean that as a promise.

[aurebesh]

Then don't. Use your words. Ask me if you want to know something, instead of forcing your way into the answer.

[ "no" is a complete sentence. ]

[chandrila]

I was taught both schools of thought. First to search for the answer. To let it come to me. Then I was taught how to take it by force.

[ it isn’t an apology or meant to be one. he’s reflecting aloud. ]

I was also taught to submit when my own mind was searched. It was often unpleasant, being read so often and deeply. But when it’s you, it’s almost... a comfort.

[aurebesh]

You're not entitled to the information simply because you want it, Ben. Sometimes I'm not going to tell you. That doesn't give you rights to take the information from my mind.

[ in truth, she gives herself a headache by trying to keep him out. or, less often, in trying to stay out of his. ]

[chandrila]

Even if I wanted to, I haven't been able to read your thoughts since Exegol. Sometimes I find our minds are bridged without meaning to. The effort is more in trying to keep them separate.

[aurebesh]

A Jedi Master would say you should take up meditation.

[ aggressively thinks the lyrics to cats songs just to torment him?? ]

[chandrila]

That would take your participation too.

[ i see u like ur ben solo as unstable as possible hdu ]

[aurebesh]

Maybe it would. I could stand the practice.

[ i'd have to look up cats lyrics for that and i'm lazy ]

[chandrila]

You are very attached to the word maybe.

[ instead of an emo rey is a broadway thot

cursed content ]

[aurebesh]

You're very attached to circular conversation.

[chandrila]

You met my uncle, right?

[aurebesh]

Somehow, I think the maddening pretentions are all you.

[chandrila]

It's made me plenty of friends.

[aurebesh]

Do those friends have names?

[chandrila]

[ ah, that naïveté. it stirs something in ben’s chest. ]

Does it look like I’ve ever had friends?

[aurebesh]

It was a rhetorical question.

[ no, it wasn't. but, in truth, rey has also never had friends. not before the resistance, anyway. ]