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[aurebesh]

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[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. ]

[chandrila]

Now that’s a more confident lie. You’re getting better.

[aurebesh]

You're very fixated on improving my ability to deceive you.

[chandrila]

I'm interested in how often it happens in our conversation.

[aurebesh]

Perhaps if you were a better conversationalist, I would not need to lie.

[ z? snap? ]

[chandrila]

Would you be more inclined to be honest if I were more talkative?

[ he's not offering, but. ]

[aurebesh]

I might be willing to consider it if I thought that was a possibility.

[ why you always lyin ]

[chandrila]

[ he could just sit there and stare at her. silently. surely that's better. ]

I don't think making interesting conversation was a high priority in either of our upbringings.

[aurebesh]

Does that mean it has to be a facet of our adult lives as well? I don't plan to go back to scavenging for portions, and that was admittedly the majority of my youth.

[chandrila]

It doesn't have to be. I don't think we don't have to be any one thing. That's what people do, right? Converse when they mean to? If they feel like it?

[ he sounds patronizing but the curiosity is genuine. ]

[aurebesh]

Sometimes.

[ it does sound almost sarcastic, but she can sense the sincerity in it. she does not shut him out, just yet. ]

Sometimes it is just better to not be alone.