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[aurebesh]

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[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.

[chandrila]

After so many years of solitude, I can say confidently that solitude solves nothing.

Does it feel like you're alone?

[aurebesh]

Ben, you were never alone.

[ are you fuckin kidding me, bruh, you had a whole knighthood.

she's also not answering the question. ]

[chandrila]

I always had voices pushed into my mind. In that sense, yes. Hardly ever alone.

[aurebesh]

That's not what I meant.

[chandrila]

I'm not alone now.

[aurebesh]

[ space voodoo is probably a thing on at least one planet in the galaxy. rey really needs to get with space voodoo. ]

You have never been alone!

[chandrila]

[ really, is this what the resistance think it's like, being among the first order? a stormtrooper party every other night? silent knights of ren disco?

there's a mixture of amusement and curiosity. try telling rey she's wrong. ]

You sound sure.

[aurebesh]

[ she'd like to go to a disco, if she knew what they were. her stubbornness is not for the first order's sake, though. ]

You had a family. A real one.