Maybe I want toxic blood on my knife, [she half-mumbles, contrary for the sake of being contrary.] Might make anything I'm trying to do it with easier.
[but, regardless of anything she actually says, she's making a mental note. and notes, too, that he's already started to wipe the knife for her before he returns it. considerate — like his offer to close his eyes while she'd taken her shard out in return.
jyn won't fast forget anything like that.
before any feeling has the chance to flow in the shared space more than it has, she answers:]
Same time. That'll be faster.
[the words are hardly even out of her mouth before she's moving her bleeding finger over his shard, holding it there until a drop of blood splashes down onto it.]
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Maybe I want toxic blood on my knife, [she half-mumbles, contrary for the sake of being contrary.] Might make anything I'm trying to do it with easier.
[but, regardless of anything she actually says, she's making a mental note. and notes, too, that he's already started to wipe the knife for her before he returns it. considerate — like his offer to close his eyes while she'd taken her shard out in return.
jyn won't fast forget anything like that.
before any feeling has the chance to flow in the shared space more than it has, she answers:]
Same time. That'll be faster.
[the words are hardly even out of her mouth before she's moving her bleeding finger over his shard, holding it there until a drop of blood splashes down onto it.]