[ he says by way of agreement. most things don't get better in his experience — in his galaxy or here in kenos. just worse, harder, with the relentless march of time, like the advance of so many battalions of stormtroopers. looking at gamora, he doesn't think he's telling her anything she doesn't know.
(war doesn't get better, save for one exception. bodhi bringing them a message of hope; baze, armed with his gun, and chirrut, armed with his faith; k-2so, making dire predictions of odds and yet never faltering to follow him anywhere; jyn, shining like the sun. for a moment, there was hope. before that, too, was swallowed.)
he shrugs slightly, glancing around them before looking back to gamora. ]
But this won't be forever. [ the cavern, he means. the war, of course, is a different beast; it always is. ] This isn't the only Oracle out there. The others were taken somewhere strange to fight for an Oracle a few months ago, too.
[ the underlying message: but they were back to city life as normal by the time he got here, as normal-ish by the time gamora got here. the underlying message: this is not, precisely, optimism that he's giving her. she must know that. this too will end, yes, but and then it'll start all over again. he doesn't need to spell it out for her. ]
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[ he says by way of agreement. most things don't get better in his experience — in his galaxy or here in kenos. just worse, harder, with the relentless march of time, like the advance of so many battalions of stormtroopers. looking at gamora, he doesn't think he's telling her anything she doesn't know.
(war doesn't get better, save for one exception. bodhi bringing them a message of hope; baze, armed with his gun, and chirrut, armed with his faith; k-2so, making dire predictions of odds and yet never faltering to follow him anywhere; jyn, shining like the sun. for a moment, there was hope. before that, too, was swallowed.)
he shrugs slightly, glancing around them before looking back to gamora. ]
But this won't be forever. [ the cavern, he means. the war, of course, is a different beast; it always is. ] This isn't the only Oracle out there. The others were taken somewhere strange to fight for an Oracle a few months ago, too.
[ the underlying message: but they were back to city life as normal by the time he got here, as normal-ish by the time gamora got here. the underlying message: this is not, precisely, optimism that he's giving her. she must know that. this too will end, yes, but and then it'll start all over again. he doesn't need to spell it out for her. ]