Rey felt her stoic outer resolve weakening, when she saw his distress and frustration — she'd wanted to come to him with a sense of calm, with that tranquility she'd found at the turtle's head, but Ren was so very adept at pushing her buttons.
We influence one another, she realized; as part of the bond they shared, no doubt, but also because of their recent experiences. Ren was no less susceptible to her influence than she was of his.
"Part of me is already of the Dark side, yes," she admitted. It was hard to ignore that fact, when she'd given in to it so easily already, so many times; on Starkiller, in Keeliai when she'd seen him at the Midnight Hotel, and again that fateful day she'd acquired the Lucid crystals from the Cultists. "I can't deny it; I won't run from it."
She leaned down into his personal space, hovering over his bedside, to deliver her next words more quietly although no less firm. "But you are still entrenched in the Light." Her dark eyes blazed with truth. "You know it, and I know it. You were already infected with it before you came here, you'd already felt its pull, but it's only gotten stronger.
"And both of us now are straddling that line, between the Light side and the Dark, together."
That was the bare truth of it; here in Keeliai, away from external influences — Master Luke, Supreme Leader Snoke, the Jedi and the Sith and the Resistance and the First Order — they were untethered, they were unchained. They didn't have to choose a permanent path, right or wrong.
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We influence one another, she realized; as part of the bond they shared, no doubt, but also because of their recent experiences. Ren was no less susceptible to her influence than she was of his.
"Part of me is already of the Dark side, yes," she admitted. It was hard to ignore that fact, when she'd given in to it so easily already, so many times; on Starkiller, in Keeliai when she'd seen him at the Midnight Hotel, and again that fateful day she'd acquired the Lucid crystals from the Cultists. "I can't deny it; I won't run from it."
She leaned down into his personal space, hovering over his bedside, to deliver her next words more quietly although no less firm. "But you are still entrenched in the Light." Her dark eyes blazed with truth. "You know it, and I know it. You were already infected with it before you came here, you'd already felt its pull, but it's only gotten stronger.
"And both of us now are straddling that line, between the Light side and the Dark, together."
That was the bare truth of it; here in Keeliai, away from external influences — Master Luke, Supreme Leader Snoke, the Jedi and the Sith and the Resistance and the First Order — they were untethered, they were unchained. They didn't have to choose a permanent path, right or wrong.