[ Honestly, props to Rey for even trying to maintain a level of internal calmness.
Finn knows more than enough about how to keep a stiff upper lip, so to speak. He knows how to force himself to stay expressionless. The First Order raises soldiers: there's an expected sense of decorum, an understanding that control is everything. It isn't often he feels a need to do that now. There's not much middle ground: either his face is an open book for anyone looking at it or he's doing everything in his power to shut things down.
He's less experienced in shutting things down beneath the surface. Only really good at half-successful pushing away, finding new points of focus, trying to ignore it if he can. Things are always sharp.
She asks if it would be better to come to him, and the way his tension lightens, all but instantaneously, half answers before he does.
Seeing Rey always helps something. He can never put words to it. Just the fact that she's Rey, the fact that she exists.
And in any case, it'll give him time to figure out a better way to explain what he means by "it's happened a couple of times". ]
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Finn knows more than enough about how to keep a stiff upper lip, so to speak. He knows how to force himself to stay expressionless. The First Order raises soldiers: there's an expected sense of decorum, an understanding that control is everything. It isn't often he feels a need to do that now. There's not much middle ground: either his face is an open book for anyone looking at it or he's doing everything in his power to shut things down.
He's less experienced in shutting things down beneath the surface. Only really good at half-successful pushing away, finding new points of focus, trying to ignore it if he can. Things are always sharp.
She asks if it would be better to come to him, and the way his tension lightens, all but instantaneously, half answers before he does.
Seeing Rey always helps something. He can never put words to it. Just the fact that she's Rey, the fact that she exists.
And in any case, it'll give him time to figure out a better way to explain what he means by "it's happened a couple of times". ]
Yeah. Sure. Might be easier in person.