[ She knows she can. It is an advantage of the brood that she had realized early on, enlightened to it by the way she reverberated alongside the jedi killer, Kylo Ren. She had asked him for something more complicated than this, asked him to wade into a newly blossomed phobia for deep water and replace herself in it. She could not do the same with Steve... their minds are not yet so tragically close to one another.
She does not understand Steve nearly as well, but they have already practiced the soft hypnosis of matching breath and heartbeat before. She lets herself fall into that rhythm, fall out of herself into the little cup of space he's made for her on his side.
She swallows, forces her hands to loosen. They clasp in her lap instead, but it's a start. One she does not acknowledge out loud. ]
This all makes me feel very small.
[ Space. Visiting other worlds. She had expected to die young and in squalor, the culture shock is of great magnitude. ]
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She does not understand Steve nearly as well, but they have already practiced the soft hypnosis of matching breath and heartbeat before. She lets herself fall into that rhythm, fall out of herself into the little cup of space he's made for her on his side.
She swallows, forces her hands to loosen. They clasp in her lap instead, but it's a start. One she does not acknowledge out loud. ]
This all makes me feel very small.
[ Space. Visiting other worlds. She had expected to die young and in squalor, the culture shock is of great magnitude. ]