[He had sensed it, in a second-hand sort of way. His link with Rey gave him the barest threads of information, but the fact that he did not pry further was no one's fault other than his own. He had made it a point to keep up his walls, to reinforce them so strongly that nothing could get in or out.
It's only recently that he's learning to peek through the cracks, and even then the process is painfully slow. Complete trust does not come easily to this man.]
(And you've implied that Rey's skills are not as honed.) ["Implied" is perhaps a nice way of putting it.]
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It's only recently that he's learning to peek through the cracks, and even then the process is painfully slow. Complete trust does not come easily to this man.]
(And you've implied that Rey's skills are not as honed.) ["Implied" is perhaps a nice way of putting it.]