[sometimes, people like this will just go away when they don't get the attention they want; that's what happens, jyn thinks, if you're lucky.
as it so happens, luck isn't on her side.
no, because he stays, lighting up a damn cigarra in front of her like he has all the time in the galaxy, tossing her a riddle that's as annoying as his stupid face. she lets the serving spoon in her hand clatter back into the bowl on the table, and turns toward the man more fully, giving him an unblinking stare.
if it's attention he wants? fine.]
So you work for [oh, fuck her, she can't remember who's been in her dreams whispering what nonsense, and who in what town has been doing the same —] whoever's in charge here, and you're coming to make a pitch for the cause. Is that it?
[she'll just get straight to the point, because somebody has to; her patience, thin as it is on a good day, is fading fast.]
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as it so happens, luck isn't on her side.
no, because he stays, lighting up a damn cigarra in front of her like he has all the time in the galaxy, tossing her a riddle that's as annoying as his stupid face. she lets the serving spoon in her hand clatter back into the bowl on the table, and turns toward the man more fully, giving him an unblinking stare.
if it's attention he wants? fine.]
So you work for [oh, fuck her, she can't remember who's been in her dreams whispering what nonsense, and who in what town has been doing the same —] whoever's in charge here, and you're coming to make a pitch for the cause. Is that it?
[she'll just get straight to the point, because somebody has to; her patience, thin as it is on a good day, is fading fast.]