[ this is not the first time he's borrowed her certainty. her faith. on scarif, she had believed that someone was listening. here, she believes that they can figure it out. now, as then, he finds that he believes in her more than anything else.
cassian doesn't immediately move in response to her touch at his face, but he softens palpably: in his eyes, in his expression. he isn't a child, to believe that everything will be alright because she said so, but she does make it — easier to believe. easier to keep going, to this uncertain end before them. so he raises his free hand and clasps it loosely around her wrist, without taking his eyes off her.
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cassian doesn't immediately move in response to her touch at his face, but he softens palpably: in his eyes, in his expression. he isn't a child, to believe that everything will be alright because she said so, but she does make it — easier to believe. easier to keep going, to this uncertain end before them. so he raises his free hand and clasps it loosely around her wrist, without taking his eyes off her.
and then he says, hushed, ]
Okay. Okay.