dragonwarder | (no subject)

Good.

( there is really no more that needs be said. but he doesn't leave it at that — cannot now that he's started. )

Someone like that is not deserving of mercy.

[Logically, she knows that. She feels an old ache, an urge to make excuses for him -- but like every other time, she shoves the urge away. He would not have done the same for her.]

There would be nothing to do for it even if he was.
No sense dwelling on what cannot be changed.
You will trap yourself, wondering if you could have done better, or differently.

The answer is always no.

Indeed.

( it should end here. he has accomplished what he'd hoped, and there is no reason to continue.

still: ) My father is here.

[That's. A big yikes.]

I see.
What do you need from me?

You are always welcome to stay with Rey and I, of course.
It does not need to be shared.

[She assumes Rey won't balk at her partner showing up unannounced, anyway. She seems That Way. But she assumes she is being told because he is trying to get away from him, to give him space.

It's what she would have wanted, if it were the reverse.]

Nothing yet.

( as much as he would like to say that he's calm, collected, the truth is that it's a lot more complicated than that. )

He is not a bad man.
The fear he felt was justified, and I no longer hate him for it.

( but there were wounds that ran so deep that it was difficult to imagine that they would ever heal. )

Good mothers and fathers do not abandon their children.
Not when they scream, not when they rage, not when they cry through the night.

[In case Kylo Ren forgot he was talking to the Mother of Dragons. But she is not his mother -- she isn't about to police who he forgives. But the urge to forgive is familiar, if not distant.]

If you ever change your mind, know that I will listen.

I may take you up on that.

It is the least I can offer you.

[Since she...could have almost killed him the last time he tried to help her, and everything.]

You owe me nothing.

You are welcome to that interpretation, if you desire.

[A polite, courtly way of saying "lol k".]