“I have no idea what you’re talking about. I’m completely innocent.”
There was a mischievous smile tugging at the corner of Cassian’s mouth; the man had a dry, cheeky sense of humour, but sometimes that smile didn’t quite reach his eyes. He purposefully tried to keep things light, fun, noncommittal, but over the time that she’d known him, he often seemed more and more tired, frayed around the edges, a little too-serious and too-focused on his mission. Her Companionship training meant she could easily pick out that tension, written all over him. These interludes were at least an attempt to unwind, to remember how to relax, how to be a person.
A server-droid swung by and dropped off their drinks and some water; tapped from some off-world glacier planet, he couldn’t even imagine the cost, and he took a sip while sorting through the details, considering how much was safe to say.
But all of the people involved were dead, so what did it matter anyway —
“It looked like they’d crash-landed on this jungle planet, with no way off. I happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time,” story of his life, “and they thought I looked suspicious; so they tied me up, wanted to steal my ship, but couldn’t figure out how it worked. There wasn’t enough room to take the whole crew in my ship at once, but none of them trusted each other or me enough to let me leave with some of them.”
A beat and he looked at Inara, considering. Thought experiment time: “What would you have done? Either in my place or theirs.”
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There was a mischievous smile tugging at the corner of Cassian’s mouth; the man had a dry, cheeky sense of humour, but sometimes that smile didn’t quite reach his eyes. He purposefully tried to keep things light, fun, noncommittal, but over the time that she’d known him, he often seemed more and more tired, frayed around the edges, a little too-serious and too-focused on his mission. Her Companionship training meant she could easily pick out that tension, written all over him. These interludes were at least an attempt to unwind, to remember how to relax, how to be a person.
A server-droid swung by and dropped off their drinks and some water; tapped from some off-world glacier planet, he couldn’t even imagine the cost, and he took a sip while sorting through the details, considering how much was safe to say.
But all of the people involved were dead, so what did it matter anyway —
“It looked like they’d crash-landed on this jungle planet, with no way off. I happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time,” story of his life, “and they thought I looked suspicious; so they tied me up, wanted to steal my ship, but couldn’t figure out how it worked. There wasn’t enough room to take the whole crew in my ship at once, but none of them trusted each other or me enough to let me leave with some of them.”
A beat and he looked at Inara, considering. Thought experiment time: “What would you have done? Either in my place or theirs.”