[ He shakes his head slightly, not dismissing her comment but his own theory. ]
If you were held in the same facility maybe we could make some sense of it...
[ Cassian has not been quite as honorable a thief. Although his sights do skew more toward Imperial targets, because they offer greater payouts if he can pull it off. He's not above scamming his peers to get by. Although after the Aldhani heist, that seems like even more of a waste of time.
He shakes his head again, more emphatically, at her question. ]
No. I'm not with the Rebellion. [ I'm just a tourist, and all that. His brief forays into rebellion have been half-formed and quickly crushed, like when he was a teen half-mad with grief, or wholly mercenary affairs where most of his newfound comrades wound up dead, some by his own hand or simple carelessness. It's a welter of complicated feelings. Regret and bitterness and ambivalence. He's telling the truth, but only the smallest fraction of it.
When she says she's a survivor, he nods. ]
That's what the Empire is good at. Turning everybody into a survivor all on their own.
[ This is what brings up thoughts of Nemik, and the hollow grief around his death that Cassian hasn't even begun to deal with. ]
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If you were held in the same facility maybe we could make some sense of it...
[ Cassian has not been quite as honorable a thief. Although his sights do skew more toward Imperial targets, because they offer greater payouts if he can pull it off. He's not above scamming his peers to get by. Although after the Aldhani heist, that seems like even more of a waste of time.
He shakes his head again, more emphatically, at her question. ]
No. I'm not with the Rebellion. [ I'm just a tourist, and all that. His brief forays into rebellion have been half-formed and quickly crushed, like when he was a teen half-mad with grief, or wholly mercenary affairs where most of his newfound comrades wound up dead, some by his own hand or simple carelessness. It's a welter of complicated feelings. Regret and bitterness and ambivalence. He's telling the truth, but only the smallest fraction of it.
When she says she's a survivor, he nods. ]
That's what the Empire is good at. Turning everybody into a survivor all on their own.
[ This is what brings up thoughts of Nemik, and the hollow grief around his death that Cassian hasn't even begun to deal with. ]