Empatheias Mailbox/Amulet

[lostapprentice]

[God forbid you have to deal with this absolute mess, but he has a mailbox and can be contacted through the crystals.]

Comments

[oratorical]

[If he's not shaking her off, she's not moving her hand just yet either. She'll keep it there for as long as he'll allow it.]

Then what is it about?

[lostapprentice]

[Ren sniffs, grabbing a metal piece to fit it onto the edge of the one he was working on and a different tool to make that happen. He does, however, have an expression on his face that implies Leia has asked a stupid question.]

The Force works in strange ways if left alone.

[oratorical]

[And as can be expected, Leia frowns in response, as if Ben has given a stupid answer. (Because he has).]

And what do you mean by that?

[lostapprentice]

[He brings his left hand up to scratch at his hairline, frustrated.]

Do you want a lesson on the philosophy of the universe?

[He doesn't really want to talk about that right now. He's got something concrete in his hands and he'd like to focus on that.]

Things aren't fair. That's it.

[oratorical]

I know full well that things aren't fair.

[If things were fair, Alderaan wouldn't have been destroyed, Ben wouldn't have killed Han, and Ben wouldn't have gone to the dark side in the first place. Not to mention everything else that happened in between all that, or the fact that she got to live on Alderaan in the first place, while Luke was stuck on Tatooine of all places.]

That doesn't mean I'm not allowed to express sympathy for you, and it doesn't mean that you deserved that barbaric punishment they put you through.

[lostapprentice]

[Still frustrated, he decides to put his annoyance into completing the parts for his saber, and resolves to ignore Leia as best as he can. ... after another comment.]

And I'm telling you that "what I deserve" and your sympathy mean nothing to me.

[Or put in more simple terms, since she seems to have a hard time understanding:]

I don't care.