[This too is a different- because he reads these names and they aren't just ideas anymore. He can see their faces behind his eyelids, feels recognition within his chest because of Toko- because of what these people mean to her.
They'll be the biggest targets in there, she says. And Anakin finds his attention turning over and over on this point. Why them? That too is followed by a thought not his own. Master Byakuya could catch them up. His eyes land on the words and a tangle snags in his stomach. That's Toko too. Before he catches it, before he puts a stop to it, Anakin finds himself thinking of the end of their time in that traincar- when he could subsume the edges of himself in someone else. In her.]
If you decide you want to stay, after everything, that's okay you know.
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They'll be the biggest targets in there, she says. And Anakin finds his attention turning over and over on this point. Why them? That too is followed by a thought not his own. Master Byakuya could catch them up. His eyes land on the words and a tangle snags in his stomach. That's Toko too. Before he catches it, before he puts a stop to it, Anakin finds himself thinking of the end of their time in that traincar- when he could subsume the edges of himself in someone else. In her.]
If you decide you want to stay, after everything, that's okay you know.