They wouldn't. [ she doesn't waste a moment with idle wonder, not in part because she has already thought of the scenario and she can clearly imagine k-2 reminding her in his painstaking detail that the odds on surviving the empire are not in her favor.
she's been a soldier since she was eight and saw rescued her from hiding, but as much as she hates to admit it -- and won't, not out loud, not to cassian -- putting her back into the field would be dangerous and she isn't entirely sure she can personally handle it, her bravado had become nothing more than a disguise for abject fear. nothing in her life had ever compared to the utter destruction of scarif, the memory enough to make her abruptly jerk away from cassian and rock right to her feet, pacing away a few steps and folding her arms across her chest. ]
When the Empire realizes that we survived, they'll want to make examples of us. [ the sizzle of blasters in the rain echoes in her ears, memory of krennic murdering her father's associates to make a point. she licks her lips. ] I don't particularly relish dying alone if it's all the same.
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she's been a soldier since she was eight and saw rescued her from hiding, but as much as she hates to admit it -- and won't, not out loud, not to cassian -- putting her back into the field would be dangerous and she isn't entirely sure she can personally handle it, her bravado had become nothing more than a disguise for abject fear. nothing in her life had ever compared to the utter destruction of scarif, the memory enough to make her abruptly jerk away from cassian and rock right to her feet, pacing away a few steps and folding her arms across her chest. ]
When the Empire realizes that we survived, they'll want to make examples of us. [ the sizzle of blasters in the rain echoes in her ears, memory of krennic murdering her father's associates to make a point. she licks her lips. ] I don't particularly relish dying alone if it's all the same.