Jyn stopped when he called back out to her, turning partway down the corridor. Whatever she might have expected to hear, it wasn't that. Of course, that made sense, when all of this was already beyond unexpected. Being around Cassian had always been easy — too easy, probably — but that became now another complication, another liability. She didn't know how to hold back around him, and it had never been more important for her to do so.

Grateful for the safety in the vagueness of that statement, she nodded, the motion slight but earnest. She had no idea what would happen next either. What she did know was that no matter how much easier for her it might have been if she could, she would never be able to turn him away entirely. He was too much a part of her.

"Well, someone's got to show you the ropes around here, right?" she pointed out, masking the ache in her heart with levity. It was impossible not to think that she'd never had a say, that she would never have lost him if she had, but she knew too well that wasn't what he meant. "And last time I checked, I wasn't going anywhere."