Even odds if Cassian was woken by her or if he woke himself. Either way, he heard her. I’m here.
Gasping, Cassian lay paralyzed, mind racing, body not yet fully awake. It wasn’t something that usually happened to him: he couldn’t afford it. It felt terrifying. What’s more, his limbs felt aching and exhausted, like they’d really climbed. They must have contracted to the point of pain.
With an unlocking causing another convulsion, the sleep paralysis ended. Cassian rolled out of his bunk, panting for breath, flexing and releasing all of his muscles to try to rid himself of the awful feeling.
And though she’d told him not to, he saw Jyn’s open eyes gleaming in the dark, knew she was awake and seeing all of this, and he panted, “I’m sorry. I’m sorry.”
For waking her, for this display, or for the dream of a reality where he didn’t make it.
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Gasping, Cassian lay paralyzed, mind racing, body not yet fully awake. It wasn’t something that usually happened to him: he couldn’t afford it. It felt terrifying. What’s more, his limbs felt aching and exhausted, like they’d really climbed. They must have contracted to the point of pain.
With an unlocking causing another convulsion, the sleep paralysis ended. Cassian rolled out of his bunk, panting for breath, flexing and releasing all of his muscles to try to rid himself of the awful feeling.
And though she’d told him not to, he saw Jyn’s open eyes gleaming in the dark, knew she was awake and seeing all of this, and he panted, “I’m sorry. I’m sorry.”
For waking her, for this display, or for the dream of a reality where he didn’t make it.