[This stuns Hux into momentary silence. He's slightly horrified to hear Rhys admit his failings, because he'd been banking on taking from Rhys' examples as a warden what to do and what no to do. He swallows tightly, thinking all this over]
I'm not...not afraid to die. It's more the anticipation of the event that has me on edge. And when I spoke to Fives, all I wanted was some assurance that if Jedao went and killed someone - most likely me, let's be clear - that I would be able to enact some measure of discipline. Because they share a room, so obviously I can't remove weapons or the like. But anything that has Jedao angry or hurt or in any way not a positive encouragement is going to have Fives up and armed and in my face.
You weren't bad at it, you know. After the first few weeks, I really started to like you.
I just don't know how to garner Jedao's more open side without something traumatic happening to either of us, and then I've got half his friends watching me to make sure I don't...
Re: 2/2
Date: 2019-07-04 03:03 am (UTC)I'm not...not afraid to die. It's more the anticipation of the event that has me on edge. And when I spoke to Fives, all I wanted was some assurance that if Jedao went and killed someone - most likely me, let's be clear - that I would be able to enact some measure of discipline. Because they share a room, so obviously I can't remove weapons or the like. But anything that has Jedao angry or hurt or in any way not a positive encouragement is going to have Fives up and armed and in my face.
You weren't bad at it, you know. After the first few weeks, I really started to like you.
I just don't know how to garner Jedao's more open side without something traumatic happening to either of us, and then I've got half his friends watching me to make sure I don't...
I don't know. It's...
I've got nothing.