Someday, Rey thinks, she will make him actually smile. She adds it to her mental to-do list, which includes things like fixing that leaky coolant pipe in the Falcon, and learning how to rebuild a motor engine. Something for her to work on, when she has time.
His description of the book interests her enough that she steps closer and turns to lean against the cement wall at his side, crossing one ankle over the other as she opens the book and lets it fall open to a random page.
"Gaia is the ancestral mother of all life," Rey reads aloud, knitting her brow slightly as she skims the page. Books were always kind of a rarity for her, at least books that were not instruction manuals, and soon she finds her attention pulled from the party nearly entirely.
"Life itself, personified." She lets out an amused hum and then seems to remember where they are, and her cheeks flush slightly as she closes the book and holds it back out to him. "Can I read it when you're done?"
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His description of the book interests her enough that she steps closer and turns to lean against the cement wall at his side, crossing one ankle over the other as she opens the book and lets it fall open to a random page.
"Gaia is the ancestral mother of all life," Rey reads aloud, knitting her brow slightly as she skims the page. Books were always kind of a rarity for her, at least books that were not instruction manuals, and soon she finds her attention pulled from the party nearly entirely.
"Life itself, personified." She lets out an amused hum and then seems to remember where they are, and her cheeks flush slightly as she closes the book and holds it back out to him. "Can I read it when you're done?"