Her admission, however innocent, was not something he was prepared to examine. It felt unfair to argue, however skeptical he might have been. It seemed impossible that she might have known Ben Solo, when he hardly knew himself, but from the beginning, she'd seen something in him he thought long buried.

"That is one thing this place has going for it," he agreed wryly, his lips pressed into a thin line, as close to a smile as he was able to give her, as he took her offering.