His head lolls forward and his fingers go slack, and Maya has no more energy left to cry. She laughs instead, though it's a quiet, broken sound. ]
Yeah. Okay. Just this once, you can be Han.
[ He can't hear her- she knows he can't, but she says it all the same.
God, she's so tired. Her clothes are soaked with fresh blood- her own, leaking steadily from the open wound in her side, and she's ready. She's ready to just sleep.
She settles back against the wall where Peter's pinned, and she leans her good shoulder against his. Her eyes fall shut and she lets the exhaustion and the blood loss ease her slowly, steadily into the darkness.
Her thoughts are fleeting, flickering like the lights of a passing train. She has no idea how long she's out, but she feels herself smile when the cool, calm grip of nothing begins to take hold of her.
I'll catch up, Peter, she thinks, serene and somehow detached. Not even lions can tear us apart.
She goes limp, head dropping against Peter's still form, blue hair falling in dirtied curtains around her face. The ship continues its free fall, but there's no one left on board to witness it crash. ]
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His head lolls forward and his fingers go slack, and Maya has no more energy left to cry. She laughs instead, though it's a quiet, broken sound. ]
Yeah. Okay. Just this once, you can be Han.
[ He can't hear her- she knows he can't, but she says it all the same.
God, she's so tired. Her clothes are soaked with fresh blood- her own, leaking steadily from the open wound in her side, and she's ready. She's ready to just sleep.
She settles back against the wall where Peter's pinned, and she leans her good shoulder against his. Her eyes fall shut and she lets the exhaustion and the blood loss ease her slowly, steadily into the darkness.
Her thoughts are fleeting, flickering like the lights of a passing train. She has no idea how long she's out, but she feels herself smile when the cool, calm grip of nothing begins to take hold of her.
I'll catch up, Peter, she thinks, serene and somehow detached. Not even lions can tear us apart.
She goes limp, head dropping against Peter's still form, blue hair falling in dirtied curtains around her face. The ship continues its free fall, but there's no one left on board to witness it crash. ]