[ emma stays on her feet (needs to, because her mind is too busy to sit, her body feeling too antsy), her fingers lacing and unlacing again. ]
I know.
[ she knows. this isn't like the first time; she can't just play this off like a fluke, can't ask him to stay, because that will inevitably result in something like before, when he'd been hauled away easy as anything.
if they know for certain he's here, then he'll never be safe. bounty hunters and warrant officers alike will show up on her doorstep, time and again, and they can't very well shoot the lot of them.
(because there's inevitably going to be someone who's faster, better, catches them off guard.
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I know.
[ she knows. this isn't like the first time; she can't just play this off like a fluke, can't ask him to stay, because that will inevitably result in something like before, when he'd been hauled away easy as anything.
if they know for certain he's here, then he'll never be safe. bounty hunters and warrant officers alike will show up on her doorstep, time and again, and they can't very well shoot the lot of them.
(because there's inevitably going to be someone who's faster, better, catches them off guard.
emma isn't willing to risk that.) ]
But I can go with you.