And catch her attention he does. Not that at any point he didn't have her attention—Rey is always exceedingly aware of that intense gaze when he's looking at her—but tilting his head to put his face a small but very noticeable amount closer to her own does succeed in getting her to meet his eyes again.
Rey opens her mouth to reply to him, but she can't think of anything to actually say, so she just closes it again and swallows thickly. What is she meant to say to that, really? What do normal people say in response to things like this? Do these things even happen to normal people? Part of Rey suspects not, but it's unexpectedly hard to think clearly when staring into a pair of terribly sincere brown eyes belong to a person saying things like that in that voice with his face at most a foot away.
"Your voice sounds so nice when you say things like that."
And then she realizes what she's said, and she nearly averts her eyes again before moving them back to his. There's no point in looking away if he's just going to move so she can see him, despite her embarrassment.
"I mean—thank you. For saying it. I appreciate it."
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Rey opens her mouth to reply to him, but she can't think of anything to actually say, so she just closes it again and swallows thickly. What is she meant to say to that, really? What do normal people say in response to things like this? Do these things even happen to normal people? Part of Rey suspects not, but it's unexpectedly hard to think clearly when staring into a pair of terribly sincere brown eyes belong to a person saying things like that in that voice with his face at most a foot away.
"Your voice sounds so nice when you say things like that."
And then she realizes what she's said, and she nearly averts her eyes again before moving them back to his. There's no point in looking away if he's just going to move so she can see him, despite her embarrassment.
"I mean—thank you. For saying it. I appreciate it."