It's immediate, the way her body sags with relief, the last few months and her own self-sabotaging idiocy forgotten because it's Cassian and she has always felt safe with Cassian. Which was terrifying half the time, it was Too Much and she was too used to using her trauma as a wall, so she'd built it up between the two of them when it was the last thin Cassian deserved.
Which she remembers or realizes all at once, the shame flooding across her pale expression as her eyes close again, horrified that he is here after how she treated him.
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It's immediate, the way her body sags with relief, the last few months and her own self-sabotaging idiocy forgotten because it's Cassian and she has always felt safe with Cassian. Which was terrifying half the time, it was Too Much and she was too used to using her trauma as a wall, so she'd built it up between the two of them when it was the last thin Cassian deserved.
Which she remembers or realizes all at once, the shame flooding across her pale expression as her eyes close again, horrified that he is here after how she treated him.
"You didn't have to come here."