She can still count on one hand the number of times she's ever been hugged, not to mention the number of people who have hugged her, and it's still something she either blindly throws herself into with Finn or finds herself being wrapped up in by someone she feels like she's been waiting for her whole life, with Leia.
This is no different, and after a moment of rigid stillness she has to remind herself to act. One arm comes up to awkwardly pat his back, but the other wraps more securely around his shoulders so that she can press her hand to the back of his head in a gesture meant to soothe.]
I'm sorry it took this long.
[She doesn't believe whatever shade of her, whatever creature wearing her face that he met, was actually her.]
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Well.
That just happened.
She can still count on one hand the number of times she's ever been hugged, not to mention the number of people who have hugged her, and it's still something she either blindly throws herself into with Finn or finds herself being wrapped up in by someone she feels like she's been waiting for her whole life, with Leia.
This is no different, and after a moment of rigid stillness she has to remind herself to act. One arm comes up to awkwardly pat his back, but the other wraps more securely around his shoulders so that she can press her hand to the back of his head in a gesture meant to soothe.]
I'm sorry it took this long.
[She doesn't believe whatever shade of her, whatever creature wearing her face that he met, was actually her.]