So very many benefits for being quick on the draw, for being quick period. Brienne has not yet thought that they were observed. Not when there is so much activity and not when her whole attention was wrapped into this moment where time, gravity and the rest of the world ceased to be.

One press of Frea's lips and the warm, strong embrace and all the unsettled, fearful flutterings in her heart stop. Brienne reaches back and holds her tight just that one perfect moment. So much to think about, so much to talk and feel through. For now it is like the sprawling issue has been wound up like yarn to be in one piece to unknot later.

And then Captain Han Solo returns.

"Captain," is how she greets him again. "All went well on your mission?"