Ren didn't attack again immediately.
He read the space instead, the same way he had read the corruption's signature on the way in, looking for the logic behind how Selthia moved power here, looking for the seams.
"You'll have to hit me with something considerably stronger than that," Selthia insisted. "Considerably… If you want anything to actually hurt me you need to bring something I can't simply push back with what the field is giving me."
Ren didn't respond.
He had used the attack as cover… The time it took to analyze how to reverse the flow, the time Selthia spent moving toward him, the exchange itself, all of it had been useful in a way the attack's result wasn't.
He now knew more about how to work against corruption in this space than he had known three minutes ago. He knew more about how to reverse it. He knew what to do with the crystal core to make the process of purifying corruption for Sirius clean rather than messy.
