She has never been thanked before, not like this. Annie is a girl who offers small comforts: a sandwich to the hungry, a pack for the lonely. The one time she ran into danger to save someone, they had all been too traumatized afterward to feel gratitude. And they'd died, anyway.

So this has her burying her face in Rey's shoulder, holding onto her like something is trying to pull them apart.

"You know I got your back," she says, but her voice is froggy and thick. And so she tries for something more honest, something that won't feel so out of place with how intense her feelings are right now. "I'll never leave you behind."