Ronan can feel how much this wasn't supposed to happen. How much he isn't meant to exist. It's the worst thing in the world, to be an unwanted dream. A failed attempt or a mistake. How agonized Ronan's own nightmares had been when he accidentally brought them into the world, how they had hated him for his cowardice and his incompetence. And how he'd hated them in return. Murdered them. Buried them. Pushed them out of his memory.

His wrongness is written into him. He yearns for the real Ronan as much as Kylo does, but also yearns to be him. It isn't as simple as resenting Kylo for creating an imperfect dream or destroying himself so that Kylo can try again. Within him remains the unfortunate tug of hope that he can still become what Kylo wants him to be.

So he waits, curled up against his dreamer, loyal and terrified.