Lacking eyelids, Kay didn't have the ability to blink in befuddlement. He did, however, manage a pretty good facsimile of it by angling his head down towards the young man, ocular diodes dimming and returning to normal brightness three times in quick succession.

It was on the tip of his metaphorical tongue to ask how he could be stationed somewhere that wasn't an Imperial-held outpost, as that was the kind of thing he could usually get away with, but the fact that Anakin had talked to him the same way Cassian did, like he was a person and not just a droid, had him stopping that question and instead just answering: "Get foisted off to fend for myself? Yes. It happens distressingly often."