Ezra lets him go as soon as he starts pulling away, and goes to his bag to pull out a ration pack out of his dwindling supplies.

"You've survived," he says softly, as he settles on a rock and starts peeling apart packaging. "Kanan spent years doing odd jobs, doing a lot of drinking, before he could bear to touch the Force. That's how he survived until he could even begin to be ready to teach me."