For weeks, her training with Luke is methodical. Rey wakes up every morning, runs up and down the stairs a few times, and then she and Luke work together on meditating and mastering the Force. Truthfully, it goes well. Her grounded nature means that she takes to the Force rather easily, and without any interruptions from the outside world, she's able to focus, to feel as if she has a new place to belong. Here, their food is simple and as are their living arrangements, but Rey acclimates almost too easily. Compared to the dry, hot climate of Jakku, the cool ocean air and green is refreshing and bright.
Every morning, she loves looking out over the ocean. There are times when she misses Jakku and its familiarity, and there are times where she wonders if Maz may have been wrong, if her parents are truly out there. These moments become rarer and rarer as time moves on.
It's only after a while that Luke finally asks after her friends. She says she doesn't have many. She speaks of BB-8 fondly first, as well as General Organa (somehow, she can't help but call her General Organa, even to her brother). Chewie comes next, and she mentions her time with Han, and how she had been glad to meet him. And finally—finally—she ends on Finn. Her voice swells with emotion, and she explains a few things, about how he's different, about how he had never been one to give in to his conditioning, about ...
And then she realizes: he may also be sensitive to the Force, but less inclined to access it as easily. For how grounded she is, Finn is the opposite. He is air to her earth in a sense, and that's never a bad thing. Luke takes her hand, and when they commune, they both realize that her revelation is true. But it's not one they can act upon, not yet.
More time passes, and even more, and then one day she's returning on an X-Wing. Luke lets her pilot while he sits in the gunner seat, and when they land, she climbs out carefully. After being gone for nearly fifteen years, it's time for Luke to return to his sister and offer his apologies. He's been gone too long, and he knows it's allowed the Dark Side to take advantage of the imbalance of the galaxy once more.
As for her, she has a pair of lightsabers clipped to her belt. She strides inside, allowing the Force to guide her, and when she finds him sitting and looking over a monitor, happy and well, she comes to stand alongside him. It's Finn, and seeing him fills her with relief. He should have been the first friend she mentioned, but ending on him seemed proper. It was the right thing to do.]
I have a gift for you, [she says, and she can barely hide the excitement in her voice. In fact, she's obviously holding it in.] I know last time it didn't go well for you, but I thought—well—[She rolls her shoulders forward amiably before she reaches down for the saber to carefully unhook it and then—naturally—extend it to him.]
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For weeks, her training with Luke is methodical. Rey wakes up every morning, runs up and down the stairs a few times, and then she and Luke work together on meditating and mastering the Force. Truthfully, it goes well. Her grounded nature means that she takes to the Force rather easily, and without any interruptions from the outside world, she's able to focus, to feel as if she has a new place to belong. Here, their food is simple and as are their living arrangements, but Rey acclimates almost too easily. Compared to the dry, hot climate of Jakku, the cool ocean air and green is refreshing and bright.
Every morning, she loves looking out over the ocean. There are times when she misses Jakku and its familiarity, and there are times where she wonders if Maz may have been wrong, if her parents are truly out there. These moments become rarer and rarer as time moves on.
It's only after a while that Luke finally asks after her friends. She says she doesn't have many. She speaks of BB-8 fondly first, as well as General Organa (somehow, she can't help but call her General Organa, even to her brother). Chewie comes next, and she mentions her time with Han, and how she had been glad to meet him. And finally—finally—she ends on Finn. Her voice swells with emotion, and she explains a few things, about how he's different, about how he had never been one to give in to his conditioning, about ...
And then she realizes: he may also be sensitive to the Force, but less inclined to access it as easily. For how grounded she is, Finn is the opposite. He is air to her earth in a sense, and that's never a bad thing. Luke takes her hand, and when they commune, they both realize that her revelation is true. But it's not one they can act upon, not yet.
More time passes, and even more, and then one day she's returning on an X-Wing. Luke lets her pilot while he sits in the gunner seat, and when they land, she climbs out carefully. After being gone for nearly fifteen years, it's time for Luke to return to his sister and offer his apologies. He's been gone too long, and he knows it's allowed the Dark Side to take advantage of the imbalance of the galaxy once more.
As for her, she has a pair of lightsabers clipped to her belt. She strides inside, allowing the Force to guide her, and when she finds him sitting and looking over a monitor, happy and well, she comes to stand alongside him. It's Finn, and seeing him fills her with relief. He should have been the first friend she mentioned, but ending on him seemed proper. It was the right thing to do.]
I have a gift for you, [she says, and she can barely hide the excitement in her voice. In fact, she's obviously holding it in.] I know last time it didn't go well for you, but I thought—well—[She rolls her shoulders forward amiably before she reaches down for the saber to carefully unhook it and then—naturally—extend it to him.]