STAR WARS: possible spoiler warning

[avali]

STAR WARS CALL OUT POST:
STEP 1: pick a muse
STEP 2: leave a comment with their name in the subject line, pictures, words or all of the above
STEP 3: profit

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[reconditioning]

[He stops, blinks past the joke, trying to figure out something that isn't exactly transparent. Looks down, then up again, dropping his hand from her side to hold up the saber still held tightly in his palm.]

--these things run on crystals?

[Seriously??? No. No way. That can't be right. It's tech, it's-- something ancient and cultivated, not something someone just pulled out of the freaking ground.]

[necessities]

Kyber crystals, [she reiterates.] It's a little more complicated than all of that, and you have to be careful about the quality of the crystal you acquire. [Rey had some theories about the lightsaber that she had come up against when she fought Kylo Ren, but she's not completely positive about it.]

There are more mechanical aspects to it. I could show you how to make one of your own in time. It's really quite simple, especially with the Force guiding you. [She hadn't had her doubts, but now that she can tap into the Force, she had felt it approving of her actions along the way.

It had been nice.]

[reconditioning]

So... [Finn starts, lifting his opposite hand to scrub thoughtfully at his cheek, effectively releasing her from his grip.] what if we got like fifty of these crystals.

Put them all together. Made some kind of super saber.

[They could wreck the First Order with it, probably. Or if not that, at least Kylo Ren and his barely-working one.]

[necessities]

[Rey pauses to consider it, but then she shakes her head. The crystal itself had been small enough, fitting almost so easily into the palm of her hand that she wondered if she might lose it before she got around to building her lightsaber.]

That wouldn't leave much room for ... not destroying things. We're meant to show compassion. [And mercy.

Even if she's stood at the edge of a cliff and wished that she could show Kylo Ren anything but that.]

[reconditioning]

Well if we don't turn it on we're not not being compassionate.

[And screw Ren. Whatever was up with that lightsaber of his, all Finn knows is that he wants something better. Bigger. Whatever it took to keep Rey safe, and the Resistance along with her.]

Just saying.

[necessities]

Well, we'd need to activate the Force in all of the crystals. [That is one catch.] What if it doesn't let us? Then again, the Sith were allowed to command the Force. I might be too hopeful about that.

[About too much power concentrated in one place.

But she could feel the Hosnian System die, even if she couldn't understand just what she had been experiencing at the time.]

[reconditioning]

[He almost argues that he was able to turn on Luke's saber without a single problem, no crystal anything required-- and so was she-- but then he remembers why they're having this conversation in the first place and figures it's...probably not relevant.]

Kylo Ren, he's Sith, right?

[Everything he'd heard about Vader and Luke-- about the Force in general-- it was all via vids approved by the First Order. He doesn't doubt there's a lot more to the story than what he actually saw.]

[necessities]

I don't know. [She can't give him absolute affirmation because Kylo Ren hasn't taken a "darth" name. Furthermore, there are the Knights of Ren, who, according to Luke, function in a completely different way than the Sith. They aren't limiting their numbers, but Rey doesn't know why.]

He's connected to the Dark side of the Force, but I think it's ... different. I don't know how. [And those types of lessons were only things she'd hear at the trading post on Jakku. She's not exactly an expert in the matter.]