DYAD'S PROMISE: Clouded Agreements of the Most Divine

Chapter 58

Rey turned around in stunned silence her mouth hanging open as she pressed her hand to her stomach and felt her heart lurch.

It was as Luke climbed the bluff that he saw it.

"Why didn't you tell me?" he asked looking in shock and horror at her stomach.

Rey turned shell shocked and looked down to the belly she had taken pains to hide but was now obvious with how she cradled it.

Her eyes closed strained with emotion and Finn came to her. "Come, put your arm around me. You look like you have taken a real hit," he said comfortingly and noticed the blood in her hair. "You are hurt," he said and turned Rey who was dazed.

Luke surveyed her head as she passed. "Your injury is healed. How?" he asked.

Rey shook her head and closed her eyes. "We must leave. The First Order is near. We need to leave now."

Finn shook his head. "Rose has been working on it but I would not hold out hope for it to magically be fixed in the next few minutes.

Rey shook her head. "I will take care of it." resolved with her strength and with this need to getaway.

Luke and Finn both looked confused.

Boarding Rose peeked her head from below in one of the small pits.

"Hey, Oh...there are no Velusian fursnakes here so I am guessing that is not a sting," she said looking at Rey's stomach with shock.

Rey nodded. "I suppose we don't have time for all that do we," she said with a haunted expression as she did not respond to Rose's comment.

Hyper focusing on the problem she looked down and could see the mess they all had made of everything. Even Rose who normally was a genius in her own right seemed to find this overwhelming.

She had it almost linked up everything and had them working when the weight of all that had just happened hit her.

Her eyes widened and she gasped.

"He killed my mother, and my father," she whispered with a lost expression.

Finn looked at her confused. "Who did?"

Rey's eyes still lost held the gaze ahead. "I am going to kill Palpatine," she vowed. "I am going to destroy him."

Finn shook his head confused. "But Rey, isn't the guy dead?" he asked.

Her eyes blinked as she did not process his words. Memories of her mother and father flashed again in her mind.

"Incoming!" Luke shouted from the cockpit. "Are we locked and loaded yet?"

Finn looked at Rey who still seemed lost.

"Hey, Rey." He said hopeful.

She looked at him lost. "He betrayed me." a tear fell from her eye and she staggered.

"Hey Rey, I am not gonna pretend I even know what that is about, but girl...we need to get this hunk of scrap up. And you the only one that can do it," he said. "Come on Rey!" he said in the most encouraging tone. "I'm gonna need you to come back now."

She seemed to snap out of it a little and shook her head recalling the task and reassembling but they took a hit.

"Anyone working back there!" Luke asked hopeful.

Rey nodded and plugged the last thin in and snapped a new filed fuse in. Racing to the front she took to copilot with Luke.

Once clear she sat silent a moment as a wave of tears enveloped her and Luke just sat by not knowing what to do.

"I take it my nephew isn't good with words?" Luke asked.

She found the tears came all the harder at that statement. "I am such a fool." she groaned.

He shook his head. "No, the attack was a superficial one. It was for looks." He looked on the radar. "We should have been followed yet we are not. I think he loves you or cares for the child you carry."

She cradled her belly.

"Does my sister know about it?" He asked.

She nodded. "She guessed it very early. She said it a promised soul to the Galaxy. A willed child?" she muttered.

Luke smiled and glanced at her stomach. "She said that?"

Rey nodded.

Clearing his throat uncomfortably he sat straighter.

"What?" she asked now fearful of another shattering revelation.

He smiled. "It is just powerful and usually good. Usually, a soul gifted after unusually harsh time to not just bring balance but harmony to the force." he cracked his neck nervously. "But it can go wrong."

Rey felt a pang of worry. "What?"
He shrugged. "I don't know. But there were a few times It went wrong and it was more than disastrous. I don't know the history too well on it." he said dismissively. "But if my sister says it's a willed child I would believe it. But I would also be careful of dark force influences while pregnant if I were you." he cautioned.

Rey shook her head. "I am not a Jedi." her voice was broken.

The look of horror on his face was unmistakable.

She swallowed. "But I am no sith." she looked down at her saber. "I must forge my own path. I think you already know this."

He looked sad but nodded. "The scale can tip too far one way." he agreed. "Perhaps we could find a balance. "Where to now?" he asked.

She blinked and looked around. "I haven't even told you..." she sighed.

Turning he raised his brows. "What now?"

She sighed. "Not only do I have ties to Corvax, but Kylo informs me I am Palpatine's granddaughter."

Luke looked like he had just had a computation error.

"Excuse me, what?"

She nodded. "Yeah... It has kind of been a day."

"What?" he asked again, leaning over the armrest as if he had not heard her.

She snorted and found a laugh.

"Stop. It really isn't funny," she said as tears again entered her eyes as she laughed.

He nodded. "No that is bloody terrifying. I met him once years ago. You look nothing like him." he then eyed her. "But it does explain some things I sensed in you."

She shook her head. "I need to find him."

He blinked. "Why? So you two can have a reunion? so he can use a child of his line and Skywalker to groom as his own pet?" he asked. "Bad idea."

She looked serious. "I mean to kill him."

At a loss for words Luke blinked. "Uh, forgive me but Rey you are pregnant, and I know you can fight but you should not be putting a child in danger like that. Kylo would not want it. Leia I know would forbid it!" he said outright.

Rey studdered. "But she said I need to bring him home. And that there is a battle ahead."

He nodded. "Of course there is. But let's lay low till maybe you give birth?"

Swallowing hard Rey shook her head. "I will not leave my child."

Luke sighed and reached out to her shoulder. "You are not like your parents."

She felt tears again recalling them. "No, they were stronger."