Darkness At Dawn • Kylo Ren [1]

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"Your focus determines your reality."

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"You ponder." Ben whispered against Elara's ear. "Your mind is messy, I can feel it."

Elara jumped slightly in her chair, unaware that Ben was standing behind her as she flew the Interfectorem. "It's no different from the last time you checked."

Ben smirked slightly. "Last time I checked, you told me stop."

"Last time you were on Bespin helping your Uncle Lando." Her eyes stayed glued on the forestry before her. "While I was on Hoth, meditating the rebellion history and you kept interfering."

"Funny." He laughed. "Because I recall seeing nothing about the history of the rebellion, just me and you on Aquaris-"

"Ben."

"Nothing about the rebellion history were in your thoughts Elara."

"What are you trying to get at Solo?" She turned her head to face him, her cheeks a rosy red.

"Your thoughts are always of me." He grinned cockily. "Care to explain?"

Her mind wandered to the time the two went to the tropical planet Aquaris. General Leia Organa's committee of fighter pilots mysteriously went missing so Luke sent Elara and Ben to the planet to investigate. The man-made atmosphere had a magnetic tractor beam that stopped ships from leaving which Elara and Ben managed to destroy. During this time, Ben was wounded from a sting of an adonis plant and began hallucinating and saying everything that came to his mind, including how good Elara looked no matter what she was doing.

"Would you leave me alone?" She squeaked, covering her hands with her face.

"I would but you'd miss me too much."

"I always end up missing you." She stated. "Every time."

Ben's smirk faded into a gentle smile. "I know."

Elara turned her attention back to the exterior in front of her. The green forest had slowly began to turn into a musky bog. She scanned the area for a landing spot and found one near a dying tree. Elara flicked a few switches and the engines came to a dead stop. "We've arrived."

Luke peered out from the passengers units. "Remember, we come in peace." He turned to Dez and Vega. "Stay with the ship."

"But Master-" Dez complained.

"You've had plenty of action for one day Dez." Luke put his hand up to silence him.

"How come Elara gets to go?" He wined, causing Luke to hold back a glare.

"Because we are rescuing her parents, not yours laser brains." Vega scoffed.

Ben groaned. "Can we get this over with please, we have waited long enough."

"I agree with Ben." Elara spoke up.

Luke nodded as Palace walked over to the shuttle door. "See you soon if we don't get chopped up into tiny pieces by this lunatic."

"I want your podracer if you die." Dez called at Elara.

"I'm purposely not ever going to die so you will never get my precious podracer." Elara sent Dez a wink before the doors closed behind the four.

Palace, Luke, Ben and Elara began to trudge through the gungan territory, searching for Amar Gemini. Each had their own idea of what they were looking for: a separatist spy, a droid...

"I think that's it." Ben muttered, pointing at the shack in the middle of the swamp.

Elara bit her lip and looked at Ben, calming herself at his relaxed expression.