Away

Find

One of my favorite songs following the one before.

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*Ben's pov

I grasp at thoughts, memories, emotions, the whole lot trying to find out who this woman is. I inspect memory after memory, and finally somewhat get a feel for who she is. A girl orphaned by the First Order, or more specifically, one of my Nights as a test to test their loyalty, at fourteen. Murder the parents in front of the child. Sounds just like Snoke. I could see myself in the memory. In the background, torn between helping and not. There was doing things for power, but then there was just pure evil. I remember closing my eyes under the mask to not have to watch it, but sadly, the hunk of metal that sat on my head did nothing for the noise.

This woman, Savannah Shane, was actually a force sensitive person, however not near Rey or I's levels. And she truly was working with another organization, although against what she said, this far smaller and less professional group preferred the name The Defiance, merely consisting of two hundred people.

I pull back and out of her head, and drop my hand back to my side exhausted. She, unlike so many other people, isn't crying after seeing her darkest memories. I ask her how.

"I've done away with the sadness. Replaced it. With honor and the understanding that it wasn't their fault but the sith. And the satisfaction that I'm fighting the evil."

I have to say that now, although I'm no less annoyed with her, I've found respect and sympathy for Savi.

The door suddenly swings wide open and Luke and Mom storm in followed by an anxious Rey.

"Ben, you are grounded!" Mom said, angry.

"But-" Rey starts and is cut off my mom.

"No acceptations!"

Finally over the shock, I smile. "Only that? Then I'm good."

Annoyed Mom huffs. "Then tell me something that would be the most severe punishment, more than anything you've ever gotten, and that's it."

"So, you want to chop off a limb? Snoke go close to that, but the doctors just sewed me back up. Toss me into a fire for longer than." I stop and count on my fingers. "Twenty seconds. Or have me beaten to a pulp. Oh wait, I've already endured that one on several occasions." I'm furious by the end of my statement.

Mom takes a step back, gasping in horror.

"Really?" she asks, and when I nod and runs over to me, wrapping her arms around my body in a hug. "You're un-grounded."

"In my training, after Luke, to consider all my options and their consequences. It's been drilled into me not to make a move without carefully considering the outcome."

"I have to agree with Ben." Luke said. "We didn't know if we could trust her, but now we do. Plus, he is the best qualified for the job of brain digging."

"Okay, you're un-grounded." Mom mumbles and pulling back.

"So, what did you find?" Rey asks and comes to stand on the other side of Savi and takes my hand.

"She's true to her cause. I'll fill you in the other details later." I reply.

Rey immediately turns to Savi. "Okay, would you get ou-I mean excuse us?"

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