Rey slinks around the back of another ship. She watches Kylo Ren storm towards the town, clearly intent on dragging back his prisoner. Well, he won't catch her.
Rey pulls herself up, cutting the lock off with her lightsaber. She pries the door open, staggers inside, and feels an arm wrap around her throat, holding her neck in a precarious position.
"Well," sneers one Twi'lek. At least, Rey thinks it's a Twi'lek based on the long tentacles dangling past the being's waist. "What do we have here?"
"Thief," grunts another one.
"We should bring her to the king. Prana could always use more food for his zoo," says a third. "Lock her in the-"
Rey does not know who this King Prana is, but she does know where she heard the name before, and she has no intention of being fed to a rathtar. "You will release me at once," she says, pushing her words into his mind.
The hold around her neck loosens.
"What are you doing?" yelps a blue Twi'lek, the one who suggested they give her to Prana.
"You will let me walk out this door, and you will not come after me," Rey states.
Two nod. The third blinks. "Why would I-"
"You will let me walk out this door, and you will not come after me," Rey repeats.
"I-" The Twi'lek's eyes cloud over. "I will let you walk out the door, and I will not come after you."
"Good-bye," Rey says as she leaps out the door.
"Hey, who are you?" More Twi'leks. Rey whirls around and slashes at them with her lightsaber-just close enough to terrify them as she flees.
"Get her!" A blaster shoots past her and hits another ship, engulfing it in flames. Kylo's ship.
Oh well, Rey thinks.
Screams erupt all around her, tearing the air with terror and rage. Rey chokes as another coughing spasm stymies her from fleeing. She tumbles to her knees, fingers sinking in mud as she spits up.
"There's a girl! A girl tried to-"
Get out of here! There is no way she can steal a ship now, not tonight. In another moment the mob will be on her, and Kylo Ren must certainly be on his way back to the commotion.
Rey scrambles into the forest, realizing that it's more of a swamp than a forest when she's already far enough inside that she can't see the dancing light of the flames. She grits her teeth as she yanks her leg out of the mud. She would have preferred the quicksands of Jakku. With her lungs still feeling as if they've been weighted down with lead, she doesn't know how many more steps she has in her.
The hum of a lightsaber sends terror ricocheting down her spine.
"Rey," she hears his voice call. "Rey, I know you're out here."
Do you? she wonders. Or are you just guessing? A vine smacks against her eye. Tugging at it, Rey begins to climb. Her fear fuels her energy.
"If you come back now, I won't hurt you!"
No, Rey thinks as she pulls herself up the vine. You'll just hand me over to someone who will.
The vine stirs in her hand. Rey freezes, one hand pressed against the scabby bark of the tree, the other hand clutching a vine that's slithering down her leg, wrapping around-
Rey shrieks, letting go and plummeting to the ground, splashing into a small pool. Unfortunately, she hears something else splat against the mud.
Summoning the Force, Rey thrusts the creature away from her, panting. And then the swamp is light up in a furious red, and she sees a serpent, writhing and greener than any green Rey would ever want to see, slam into Kylo.
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•LEGACY - A Reylo Story•
أدب الهواة*WRITTEN PRE-TROS, POST TLJ* When a ship crashes near the Resistance base, Finn and Poe are shocked to discover Kylo Ren. What does he want? And where is Rey? And as for Kylo, he must decide how much he can trust them with what he knows about Snoke...
