Force connections

Alone again?

I flew the Tie fighter out to Crait and circled a few times before I found what I was looking for, the red scuffs from our battle all those months ago were still visible and beyond them the blasted entrance to the mine.

I skilfully piloted the fighter into the mine, landing it in the main chamber, just as the wall curved, making it almost impossible to see from the entrance. I climbed out and shivered. The day was getting late and the air here was cold. I rubbed my arms, wishing I had on more than a vest top and trousers, I didn't even have my gloves, all had been lost when myself and Rey were taken away from Devaron.  I stood for a moment looking around, a great wave of loneliness washing over me, how did Devaron seem like such a distant memory?  I was only there this morning.  My mind went to Rey then and the way her naked skin had felt against mine. Another wave of loneliness, this time so strong I felt that I might cry as it washed over me.  I balled my hands into fists and walked over to the gaping hole in the mines door.  The sky outside had turned a deep pink and if it wasn't for my depression, I would have marvelled at the sight of the deep pink sky shining on the white and red swirls of salt, but instead I sank down in the entrance.  My knees pulled up to my chest, my arms wrapped around them.  I was so hungry and thirsty.  They were two things that I had failed to consider when I chose to come to Crait.  What was I meant to survive on?  I sat for a moment contemplating my situation, how had it come to this?  Just a day or so ago I had been Supreme Leader, then a man so in love that he would turn his back on all of it and now I was nothing.  "I'm nothing" I muttered kicking at the metal door remains, one of my fists slamming down on the ground.  But I had been something when I was with her.  The way she had looked at me, the way she had desired me was more than I could have ever wished for.  So what now for me?  I couldn't stay here for long, not without supplies.  I stood slowly, heading down through the mine and climbing up into the Tie fighters cock pit.  I switched on the navigation chart and studied the surrounding area.  Where was safe? Was there anywhere that I could just disappear?  And then my mind wandered to her, to Rey.  Where was she? Would I stumble upon her on my travels?  I scolded myself then.  No. I had to leave her alone.  If Hux caught me again he wouldn't hesitate to kill me this time and anyone that was with me.  Thinking about that made me remember my arm and I glanced down at the thin line of neat stitches.  I looked back at the navigation chart, my brow furrowed, Chandrila was a possibility but tonight I knew I had to sleep.  I was exhausted.

I wandered through the silent tunnels.  It was getting very dark and I knew that soon it would be too dark to be able to move around easily.  I stopped abruptly as I recognised a side room as the room where I had picked up my fathers lucky dice and where they had left me as quickly as Rey had that day.  It seemed as good a place as any and I lay down awkwardly on the cold stone floor, closing my eyes, my arms wrapped around myself, trying to warm up.  My stomach roared and ached with hunger and my mouth was so dry that it was becoming hard to swallow.  I felt miserable.  I opened my eyes and looked around in the gloom, shivering again as I did so, I was so very cold.  I closed my eyes again and thought of Rey, her face, her smile, her beauty.   Suddenly I jerked my head up.  I was sure that I had heard a humming.  Yes there it was again,  I sat bolt upright my eyes scanning the dark and then I saw her, stood across from me.  My Rey.