Star Wars: The World Between Worlds [Episode X]

Prologue: Rey

Sand slipped its way past the cloth of my shoes, Tatooine wasn't the most lively planet I'd ever seen, the entire surface was covered in nothing but grains of sediments. This place...Master Luke once lived here. The first time I arrived here I had buried both his saber along with Master Leia's. Before I came here the Resistance had disbanded on Ajan Kloss, Poe, and Finn, my friends. I had no idea where they were now.

And Ben...Bile slightly rises in my throat as I shake myself, doing my best to clear my head of what happened within Palpatine's throne room on Exegol. I remembered losing consciousness and then suddenly waking up to him holding me. His hair was matted with sweat and dirt from being pushed back by the Emperor into a cavern that was imbedded within the ground. I still remember myself whispering his name and his firm yet gentle lips against mine. And how after our lips parted he slunked down to the earth, his body beginning to fade, leaving nothing behind except his shirt, pants and shoes.

I didn't realize till later on that he...he sacrificed himself to save me. And now? I'm nothing but alone. Fortunately I still have the Jedi Texts that Master Luke had, flipping through the pages I can barely make out the wording. It seemed like he had found information on a world, a world between worlds of some kind. But how can something like that exist? I continue to flip through the pieces of paper, not being able to translate a single thing.

Completely frustrated I close the book and rest the back of my head on the wall behind me.

"Ben... I don't know if I can do this" I whisper, my voice almost breaking as I bury my face into my knees. The events from weeks ago have weighed heavy on my shoulders. It felt like I could sense him with me but I couldn't see him. Master Luke and Leia appeared as ghosts, but he wasn't with them. I swallow a forming lump in my throat, tears begin to well up within my eyes

"I'll find you, someway, somehow. No matter how long it takes, no matter how many galaxies I must cross, I will find you Ben, I promise..." I murmur quietly as tears slip loosely and trickle down my cheeks.