Dyad: The force of a new beginning.

Who is Ben Solo? P.II

The crowd pushed Ben closer and closer to Finn again and Poe tried to make everyone stop.

"I'm not going to hurt anyone, and I'll take what any of you have to say about me. You think you are smart or strong for trying to provoque me? The strongest thing you could do is proving me wrong by actually helping with anything" Ben calmly spoke, not reacting to the screams or pushes he received.

"It's fine" he told Poe so he'll stop trying to reason with the angry mob.

"I think you should go for now. Let everyone calm down" Poe said to him in a serious tone.

"If they're mad now, they'll be mad tomorrow, and everytime they want to be mad. There's no use on pushing something that either way it's coming." He reasured him and encouraged people once again to speak his opinions about him.

"This idiot is going to get himself killed" Maz whispered watching the conflict from afar.

Chewie argued beside her.

"You've heard the boy though, if you want to go and fight him or whatever, he is taking it." Maz said to him.

"He's just trying to show and figure out who he is Chewie, he's going to take it and resist just like Han woul've done it" she shook her head.

Back in Keetar Rey and Jannah had walked with the king arond the palace and the surrounding villages and the unease only seemed to grow inside Rey.

Of course, everything was pretty and she was glad that most people were doing fine, but why did it seem like they had no real urgency for her being there? Why was everyone so calm? Every time she tried bringing up their presence there the king would only elaborate on something else great about Keetar.

"Don't you think this is weird?" Rey asked Jannah as they had dinner. In Keetar people ate sitting on the floor and the places were on a very low, long table, there were at least fourthy people between the king and them, so Rey figured it would be okay for them to talk.

"What?" Jannah said swallowing her food.

"This. The walk, their calm...?" Rey gestured to the palace and the people around them, Jannah rolled her eyes.

"So they are going slower, what's your problem? Did you not like the food or something?" she joked.

Rey shook her head and sinked a little, she sighed and pushed around her food trying to feel hungry.

After much more talk and being told by the king that tomorrow he'll show them the trooper camp they were sent to bed.

Rey changed and plopped on the big bed of her bedroom. This was the biggest and nicest room she'd ever seen, and it all felt so... foreign. It was weird, she missed the small four walls of her bedroom back at the base and her low matress, the desk filled with parts and things for her to build with, D.O running around and the sound of boots going here and there every now and then.

She took a deep breath closing her eyes, trying to release her stress.

"You had a rough day?" A deep voice filled the silence and Rey covered her eyes with her arm.

"Rough would be a lie" she uncovered her eyes and rolled a little to the side to see Ben.

What? He had some bruises and she could sense his exahustion just by seeing him.

"And where did you go? How did that happen?" she leaned on her arm and reached out to touch a particularly bad bruise on his chin.

He snickered a little.