Skywalker's Risen

Tatooine

Rey had spent the past few days taking every chance she could to use her lightsabers. She still hadn't gotten over the fact that she had her own lightsabers, something she'd made with the force. The blue and gold streaks would move together in a beautiful flash of color.
   Rey had been gone to the village when Ben had built his new lightsaber. She wasn't going to lie she'd been pissed as hell when she'd come back to him having built his saber without her. But when she'd found him crying as he held it in front of him, she hadn't known what to do. He'd said that he'd been scared it would turn red. And when he ignited it in front of her, it had been a dark blue. She hadn't realized he was still battling the fear of being apart of the dark side.
   Now after a few days of putting ointment on his arm, he was finally better. The energy had returned to his face as well, his eyes lit up now, and his breath didn't have that slight labor in it.
   And when Rey had looked at the remnants of Leia and Anakin's lightsaber sabers fused together, she knew where they needed to go, to settle down. Even though the idea of living the rest of her life on a planet of sand again, wasn't the most appealing idea. The selfish part of her wanted to pick a planet with oceans and forests. But she'd said that Ben's life sentencing  was exile, and she supposed living on a paradise wouldn't be considered that much of a punishment. Even though now, she hated the idea of punishing him, but she also knew Ben didn't want to go without some sort of repercussion for Kylo Ren's sins.
   And there was something else she wanted to do. Ben hadn't just used Anakin's lightsaber and replaced the crystal, he'd fused the top cap  of his mother's saber to Anakin's. And he'd taken the dice from Han Solo's ship and somehow smelted it into a button.
   Then he'd forced the remaining parts of Leia's saber back together. And with it sitting there, Rey knew she'd needed to go to Tatooine.
   It was early morning, and Ben was still asleep at camp. Rey had left him to clean herself up, she'd told him they'd be leaving today so she wanted to wash one last time.
   She'd spent the past few days cleaning out some of their clothes and trying to salvage them. And she had gotten a few tunics from the people of Dantooine.
   She got to the lakeside and began stripping herself down, and she slowly entered the lake. She went till it came up to her thighs, then she sat on her knees and began scrubbing with some sand.
   When she had finished, she pulled at the tangles in her hair until they came free. Then she took her wet hair and began braiding it back, she'd let strands of it fall, and then pick up another and braid it through and drop another strand. Once she reached the back of her head, she started the same process on the other side until it met the other strand. Once they connect she'd tied them with a hair tie.
    Once she finally felt clean, she returned to shore and she skimmed the water off her body, and then dressed. As she did, she looked down at herself, she'd lost a lot of weight, too much. Her stomach was flat and sunken in, and her arms and legs were thin and lanky. She had no meat on her, she looked the way she had on Jakku, starved. And she hated that, all those nights and days starving, wondering when she would get to eat again. She'd gotten food from the village for their trip, enough to last a few weeks, now she just hoped it was enough to put meat back onto her.
   Once her brown pants were on, her white tunic and wraps, and her brown boots, she began making her way back to the camp. Ben was up and about, he was examining Luke's ship before they left.
   As she approached him, he looked up from where he was examining the engine of the ship. He had grease smudges on his face, and his hands. "Hey, just checking to make sure everything was good for a long distance trip. Did I miss anything this morning?" He asked kindly, he closed the hood of the ship and began to descend from the ship.
   "Nothing much, just went and washed at the lake one last time before we left." She said casually as she went up to him.
   His eyes widened, "So I missed a lot." He said leaning down to kiss her. She reached up and put her arms around his neck and brought him down to her, and kissed him.
   He stroked her hair as he kissed her, and then his hands moved down her back, to her waste. And a tingle ran up her spine, and Rey's heart began beating faster and faster in her chest. She liked this, she liked this feeling. And it took all of her to pull away from it and go back to reality. When she finally did, she looked at him and sighed, "We need to leave." She said sighing, and she rubbed his neck.
   "I know." He breathed, and kissed her again.
   He pulled away from her slowly, and as he did, Rey couldn't believe it, but she actually missed him. She physically missed him, and he was standing right their, but she missed him.
   She found she had caught her breath, and forced herself to breathe again. As they moved towards Luke's ship, BB-8 was already in the ship beeping happily.
Ben climbed into the back seat first, and then Rey followed up and sat in the pilots seat. She hadn't yet shown Ben where she was going to take him, she didn't know how he'd respond. And she was determined this was where they needed to go.
She plugged in the coordinates quietly, BB-8 questioned her decision at first. But she said she was certain this is where she wanted to go, she glanced at Ben who was eying her suspiciously.
   She lifted their ship off the ground, and rose them into the air. She climbed out of the atmosphere before she took them into light-speed, stars becoming nothing but hyperspace.
   "By BB-8's calculations we should be there by the end of the day." Rey said to Ben, as she flipped some switches and transferred auto pilot to BB-8.
   Rey leaned back in her seat, and sighed. She adjusted herself to get comfortable. "So what shall we do with all this time?" Ben asked her wonderingly.
   "Well I suppose we could talk, we didn't get the greatest heart to heart last time we flew, did we?" Rey said him chuckling softly.
  "No, we didn't, understandably though." Ben said sarcastically. "So what would you like to talk about?" He asked with a sigh.
   Rey paused for a moment thoughtfully, "Tell me about life when you were a kid... before you went to train with Luke?" Rey asked him with interest.
   Ben paused now, a few more minutes passed and Rey became worried, and then he finally spoke. "I guess I never told you how I learned to pilot ships did I?" He asked her, his voice was low and reminiscent.
   "No, you haven't." Rey said lowly in return, smiling softly.
   "When I was about five years old, my mom was off planet at some diplomatic meeting of some sort. And my dad had gone with her, but it ended up running longer then expected. So my mom sent my dad home a few days early, and she'd come back after the diplomatic meetings ended. God, I remember I was so excited to see him come home." Ben said with a sigh, and paused for a moment then picked up again.
   "I remember running out to the landing platform, and my poor Governess Clara she could never keep up with me. I was always running off somewhere. And when my dad came down the ramp of the falcon, I jumped into his arms. I can't remember all the words said, only that I had missed him and when was he going to take me flying again. I was always begging him to go flying, I loved flying, and I could never seem to get him to fly fast enough." He said with a chuckle.
"Before he'd even did anything else he sat me down, turned right back around and walked up the ramp. I thought I had done something wrong and he was leaving again, but then he stopped, looked over his shoulder and said "Whatcha waiting for kid? You wanna fly or not?" Gosh I was so excited. I ran up the ramp so fast, and sprinted went to the co-pilots seat. And when my dad got there he looked at me puzzled, "Why're you sitting there?" He asked me. Then he pointed to the pilots chair, his chair. "No, kid of mine should have to ask to go flying, he should be able to hot-wire any ride he wants and take it wherever.... don't tell your mother I said that." He told me a with a chuckle. He got me his seat, and sat in the co-pilots seat, and then he instructed me step by step on how to fly the falcon.
Do you remember it Rey, the first time you flew a ship? The rush, the feeling of controlling something so powerful, so fast, it's exhilarating. I'd always loved riding in the falcon and flying with my dad, but to fly it by myself. There's nothing like it." Ben said reminiscently and happily.
"What about you Rey, when was the first time you flew by yourself?" Ben asked with interest.
Rey paused, she didn't know if she should tell that story, it wasn't a happy one. But in truth, there were few stories of happiness from her life in Jakku. But, she was in a relationship with Ben, for the first time in her life she was in a position where she had to trust someone because she could. She moved a strand of hair out of her face, then took a shaky breath and began.
"When I was about thirteen, I lived in crumby old parts shop of Unkar Plutt's on Jakku. He'd put in there cleaning and salvaging parts after my parents had given me to him. Well after working there for about six years, I'd learned how to fix anything from a micro chip to any engine. It made me his most valuable slave, so he kept me close. Every ship that landed on Jakku with an issue had me to fix their ship, and Unkar to take their money. Well one night, this gang of smugglers landed with a damaged thruster, and they were eager to get back in air. So they came to Unkars shop, an.... and they found me." Rey said and paused for a moment, this was not a memory she treasured.
Ben had gone deadly quiet too, she hesitated, but then he spoke "And what happened?" He asked, his voice low and almost a growl.
"They asked me to fix their ship, I told them I would, but they needed to talk to Unkar first. They told me they had and had already settled the bill, and he told them to take me to their ships for repairs. I, I, I remember feeling uneasy about it, but I was scared to ask Unkar about it, he'd get angry when you'd question him, and I'd felt all to well what happened when you upset him. So I went with them.
They had me fix their thrusters, and when I was crawling out, holding a wrench. That's when they grabbed me. They pulled me out and shoved me on the ramp, I remember laying on the ground looking up at a crowd of men terrified. The boss was the one who stepped forward first. I remember chattering on about how I'd fixed the thruster and promising it would work, and I'm sure I could get Unkar to give them some of their money back since it was an easy job. But, they said money wasn't what they were wanting. The boss came at me first, I tried to run away, but he just grabbed me and dragged me down by the legs...." she stopped for a second and closed her eyes.
"He came down on me, he'd grabbed my body and was trying to undo his pants, but he'd forgotten one important thing, I still had a wrench in my hand. I remember whacking him across the head with it, and he fell back, and I bolted up the ramp and shut the door. His men were so busy trying to help him up, they lost the chance to get up the ramp after me. And I ran around trying to find the pilots seat. When I found it, I had no idea what I was doing, but from all the knowledge I'd accumulated over the past six years, I was able to get it flying. I flew as far away as I could, and I'd never felt so free in my life. Moments before I'd nearly been... well... to feel that, to feel that free, unstoppable, uncatchable, un.... unable to be harmed. Oh Ben, It was one of the most amazing feelings I've ever had. That was until the ship began to shake, what those idiot bastards hadn't realized was that the thrusters weren't the only thing that was broken, the stabilizers were damaged as well. And after pushing it to fly about twelve miles, the ship gave out and I crashed in the Jakku dunes.
The belly of the ship hit the edge of a dune, and when I bounced up again, it split in half. And the front half of my ship caught on fire, when I tried to get out of the seat, I ran to the door, but the fire had already spread. And I couldn't get out, when I looked around the only escape was through the windows of the ship. But there was no way for me to break through by myself, and when I looked around that's when I found it. Hanging above me was a large staff, that had a bunch of junk hanging from it. I pulled it from the ceiling, and smashed through the pilots window with it, and crawled my way out of the sandy pit, before the ship exploded.
It was night, and it was cold on the sandy dunes. I remember staring up at the stars, and following the one that lead back to town, although I didn't want to go there. I had no where else to go, I was alone, and I'd been Unkar's slave so long I didn't know who else to go to. Although I'd taken care of myself all those years, he was the only person I knew, the only person I knew I could get food from. But the fear of going back and finding those men, scared me more of not eating.
I walked a couple miles of course then, until I stumbled upon and old AT-AT, I was freezing and exhausted. So I crawled inside it, I found some open sheets, and mats and curled up into a ball and went to sleep.
When I woke up, I was starving and thirsty. But I was still terrified to go back to to town, so I decided to try and find food by myself. That's when I began scavenging, I spent hours walking around looking for food. And I ended up coming across an old junkyard of broken ships in the wastelands I'd Jakku, all these ships had crashed around an old lake. I didn't think much of it at the time, I was so thirsty, I just ran down and drank till I was full. That's when a bunch of tentacles lurched out and tried to grab me, I had to fight it off by whacking it with my staff and then I ran away.
What I hadn't known was that old junkyard was called the Ship Water Graves of Jakku, and no one dared to go there because of the creature that lived in the water. Anything that flew over the lake was dragged down by the tentacles of the monster, and crashed onto the sand.
But in my desperation for water, I learned that all it took was a few stones thrown far enough into the water. The creature would spend all its time on that side and never notice the distraction on the waters edge.
I found food in the form of bugs, but it wasn't enough, after about two weeks I was starving. I can't remember how much weight I'd lost, but I remember going "So this is what my skeleton looks like?" At that point my desire to eat won over my fear.
I went back to town, it only took me a couple of hours to get there. And when I did, I found the men had left a few days after my disappearance. Unkar wasn't happy at the loss of his best mechanic, but he'd replaced me as easily as he'd lost me. When I got there he hesitantly gave me a quarter portion of rations, and said I owed him for two weeks worth of lost work. But I told him I wouldn't go back to being a mechanic, I'd do any other job, but that.
So he sent me to scavenge for him, in a month I became his best scavenger. I knew what parts were most valuable, and I would go where others would not.
It took me a while to get the weight back on my body, months of scavenging, for barely any portions of food. But it wasn't long until I scavenged enough to repair a speeder, which made my life a thousand times easier. And it was the closest to flying I got for a long time." Rey said sighing as she remembered flying across on her speeder, it was the greatest joy she had on Jakku.
   Ben was quiet for a long time, "How long were you Unkar's slave for?" He asked lowly, and even though he was trying to hide it, Rey could hear the simmering anger.
   "It took me three more years after becoming a scavenger to earn my freedom from Unkar. I was almost eighteen, after that my portion sizes increased since I wasn't having to pay for my freedom." Rey said softly as she remembered the excitement of knowing she could leave if she wanted.
   And then her stomach dropped, she'd worked so hard to earn her freedom for nothing. She stayed on Jakku for two more years for nothing, why had she been so convinced someone was coming for her?
   "What's wrong?" Ben asked suddenly, with concern.
   "I was just thinking, why did I stay on Jakku for so long? I could've left when I was seventeen, gone anywhere in the galaxy, learned to of done anything, everything. And yet I stayed, for a Phantom? For a hope that someone who could never come would. Even if my parents hadn't of died, for them to of left me for so long, why did I stay? Why did I hold on to some fragile belief they were coming for me?" She asked tearfully, her voice cracking, at the realization of years wasted.
   There was a pause, as she choked back a small sob. Then Ben spoke, his voice low and soft, full of comfort. "Because that's not who you are. Rey you're loving and you're loyal, you hold true what you stand in and you don't falter easily. And that's one of things that makes you who you are. If you weren't loyal to what you believe in, you wouldn't of saved me, but you knew you could. Even after everything I did to you, the hunting you down, the haunting you, and the battles. You always believed you could save me, and we wouldn't be here if you hadn't. Your faith is a large part of what makes you who you are Rey, and it's one of the reasons I adore you." He said lovingly.
   She looked over her shoulder towards him. She found him looking at her, he looked at her through the small hole between their seats and the cockpit window.
   She smiled at him, "I love you Ben Solo." She said faintly.
   "I know, Rey." He said smirking at her adoringly.
   She turned back around and readjusted herself to get comfortable, "Tell me another story Ben?" She asked him warmly, as she resettled into her seat.
   They talked for hours upon hours, telling story after story of their life. Some funny, some sad, some happy. They poured out of each other like water from from a waterfall. Each story bonding them closer together. They would talk about anything except when Ben left and became Kylo Ren, and any story other then when Rey would encountered Kylo or talk about him with Poe and Finn.
There were few stories that Rey had that were truly happy ones or funny. But the one that probably made both her and Ben laugh the hardest was the first time she went swimming. She'd been with Poe, Finn and Rose at the resistance base on Ajan Kloss.
   She'd seen lakes before, and heard the rare drips of rain. But she'd never been taught how to swim, there's never been a need for it on Jakku.
   Poe, Finn, and Rose had raced into the lake on Ajan Kloss. While Rey had stayed on the shore line soaking in the kneed deep water. It wasn't till Poe and Finn and snuck up on her, grabbed her and dragged her up a hill and thrown her in, that they found out she couldn't swim. When they'd realized she hadn't been joking with them about not being able to swim, as she began to drown, did they jump in and pull her to shore. The funniest part of the story wasn't her near drowning experience, it had been when Rose had proceeded to chase Poe and Finn with a stick, whacking them on the back and legs as she screamed curse words at them.
   "Ben! It was the funniest thing I've ever seen, you see this short woman chasing around two full grown men whacking them with sticks. I remember trying to breathe I was laughing so hard." Rey exclaimed through tears as she finished telling the story.
   She began laughing again, and kept laughing at the memory of Rose chasing the boys around with her giant stick. She finally began to stop laughing, she took a shuddering breath, and stilled but suddenly began to giggle again. She remembered Rose grabbing a pebble and chucking it at Poe's head. She remember Poe turning and yelling "What the hell Rose! We didn't realize she couldn't swim! You don't have to hit me in the head!!!" He'd yelled, and Rose countered with "Oh don't act like that hurt! It's not like there's anything valuable in the head of yours to get hurt anyway!!!" Rose had screamed.
   At that memory, Rey started laughing again, and as she did Ben started laughing at her laughing. They spent the next few minutes just laughing and gasping for air. When they finally were able to stop, Rey exhaled slowly. She hadn't laughed like that in a long time.
   They talked more, and exchanged more stories, and it wasn't until BB-8 beeped that they were ten minutes from their destination did they even realize it had been nearly seven hours since they'd left Dantooine.
   "We're about to pull out from light-speed." Rey instructed Ben after a few minutes had passed. She restrapped herself in, as she prepared to leave hyperspace.
   As they came out, the ship stilled above the golden brown planet, as two golden yellow suns spiraled around the planet. Rey glanced over her shoulder, and saw Ben peering out over her seat. His mouth had come open as he stared at the planet.
   "You've brought me to Tatooine." He whispered, "To the home planet of Anakin and Luke."
   "I told you that we were going to go somewhere, where you could live out the rest of the days in some form of exile, to account for the wrongs of Kylo Ren. And as much as I would love to do it on a planet with green grasses, forests, rivers, mountains and oceans. I know you'd never be happy feeling like you weren't paying in some way for the sins of Kylo. And because I think... there is something else we're supposed to do." She said softly, as she began to take the ship down. Following the map to the location she'd plugged in.
   She took the ship down into the atmosphere, the sandy dunes became clearer as they neared the surface. They flew over a city, and the occasional green oasis. A few vast lakes, but mostly dessert, so much dessert. Just like on Jakku.
   It was another hour until they reached their destination. Rey took them down, by the remains of old sand stone houses. "It's them." Ben said softly as they climbed out of Luke's ship.
   Ben slowly walked towards the huts, as Rey looked at their surroundings. Their were old parts from long broken machines, and the huts seemed in good enough condition, but sand from the storms had blown in and filled most of them up.
   Rey found a large sheet of metal, from an old piece of machinery, she assumed was a crop droid. She dragged it over to where Ben was standing. Their was a large pit, that had been filled with sand, it descended down from them like a hill slope. On the other side, there were hallways entering into the underground levels of the huts.
   Rey set the sheet of metal down and hopped on, she patted behind her, motioning for Ben to sit. He raised and eyebrow, but obliged. Rey pushes them off and they slid down the sand slope.
   She stood up, and helped Ben stand up as well. "Well, we better start cleaning this place up, try and get it somewhat cable to live in." Rey said with her hands on her hips, as she looked around at the pile of sand.
   "Live here?" Ben asked, looking around.
   "Yes, this used to be where Luke and his aunt and uncle lived. It's obviously abandoned, and if we're going to stay here, we need somewhere to live obviously." She said, as she made her way towards the tunnel on the very right.
   "Let's see if there is anything worth salvaging first, then we can start by cleaning the upper huts. They'll be the easiest to set up camp with, while this might take us a few weeks. I'll take this tunnel, and you take the left." Rey instructed as she walked into the dark tunnel.
   She pulled out her small blue saber, and ignited it. The tunnel was long, and had been filled with some sand, but as she walked, the sand grew lower. And the tunnel opened into a large room filled with old parts, and an old oil pit. When she examined the parts, she found many of them to be droid parts. So this is where they brought the crop droids for repair.
   She remembered hearing something about Luke being raised on a crop farm from Leia. This room would've been a gold mine for her if she was still in Jakku.
   She looked around, there wasn't anything she could use right now though to help repair this place. And there wasn't anything to help set up camp with. She turned around, and headed back out. Ben wasn't out of searching his tunnel yet, but she decided to go search the upper levels, while she waited.
    She climbed up the sand slope, and as she came out of the pit. She found an old woman passing by.
   Rey paused, and the woman turned towards her. She was scrawny with long gray hair that had been tied back in a bun. "Who're you? No one had lived here in a long time." The old woman questioned her suspiciously.
   Rey felt a sudden pull at her body, she looked to her right and saw them standing a few yards away. She caught her breath, so this is why she felt they'd been called her. As she looked back towards the woman, she was about to say her name was just Rey, when a warm feeling crawled over her body. She smiled at the woman, "Skywalker, my name is Rey Skywalker." She said confidently.
   "What about him?" The woman said, gesturing behind her.
   Rey looked over her shoulder, Ben was approaching her, his hands full of old blankets. Then he paused behind her and looked to the right as well, he stared for a minute. Then turned back as well, a faint smile on his face. "I'm her husband, Ben Skywalker." He said to the old woman.
   She fought to keep her eyes from widening in surprise, then turned back to the old woman. "I'm Karma Rival, I work in the town. Nice to meet you two." She said, as she continued on her way.
Rey waited a moment until Karma was out of earshot, then she turned back to Ben. He'd come up behind her, "So... I'm your wife now?" She asked with a slight smirk.
Ben who'd had a slight smile on his face, had become serious again. Although it was serious, he had a determined look in his eyes. Rey became worried, "What's wrong?" She asked concerned.
Ben took a breath, and then glanced back to the side. Rey looked over, watching the glossy bodies of Luke and Leia shudder slightly. Then she looked back at Ben, but he was now looking at the sky.
"You know how I told you I'd be willing to spend the rest of my life with you, no matter how short?" He said softly, his tone slightly nervous.
   "Yes, and I asked if you were asking me to marry you, and you said basically yes. And then we started kissing, and...." Rey stopped for a second, and thought. "Were you being serious?" She asked nervously.
"No, and yes." He said, he still wouldn't make eye contact with her.
"I meant what I said about spending the rest of my life at you, but at the moment I wasn't asking you to marry me. And then I realized something." He said it quietly as he slowly looked down at her.
"I already told you I love you, and I'm willing to spend the rest of my life with you. But you've had to many people walk out of your life, and you've been alone for to long. And I don't want you to think that I'll ever leave you. I want to be bonded to you more than just as a dyad. I want you to be my wife." He said looking at her adoringly, "Will you be my wife?" He asked with the smallest plead in his voice.
Rey couldn't breathe, she didn't know if she remembered how to breathe. She'd wanted this growing up, she'd imagine loving someone, over and over and over again. She'd imagined having a children and a family. She'd dreamed of being loved by someone, who loved her enough to stay with her. And she loved Ben, when he told her he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her the first time, she thought she was going to die of joy. Because that's what she'd wanted, she known for a while that she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him, she wasn't even sure when she'd realized it. She just knew, like there was another string pulling her at him.
She smiled at him, and grabbed his head and pulled him down to her and kissed him. "Yes. I will be your wife." Rey said back to him, kissing him.
Ben fiddled behind his back and pulled something out, he opened his hand, inside it was a small silver ring, with a vine of silver roses engraved within it. Ben grabbed Rey's hand, and turned it over, and began to slip it onto her hand. It was simple, and it was gorgeous, Rey had never had a piece of jewelry in her life, and to her this was the closest thing to owning a planet.
"Where did you find this?" Rey asked astonished, as she rubbed her finger over the silver band.
"It was my mom's." Ben said softly, still holding her hand.
Rey looked up at him shocked, "This was Leia's?" She asked, looking at the ring with greater amazement.
"When I was little, I used to sit in my mom's lap and play with the ring on her finger. She wore her wedding ring, but she always wore this one too. And as I sat in her lap I'd make it spin on her finger over and over again. Well when I was eight and they sent me to begin training with Luke, I was terrified of leaving and being by myself. So my mom gave it to me to on a necklace to wear. She said I'd always have a piece of her with me, so I'd never be alone. Looking back on it, it was sort of childish and stupid. But this ring meant the world to me, and even when I became Kylo Ren, and tried to destroy everything of myself, I couldn't get rid of this. I stored it away, and refused to look at it, but it was always there." He said and took a breath.
Rey looked at Ben, and back at the ring. She didn't know if she was worthy to have such a item. It felt like when she began to carry Anakin's and Luke's saber for the first time, but so much worse, it was so much more weighty.
"Do you like it?" Ben asked a little nervous.
Rey looked back up at him, "Ben it's gorgeous! I can't believe you'd even give me something like this. I've never had anything like this before." She said with tears in her eyes.
Ben sighed with relief, and Rey grabbed and hugged him, then kissed him. They only pulled away at the sound of BB-8's beeping. They looked down at him, as he looked between them both.
"Yes, we're hungry." Ben said laughing, as be began to follow BB-8, "How'd you get camp set up?" He asked confused.
Rey looked down at her finger again, and then back at Ben. How'd she get here? How'd she get..... a family? She wiped away tears, and looked back towards where Luke and Leia had been.
Luke wasn't there anymore, but Leia was, and she wore the biggest smile Rey had ever seen before. And Rey swore she heard her say, "Thank You."
She nodded, and turned back to where Ben and BB-8 were walking. She cocked her head to the side, she wasn't sure how she'd ended up here, but she was so happy she had.