Chandrilan Nights // A Reylo AU

Chapter 7

Rose had insisted on tagging along to create a diversion while Rey climbed the palace walls to find Kylo Ren and return his lightsaber, and Rey had been grateful for that. The two scavengers had known that the palace was heavily guarded during the day, but at night there seemed to be a whole new group of guards wandering along the massive wall.

A burlier and stronger group of guards with heavy armor and deadly weapons that made Rey pray that Rose wouldn't get caught by the men.

Because other than Rey, who never got caught, Rose had had some instances where she had been in danger for stealing.

Though Rose promised she definitely would not get in trouble.

Rey's friend had brought a device with her that she had built herself with gathered pieces from the market which, according to Rose, would keep the guards occupied as long as Rey needed them to be without Rose being in danger.

And when Rose showed her gadget, which was a small silver ball, to Rey, Rey had to ask how something so tiny could create a diversion so big that would force the guards to leave their position.

Rose wiggled her eyebrows deviously and answered, "An explosion."

"You are not going to create an actual explosion, are you?" Rey asked as they sat on a nearby roof to watch the guards do their job.

Rose chuckled. "Of course not! This thing will just create a hologram and sound effects of an explosion. So it'll be an illusion. One they do not know of."

Rey smiled at that. She had no doubt that Rose would harm other people just so Rey could sneak into the palace. Rose was not that kind of person.

She was a great inventor though.

Her friend eyed Rey and then the guards in the distance. "Ready when you are," she said and waited for Rey's approval.

Rey waited for the perfect moment, the moment her instinct would let her know when to go without getting caught and when she watched the men switch positions, she felt a push that told her it was now or never.

"Now," she let Rose know and quickly slid down the roof to hide in the shadow of a nearby tree as her friend activated her gadget, causing the masked and burly guards to run towards the "explosion."

As the men tried to tend to the damage, Rey ran towards the wall, jumped and latched onto a rock before quickly climbing her way to the top, her feeling guiding her all the way until she reached her destination and could give Rose a nod to turn off the illusion so the men could return to their job.

Rey chuckled to herself as she wished she could see the faces of the guards when the explosion suddenly vanished, but she knew that if she were to come too close to the scene, she would get caught. And she never got caught. So instead, Rey jumped from the top of the wall to the nearest tree-branch and hid behind shadows from palace guards before leaping onto the next tree until she reached the courtyard where she could see and feel him.

Kylo Ren.

She watched him with her feet dangling from the branch she was sitting on as he wielded a red saber with three blades instead of one and Rey thought the weapon looked odd. She could not quite understand why there were two shorter blades on either side of the hilt instead of just one simple blade, or maybe even two blades on either side of the hilt, but the design of Kylo's weapon was not what bothered her.

What bothered her was that while Kylo was swinging and stabbing at droids, she sensed that something was different inside of him, like something was incredibly wrong.