Rey was a scavenger living on the junkyard planet of Jakku. Her entire life had been spent salvaging broken things and making them whole again. One day as she was searching for ship parts to trade for food, she found a wounded man dressed in black and wearing a mask. He had been left to die by his troops. When Rey finds him she doesn't know what to do, she fears that he could be dangerous, that believes she should just leave him there and let him die, let the sands burry him and the desert be his grave. Yet there is a part of her that could never simply leave someone to die no matter how dangerous they might be. There was a part of her that couldn't help but see herself in the unconscious creature, abandoned by everyone he knew, left helpless on Jakku. Would he wait a lifetime for them to come back for him, as she had waited a lifetime for her parents to come back?
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