The park- Monday afternoon

[thatwaslucky]

Rey didn't have much of anything to do today, On Jakku, that had usually meant fixing something up that she already had to sell, on the Falcon it meant helping Chewie with repairs. Always something to help be better prepared for whatever was coming. Here, apparently, that meant figuring some things out.

She had found some stones and was attempting to skip them across the water. Quite a few had sunk, because s desert-bound girl hadn't ever had reason to do this before, so there was a lot of sinking of rocks until she realized which shapes worked better. And then once she could get it to start skipping, she started trying to control where the stone skipped, frowning in concentration and flicking out her hand to try and piish it in the direction she wanted.

She wasn't perfect by any means, but to her constant surprise it was actually going better than she'd thought, and it got easier every time.


[Expecting one, but open!]

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[momslilassassin]

Ben nodded. "That was from his first lightsaber duel with Granddad. He didn't know as much as he thought he did."

[thatwaslucky]

"Does anyone ever?" she asked, honestly.

[momslilassassin]

"Not that I can give an example of, no," Ben admitted. "Most times don't end with limb loss, though."

[thatwaslucky]

"Well, I will definitely be making a point to avoid that," Rey decided.

She should probably get better with the lightsaber, too.

[momslilassassin]

"It's a basic life goal of mine, too," Ben admitted. "So far I only have a lightsaber scar along my back and that just makes me badass."

Keep telling yourself that, Ben.

[thatwaslucky]

"How'd you get that?" she asked, immediately thinking of Finn. He'd actually probably say similar.

[momslilassassin]

"A Jedi who went a little dark for a bit," Ben said. "She got better and now feels really bad about it?"

[thatwaslucky]

"...How often does that happen?"

Oh, Rey, you probably didn't want to ask that about the EU.

[momslilassassin]

"More than it should," Ben admitted, wincing.

[thatwaslucky]

"That's... worrying."

She couldn't imagine what Luke would have had to say about that.

[momslilassassin]

"Well, it's a power thing," Luke said. "The more powerful you are, the more the Dark calls to you. And we've had a lot of political instability in my lifetime, so Jedi have a lot of pain they are looking to...shunt away. The Dark promises to get rid of all that."

[thatwaslucky]

"Because of political instability?"

...She really was starting to get Luke's point.

[momslilassassin]

"Well, coup attempts, uprisings, the clone of the Emperor trying to take over, a galactic invasion of aliens who seemed immune to the Force...it's been a busy few decades," Ben said.

[thatwaslucky]

"That doesn't actually seem like a good reason," Rey frowned. "They're Jedi."

[momslilassassin]

"Well, it's not all of us," Ben said, "but any time one tilts, I was generally around. I have terrible timing."

[thatwaslucky]

"Doesn't sound like much fun for you," Rey said, glancing at him.

[momslilassassin]

"Not particularly, but it was part of being the son of the leader of the Jedi Order," Ben said. And the authors got into a major rut.

[thatwaslucky]

Rey still felt like it didn't need to be that way, even if she didn't know how it could be anything else.

"How often do they turn back?" she wondered.

[momslilassassin]

"Most of the time," Ben said, trying to be reassuring. "My cousin didn't, but the rest of them have!"