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!]

Comments

[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!"