„My Lord", the jittery First Order officer clears his throat.
He specifically ordered them not to disturb him while he's meditating in Emperor's throne room buried deep in the catacombs.
Rey, where are you?
„Kneel before your Supreme Leader".
The man falls on his knees and makes a painful, wailing sound as he yanks against the hard floor of black marble.
He bows his head low and ceremonially, fearing another recklesness on his part will leave him suffocated. He saw his Leader performing this more than once, and not only on Hux.
„Forgive me, Supreme Leader", the man pants while the painful warmth and the numbness in his knee inform him something is broken. „But we have captured a creature..."
They have to pick who'll inform Kylo Ren about their findings – and he definitely got the shorter end of the stick both literally and proverbially. They draw sticks a lot since he became the new Supreme Leader.
Wookie, the Resistance? Jedi girl? The Falcon?
Supreme Leader stands up back again. His face is covered with a mask – again. He wears it ever since he was proclaimed the Supreme Leader. Rumors have it, he killed the late Leader himself and now wants to hide that fact on his face. Others say, his own face is mutilated after the assassination, so he can't breathe on his own anymore and similarly to Lord Vader, now has to use is to help him respirate.
„What is it, Zarkovich?"
„It is some kind of a gian reptilian creature", the officer practically yelps. „It crash landed some minutes ago on top of your palace. I believe it is called a „dragon" in some primitive cultures. Our scientists are perplexed – they used blasters on him, bombs, and the battering ram. But the creature..."
Kylo Ren came closer – the man can see his elaborate mask, a long extension (probably to contain the respirator) falls to his chest, and the place where the eyes should be glare at him like two multi-faceted insect eyes, black as polished obsidian.
„...but the creature proves impossible to kill. It scorched whole squadrons and turned to cinder TIE fighters we send to destroy him".
How long was he in his meditative state? How deep he went in? He tried to track her down by focusing on the glove the Ahch-to water has touched and the glove that retained that pure energy of hers since their hands touched in a powerful vision. But it was all in vain – she blocked herself completely from him. He could sense her presence in the Force almost to the point of pain, but she was growing stronger. And Luke's spirit was there to protect here and guide her. She mastered the art of clouding herself with the Force and it appeared to be impenetrable.
He can't allow be seen weak again – that's why he ordered this mask being re-build and re-designed, with modifications. It serves both as a crown and as a shelter against the First Order prying junta – against Hux whose eyes tend to dart on and from his face, deliberating, scrutinizing...
Both men are aware what he has done to Snoke, but neither wants to act against the other – still their interests overlap.
„Take me to that thing", Ren roars. „I'll deal with it myself".
Don't destroy this Palace, you incompetent bunch of fools.