Target
When he kills Snoke, the cruelty of it—crueler than its quickness—is that it means he could have done it all along.
River
Once he stood at the shoreline, but the water would not wait.
Horizon
When he flies—spinning, striking, halfway to freedom—he tries to forget that it was his father who taught him.
Energy
He tugs off his glove, and reaches out (he has never needed anything so much).
Stand
His uncle has changed, but not the way he wanted him too: this is still a stare-down, and there remains a battlefield between them.
Story
She came to him in dreams, as though she could not stop herself, and sometimes her eyes were still shut (it was then that he spoke to her as a stranger, and told her nothing but simpler truths).
Hero
Rey's hand is the first to touch him kindly—since Han's.
Leaves
His uncle used to tell him of a tree that grew and never died, but only because it was never truly alive in the first place.
Collect
The dice dangle in his palm like living things, and fade like something else entirely.
Vision
He longs for her anger—even for her absolution—for anything but the farewell written in her eyes.