Prologue

Rey could not move a muscle. She just stared at the cloaked, black clad being, one hand literally forced behind her back.

Am I going to die here? On a planet far from Jakku in the middle of wherever? I cannot die. I need to see my parents again... They need me to be on Jakku... - Rey thought , as she was following the dark being with her eyes.

She could have dwelled in the darkness oozing off from this creature, but there was something else so very off about this whole situation. Like... she would know whoever is behind this mask. If she could only take one look... She could see...

A figure dawned in her mind. Maybe she saw it once on Jakku?

No. Creatures like him do not go there. That planet is far too away from... well... everything, literally.

Then where? The figure in her... memories perhaps... she did not know for sure, were also clad in black, all the time. Fancy clothes, none the less. The figure was so... sweet, endearing, loving, and lost. She cold feel it, but the face, she could not recall, nor the voice.

- You have the map – Rey could hardly get any word spoken by this mystery thing – Give it to me.

Different voice than before... - the thought came from nowhere.

What before? And like hell I will gave him anything! - Rey decided, but soon she heard a foreign swiss, and felt something hot near her neck. She tried to look to her left side, but all she could see was something vibrant red.

Damn – the girl thought.

There is light in him. I know... - Rey felt like she was going to get crazy. First the jedi, than the Force, and now, random thoughts coming from hutt knows where?

Just her luck.

Kylo could feel the strange sensation just as he saw the girl for the first time.

Like he would know her. But from where?

Definitely not from the wretched jedi-trainings, and not from his childhood either. Also not from any invaded planet, as she comes from the damned Jakku. Just a scavenger-girl. A simple scavenger girl. Jet she felt so familiar. Her eyes... So full of fear... hopelessness...

Kill her. Kill her now, for she is unworthy! - he could hear the stern voice in his head, even though he did not know, why. For what is she unworthy? Why should he kill her He didn't even know her, nor did he meet her.

Isn't she beautiful? Like an angel, trapped in the middle of everything that is rotten, still shining through...

The thought just popped out of nowhere. What the hutt?

Kylo circled around the girl.

So fragile... Like a desert rose. Why should I harm her? She has the map. She gives it to me, and then... - Kylo thought.

- You have the map. Give it to me – he said while standing a bit closer to the girl.

She smelled like water, and salty sweat. She was running until here, maybe to distract the troopers.

Kylo reached to her mind, to see, why she offered herself as distraction, and then he found it. The girl had the information about Luke Skywalker. She saw the map.

Take her with you. Take her. See her to yourself, why she is so special - there was it. That voice. Like the Force would actually urge him to do... what?

The thought, that he needs to leave her, or that they can be separated, made him feel physical pain. Why?

A trooper came up to him, and Ren gave the order to retreat. The girl has the information that the droid has. Even if the droid could reach to the Resistance, he would long have the map from this scavenger. She saw everything.

Ren made the girl unconscious with the Force, carefully catching her while she was falling. She was light weighted. Not just that. She was thin, like the drapes that hugged her.

She is smaller than before - came the thought as they were walking to Ren's ship.

Kylo couldn't place that thought either, but as he was excited about the map, he let it slide. During the take off, he looked at the girl's fragile complexion and clean face, thick lashes, now closed eyes. As frightened as she was before, now she was almost serene in her sleep.

Kylo could not put his finger on the weird feeling welling up in him, but he could feel the light inside him grow a bit, and that was something, he could not allow. His grandfather would be so enraged with him right now. Bet he did not have such problems.

This thought earned him a punch in his gut.

Feeling guilty for seeing the light...

Just his luck.