The sleek metallic walls of the fighter cockpit echoed as the knight of Ren cursed under his breath. He longed to slash something with his lightsaber but the surroundings were not only too small to maneuver but also vitally necessary for survival in the vacuum of space.
When he had asked for the coordinates he had wanted something a bit more specific.
The first order was, if nothing else, a bureaucracy and any request was filled to the letter but nothing more. He had asked for the coordinates and they had given him the planet. This wasn't an official mission- it was hard enough to get the cooperation he was getting. Besides, it was as close as they could get without the droid. He knew that but he still ground his teeth at the mechanical tediousness of it all. It was like searching for a particular grain of sand on a shore or in this case, searching for a single small girl on a decently sized planet.
He would have to narrow down where she was himself.
He cast his eyes lazily over the surface of the planet as it flickered on the monitors casting the dashboard in front of it with a blue glow. Lots of water, a few continental plates, islands sprinkled like freckles across the surface. It was pretty but seemingly unremarkable. Much like the girl he was trying to find on it.
She would like these islands he mused to himself, a slight smile forming reflexively. So much like her girlish little daydreams. Green islands in the sea.
Suddenly he was struck with a thought.
The island...it couldn't be. The implications of his idea left him light headed. Maybe they weren't just girlish little daydreams.
Maybe the Force had been telling her where to find Luke.
He taps at the monitor controls and zooms in on the nearest splash of islands and looks them over one by one. Most are too rocky, not nearly as green as the stolen memory he clenches in his mind. Could the Force have shown her where that old jedi was hiding before she saw the coordinates from the droid? He wondered. It was certainly possible. It made sense even. She had blossomed to the Force so easily. It practically coursed through her like blood. He had felt her strength...feared it even. He felt like an idiot. All this time he had gotten the information he had wanted from her. He had just been too stupid to realize what it was.
He scanned through more images of the surface. She was there on that island. It was only a matter of time before he found her.