The next morning, Jannah met them at her office. "So," she began in a leisurely fashion, leaning back in her chair with her feet propped on the edge of her desk. "Master Jedi Rey needs an ident code and Kylo Ren needs a marriage certification. I never thought I would be in a position where I could conceivably deny either."
"You won't deny them though?" Ben asked half-seriously.
"No," she laughed. "But it sure feels nice to have this kind of power for once in my life." She sat up again and pulled up the terminal to begin. "First of all, Master Rey, we need to get your ident code officially issued. Then we can proceed with the pair cert. Planet of origin?" Jannah asked.
Rey looked at Ben and frowned. "I wasn't born on Jakku, but I don't know where I was born. I could claim Naboo, but I don't know for sure if that's a good thing to do."
"Ahch-to?" Ben suggested. "Nobody would complain about that. The caretakers wouldn't even know."
"Maybe?" Rey didn't sound convinced.
"If I can make a suggestion," Jannah interjected, "Kef Bir is the best choice. I've got authority to issue as needed for Kef Bir because of the trooper relocation. If you name a planet that doesn't have official New Republic recognition, it could cause problems later on."
Rey sighed.
"What's wrong?" Ben asked, taking her hand.
"I tried to kill you on Kef Bir," she said sadly.
"Look at this place as a fresh start for both of us. It's where you walked away from the darkness. It's where Ben Solo was reborn because of you," he assured her. "It's where I got myself back-right over there." He pointed in the direction of the looming wreckage of the Death Star in the distance.
She smiled at him. "Okay. Kef Bir it is. Just like Finn's family and your friends."
Jannah made the entry. "Next, clan name or family name, whichever you want to use."
Rey frowned again. "Ben, this is too hard. I won't use my real name. Besides I doubt if my parents even went by it, and I have no clue what name they did use."
"Do you want to wait until we can find out more?" Ben asked. "We don't have to do this now. I don't want you to rush into anything you aren't ready for."
"It's not like it really matters anyway," Rey said. "I just want to be Rey Solo at the end of the day."
"So do what all of us troopers have done," Jannah suggested. "My battalion took our TZ designation and turned it into something we all liked and agreed to."
"Which is?" Rey asked.
Jannah gave Ben a sideways look before answering, "Tazaren." At Ben's raised eyebrows she added, "You'd be surprised how many clan names and personal names ended up being variations on Kylo Ren, okay? Once all this started happening and people landed here talking about how Kylo Ren got them out of the First Order, you became pretty much a hero."
Jannah gave him a smile. "I mean you were already a legend-mostly for scaring the hell out of everybody-but you never treated troopers like they were objects, not like Hux and Phasma and Parnadee and the rest of them."
Ben just stared at her in shock. How could they have such a high opinion of him? "That's not right," Ben finally said. "I'm no hero. Not by a long shot."
"You nearly died blowing up Finalizer," Jannah said. "We've all heard the story of how you made sure everybody got off before using the Force to explode the reactor."
Rey nodded. "I'd agree with that. You're a hero."
Ben shook his head. "You need a clan name," he tried to turn the conversation back on track and away from him. "How about Skywalker? I bet Luke would be proud of that."
She shook her head. "You're the Skywalker. I'll claim it through you. How long is this name going to stay with me?" she asked Jannah.
"Only long enough to get your code issued," Jannah replied. "Then we'll replace it completely if you want. When you break up with this piece of work, you can take it back."
"I'm not going to break up with him," Rey said with a laugh. "We're already permanently connected by a bond way stronger than that marriage cert."
"So pick what you want," Jannah said.
"Nobody. I'll take Nobody," she declared at last. "That's what I've already been all my life."
Ben took her by the shoulders. "Absolutely not. You aren't nobody. You've never been nobody." Then he had an idea. "When I thought I was going to have to start over after Exegol, a desk clerk asked my name. I told them Kessel. I always grew up hearing stories from my dad about the Kessel Run-which Poe and I are going to do at some point and I swear to you we will do it in eleven. We've already got it planned out. We just need a new ship-anyway, Kessel just came to me. It felt like something my dad would laugh at. It made me smile a little in a moment when everything else in my life was miserable. So pick something like that. Something that makes you smile."
"Kessel," she ran the word past herself. "I actually like that. It's like having a little of the Millennium Falcon with me always. That ship got me off Jakku and led me to Han and Chewie. Then your dad got me to the Resistance." She nodded at Jannah. "Rey Kessel," she declared firmly.
Jannah finished the ident code, scanned Rey's bio data into the system and within moments, Rey Kessel was registered as a citizen of Kef Bir and the New Republic. Somewhere out there Ben was certain his father was delighted.
"So we're done here, right?" Rey rose to her feet.
Ben looked up at her, eyes wide. "If you want to be, yes," he agreed even though his heart sank.
"Not a chance," she laughed. "Marry me, Ben Solo."
So he did.
As they walked out of Jannah's office several minutes later, Rey asked him again to repeat his full name. "I had trouble coming up with two names and you already had what six? Seven?" she asked, her arm tucked in his.
"No. Just five," he admitted sheepishly. It really wasn't fair. "I promise you the next thing we do is find out who your parents are. Then we'll come back to Jannah and give you eight names to honor everybody who loved you."
"But I keep Kessel," she replied. "I'm getting very fond of it. Now tell me all of yours again and what they mean."
"Ben for Obi-wan Kenobi, the Jedi that got Luke off Tatooine and into the Rebellion. He went by Ben, and I am glad of it because Obi-wan is a mouthful," he began. "Then Prestor for my mother's adopted father Bail Prestor Organa." An idea suddenly occurred to him. "Hey, you know that if there was still an Alderaan you'd be queen right now. Technically, I'm Viceroy."
Her eyes widened. "So I'm royalty?" she asked doubtfully.
"Only technically. There's no planet to be royalty of," he said with a sigh, suddenly aware that he had a host of unresolved issues related to that fact as well.
"And there was at least one more," she prompted after he was silent for a little too long.
"My mom added Naberrie when I was about four after she found her mother's family on Naboo," he explained. "It was my grandmother's family name. Hey, she was a queen too for a while. Amidala, I think."
"So none of your names are just yours and no one else's?" Rey asked curiously.
"Where do you think Kylo came from?" he replied. "I named myself that when I was about six because I wanted one of my names to be just mine. But I never could get anyone to call me Kylo. They all kept using Ben. To this day, I have no idea how I came up with it."
Rey stopped abruptly right in the path. "And Ren was for?"
"Ren was what the Knights of Ren called both the dark side and their leader," he replied. "What are you getting at? I don't like that look in your eyes."
"We're going back to Jannah," she said. "I have a question for her."
Ben accompanied her back to the little building. "Jannah, if Ben wanted to add a name to his ident code from Chandrila, how hard would that be?"
Ben was speechless.
"I'd just have to put in a request through the official channels. It might take a day or so, but once they sign off on it, it would only take a few minutes to make the change," Jannah answered.
Rey looked at him expectantly. "What are you waiting for?" she asked.
"For you to explain just what it is you think I need to do!" he exclaimed. "Do you really think I need to officially add Kylo Ren to my code? Have you lost your mind?"
"Not the Ren part. That didn't belong to you anyway. But you should take back Kylo," she said gently. "Ben, you aren't just a legacy. You aren't just the last Skywalker or the last of Luke's Jedi or the last Viceroy of Alderaan. You're you. Just you. And the people on this planet love you. You rescued them. They're going to name their children Kylo after you. Not Ben—Kylo."
Ben just stood there, unable to respond for a long moment. "I'll think about it," he finally replied. His obligations to the past and to ideals much bigger than him had always seemed so overwhelming, so suffocating at times. He recalled that little boy who just wanted to be Kylo and make the Kessel Run and not attend another function or hear another story. "I'll think about it," he repeated.
"Good." Rey kissed his cheek and walked with him back to the Falcon.
"Are the Solos ready to head back to Ajan Kloss?" Rose asked with a huge grin as they stepped inside.
They looked at each other and nodded. "If everyone else is ready," Rey replied. "Did Finn have enough time with his squad?"
"He's saying goodbye now," Rose said with a smile. "I think it was a good visit for them all. It gave Finn some closure."
"So he isn't coming back to visit sometime?" Ben asked.
Rose shrugged. "Maybe? Maybe not. We've been Finn's family for a while. I think he's ready to move on." She sounded optimistic about it. The idea of moving on sounded really nice.
"Ben!" Poe called to him from beneath the ship. He descended the ramp and joined the pilot who was pointing across the landing field at the TIE. "We need that."
The breath went out of Ben with a whoosh. "That's a Special Forces superiority fighter. It's a two seater."
"Just like the one I stole," Poe's voice was reverential. "Pilot and navigator stations. Just what we need for Kessel."
"Well, technically it's pilot and gunner," Ben commented as the two of them approached it. "But it looks like the guns have been removed." It hurt a little to see her teeth pulled that way.
"So what is it doing here? Rusting away?" Poe sighed, pointing at the clear lack of maintenance. "Seems like a waste. A shame. We need it. I'll be right back."
Poe was back in a matter of minutes. "Jannah said it's ours. She said if it will fly, she's happy to get rid of it," he declared joyfully. "All it does here is take up space."
Ben felt a shiver run through him—either of dread or excitement—he wasn't sure which. "It needs a test run before we trust our lives with it in deep space."
"Agreed. I'm flying," Poe declared as he headed toward the ship.
"Wait a minute," Ben complained. "You've had exactly ten minutes in one of these. Before you crashed it. And you want to fly it first?"
"I only crashed because you shot it down," Poe retorted.
"First of all, I didn't shoot at you. That time. Second of all, I'm not trying to steal your fun. I'm just saying that this ship is an unknown quantity that you're not familiar with. It could start up and then immediately begin to overheat. There would be no time to start hunting for the right controls. It just isn't safe," Ben told him, one hand on Poe's shoulder. "If you want to go up with me, take the second seat."
Poe studied him for several seconds then nodded and said, "But we better not tell Rey and Rose what we're doing until we're off the ground. They probably wouldn't like it if both of us took a test flight at the same time."
Ben frowned. "You should just stay then."
"Hell, no! Get in the ship, Ben," Poe commanded as he climbed up the access to the top hatch.
Ben slipped into the pilot's seat, feeling both deeply at home and deeply uncomfortable at the same time. There are no guns on this ship, he reminded himself. He and Poe began the pre-flight check, double checking every readout. "Hey, this seat turns!" Poe exclaimed, swiveling the rear from backward to forward facing. "I was afraid I'd get sick flying backwards."
"That's why it swivels," Ben explained. "I was part of the design change on that one. We used these things for reconnaissance as well as attack. On long trips, the swivel seat makes life so much better for the gunner."
He initialized the onboard computer. It asked for an authorization code, so he pressed his thumb to the input. "Kylo Ren authorized, top level clearance," the text read across the screen as the built-in droid beeped its welcome.
"What does top level clearance give us, Kylo?" Poe asked with only a hint of snarkiness in the use of Kylo.
"Unrestricted access to performance and navigation," Ben replied. And weapons targeting, he thought with a sigh of regret. He'd certainly used that feature in the past.
"Everything checks out on my side," Poe declared merrily. "Take us up!"
Ben engaged the lift cautiously, checking attitude and balance of thrust, tweaking compensation on the port side just a little. "I think we need to do some maintenance on the port thruster. Nothing awful."
Poe tapped him on the shoulder and pointed to a poof of dirt and leaves that tumbled to the ground on the left side of the ship. Performance immediately improved. "I think she just needs a little love, don't you, girl?" Poe actually patted the cockpit wall.
Ben rolled his eyes and increased speed, still keeping them relatively low to the ground until he finished running all the diagnostics.
"How much longer before you fly this thing and stop pushing it around the sky?" Poe asked just as the last deep diagnostic check ran to Ben's satisfaction.
Instead of answering him, Ben hit the throttle, launching them out of the atmosphere in a matter of seconds, pushing the artificial gravity to the limit of its ability to dampen the acceleration forces. He couldn't help his whoop of excitement and his huge grin as the ship performed exactly as he asked.
"That's what I'm talking about!" Poe shouted.
Ben checked the maneuverability with a few corkscrew spins, then set them into orbit around Kef Bir while Poe tested the nav system's deep space calculations. The ship's integrity seemed good and tight. "Nav looks good," Poe reported. "Kessell here we come!"
"Where are you?" Rey called to him in the Force.
"Poe kidnapped me and made me fly a TIE fighter for him," Ben answered her but spoke aloud as well for Poe's benefit.
"You what?" she sounded a little put out. "You two get back here before Jannah finds out you stole a ship!"
He informed Poe of Rey's concerns, then turned back toward the landing field.
"Aww!" Poe groaned. "Not yet! Just a few more minutes!"
"We'll have plenty of time when we get back to Ajan Kloss," Ben reminded him paternally, "if we can afford to keep this thing fueled. We've got enough to make the trip back, but not enough to just keep playing around forever."
Poe sighed. "I forget that we don't have unlimited access to fuel any more. Kinda makes me wish we were still fighting something. The ground can be so boring."
Ben completely understood. "I know. It bothers me that I sometimes miss something that was so awful."
"It's okay, buddy," Poe assured him with a pat to his shoulder. "We've got Tiny here to take care of us. But I fly home."
Ben agreed, then threw the ship into a series of barrel rolls on his approach to the field. When Poe groaned, he stated, "I had to get those out of my system since you're kicking me out of the seat." Poe laughed as he set the ship down again. "How good do you feel about flying her back to Ajan Kloss alone?" Ben asked him.
"Fine," Poe replied. "I'll stay close to the Falcon. If something happens, you and Rey will Force rescue me."
"Rey sounded pretty mad," Ben said in a leading tone. "She might just let you drift for a while."
"Then I'm counting on you to bring me in," Poe stated as he popped the hatch. "I mean, we've got plans. Kessel was your idea. Now you owe me."
Once on the ground completely, Ben stood back and let Poe take the lead of convincing the rest of the group that taking a Special Forces First Order TIE fighter back to their base at Ajan Kloss was a good idea.
"Just so you guys can indulge some childhood fantasy?" Rose asked in disbelief. "When I was little, I used to want my own tauntaun, but have I asked to go to Hoth?"
"Yes! I used to want one too!" Ben couldn't help but exclaim. "I was going to name mine Yoda." He looked up and added, "No offense, Master," into the air just in case. Then he sidled up to Rose with a grin. "We could at least go see them in the wild. Hoth is nice this time of year." Rose actually began to look interested.
"Hoth is cold this time of year," Poe declared firmly. "Hoth is cold every time of year. But we need this TIE. We do. Not just for me and Ben to play with-I mean fly."
In the end, they left the TIE with Jannah to save fuel, but made firm plans for their upcoming attempt at the Kessel Run. "We will be back in a week and a half, okay?" Poe told her for the third time. "Don't let anybody near our ship."
Jannah rolled her eyes at him. "Just go. Go home!" she declared, physically pushing Poe up the ramp of the Falcon. "Nobody is going to hurt your precious TIE fighter."
The return trip to Ajan Kloss should have taken longer than Poe's shortcut, but since the shortcut turned out to be a disaster, they made much better time traversing the primary travel lanes. Once they hit hyperspace, everyone regrouped in the lounge area, Poe and Finn squaring off against each other at the game table while Rey, Ben, and Rose relaxed on the large sofa that circled the opposite wall.
Rose and Ben talked tauntauns while Rey listened, completely fascinated by the concept of an entire planet of ice. "We'll go there," Ben assured her. "I've never been either. I've only heard stories. But it's cold. Like really dangerously cold."
Finn and Poe argued over a rule, finally turning to Ben for a decision. "I'm with Finn on this one," Ben stated.
"TIE buddy! No! You have to agree with me!" Poe pleaded then groaned as Finn triumphantly made his move, sending several of Poe's game pieces holographically flying.
Finn laughed and gave Ben a big grin. Then he turned thoughtful. "It's so crazy to think I'm here now with you guys doing this. My squad reminded me that it's been nearly three years since they'd seen me. When I left, they were all shooting at me. Now they were actually glad to see 's hard to believe how much everything has changed in such a short time."
"Three years ago, I was scavenging parts on Jakku, trying to earn enough to eat," Rey admitted, "and dreaming about what might be out there somewhere."
"I was just grateful to have a place for me and Paige to sleep," Rose said. "I kept busy fixing equipment, following orders, and trying not to call attention to myself."
"I was breaking equipment, disobeying orders, and constantly begging for attention," Poe said with a laugh.
"You still are." "Sounds right." "What's changed?" came the chorus around him from the rest of the group.
They laughed, then it got quiet. Expectantly quiet.
Ben took a deep breath and began, "Three years ago, I was actively trying to kill all of you." He sighed. "I probably owe you an explanation."
Rose gave him a sad smile. "You don't owe us anything. If you want to talk to us, do. But don't feel like you have to. Not now, not ever."
"I do though," he disagreed. "Because of everything I did. Because of everybody I hurt." Ben pulled his lightsaber off his side and laid it on the table in front of Rey. "I tried to kill all of you so many times I've lost count. And somehow, we're still here, sitting in the Falcon acting like family. I mean, Rey actually married me this morning, and you were all happy for us."
They looked at him expectantly but instead of getting easier, it got harder to begin. "How can you all possibly be my friend after everything I did?" Ben asked them plaintively. "And I'm so afraid … I'm so afraid to tell you what made me the person I was because if you knew one more awful thing about me you'd realize—" his voice choked in his throat "—you'd realize that you've made a huge mistake and you should have left me to die on Finalizer."
He looked around at the group, terror gripping him. "The worst thing is no matter what I do or say right now, nothing changes," Ben declared. "Everything still happened. That's why I never told anybody. Not even Rey. And it's over now so it really doesn't even matter. I'm sorry, Rey. I can't do it." He ran his hand through his hair and stood to walk away.
Finn rose as well and placed a hand on his chest to stop him. "You can do this because you have to," he declared in a very no-nonsense tone. "Because you tried to kill me with a lightsaber on Starkiller Base. Because you tortured Poe. Because I saw you stab Han through the chest. Because you threw Rey twenty feet into a tree."
Ben sat back down and clenched his fingers together to stop his hands from trembling.
"And because I know the man in front of me would have never done any of these things," Finn said gently as he put a hand on Ben's shoulder. "Whatever you used to be, you aren't now." Finn sat down again. "So talk. Get it out of your system. We're listening, not judging."
"I don't even know where to start," Ben said quietly.
"At the beginning. What's the first thing you remember?" Rose asked.
Ben took a deep breath and began again. "The nightmares. When I was little, I'd wake up screaming every night."
"I bet Han and Leia loved that," Poe commented dryly.
"You don't know the half of it. I was an awful kid," Ben continued. "Imagine having someone whispering in your ear every moment of your life that no one loved you. Then imagine how much my mom and dad really did love me. Who do you listen to? Who's right? How can you trust anyone? Or even yourself? I think that's why I'm not that good at reading people," he admitted.
"No, you're not." "Not at all." "It's okay." Rey sent assurances to him that he was fine. Their honesty encouraged him to continue.
The ship hummed around them as he laid bare the story of his childhood, his youth, his years with Luke, his transformation to Kylo Ren, the constant conflict building inside him between what was real and what was fed to him by Palpatine's dark voice inside him.
Sometimes they stopped him to ask questions. Sometimes they analyzed events and tried to figure out what kind of grand plan the Emperor had been crafting inside him. Sometimes they just sat quietly and supported him. But they listened and they didn't judge. Finally he reached the point where his mother had intervened on Kef Bir, where he'd seen his father again, where he'd thrown away Kylo Ren-or at least tried to.
Then Rey picked up the story. She told them how she'd taken his TIE to Ahch-to, hoping to just hide away. She even apologized to him and Poe for burning the Whisper, but said she wasn't to try to burn his memory. It was to help herself stay strong.
"I was so afraid of what I'd done," she admitted. "Ben, I almost killed you. While Leia was talking to you, I took advantage of that moment and stabbed you right through the chest and was glad about it." Her voice broke and he could feel the shame pouring from her.
She took both his hands in hers. "Then I realized what I'd done. It was like I'd been another person in that moment. Somebody dark and awful. I was so ashamed and so horrified. I thought you'd hate me for it. When I finally got up the courage to face Palpatine on Exegol, I really thought I was on my own. I was terrified that I wouldn't be strong enough to resist. That I'd turn into that awful monster I'd seen on Kef Bir."
She turned her face up to him, tears glistening in her eyes. "Then I felt you. You didn't hate me. You loved me and you came for me. I knew that even if I died, I wouldn't turn to the darkness because you were there with me. I knew that together we could be enough to defeat him."
"You didn't need me," Ben shook his head. "You were enough on your own, Rey. You turned all his evil back on himself somehow. You were stronger than him."
"I had a lot of help from a lot of Jedi," she admitted. "But I did need you. I kept holding on to you. I kept fighting him for you because I could feel you down there. You were so badly hurt, but you still kept trying to get back to me. I knew if I lost, you were dead and I couldn't let that happen. I couldn't let him kill you, Ben."
"So you let him kill you instead," he said sadly. "You know I would have wanted it the other way."
"What? You would have wanted to haunt me and tease me with dreams I can't remember until you fought your way back to my side through some mystical wall in the Force?" she teased.
"If I had to. But it wouldn't have taken nearly as long. I had a lot of crap to deal with before I was strong enough for you to return," he replied.
"And those people on Kef Bir and everywhere else in the galaxy would probably be dead," Finn stated. "They all seemed really happy to be alive." He clapped Ben on the shoulder. "Now that you've got that out of your system, will you please spar with me?"
"What?" Ben asked, utterly confused by the turn of conversation.
"Come on. I know you've had all kinds of moral dilemmas about not fighting me. I blame myself for part of it because of how I reacted to holding your lightsaber when we got it back," Finn began earnestly. "But I can't just spar with Rey and expect to improve like I would if I got to fight you too." He clasped his hands together in front of him in very dramatic Finn-like fashion. "So please, Ben. At least once in a while let me try to learn to kick your ass."
"Okay?" Ben replied. "But truthfully, my technique is not good. We all need to do a lot of work and a lot of study. I keep hoping maybe Ben Kenobi's Force ghost will take pity on us and give us some classical instruction. Maybe now he will."
The comms beeped to let them know they were approaching the end of their hyperspace segment, so Ben and Poe re-entered the cockpit. Ben slipped into the co-pilot's seat and began the check.
"So. You feel better now?" Poe asked as he ran through his side of the systems review.
Ben nodded. "Yeah. I do."
"Good," Poe replied. "Now we gotta start deciding just where we're going to start the run. We can't get too close to the actual spice mines or the guards will open fire on us and we don't have any guns."
"And don't want a fight," Ben added.
Poe shrugged. "Anyway we don't have any guns."
They continued their discussion until they dropped out of lightspeed into Ajan Kloss's space.
Once on the ground, Poe abandoned them to talk to the hangar boss about where to put Tiny as he kept referring to her. "She's coming here," Poe declared firmly to Ben. "We can't let her stay out there abandoned and unloved."
"Okay," Ben agreed, beginning to worry if Poe was developing an unhealthy relationship with the TIE.
"I've seen him on a tear before," Rose assured Ben as they walked back to the compound. Finn and Rey walked on ahead, discussing Finn's next step in training.
"So, you think he'll settle down after a bit?" Ben asked. "Or should we worry that he and Tiny will sign a marriage cert?"
Rose laughed. "No, he'll settle down. He's always so enthusiastic up front, but eventually it turns to work and he moves on to something else," she sounded resigned.
"I guess he does that with people too?" Ben guessed.
"Ask the women around Ajan Kloss!" Rose replied with a hearty laugh. "But he's stayed pretty tight with us. I think we really are more like family to him."
"And you're the glue that holds the family together," he concluded.
She shook her head in denial.
"No," Ben contradicted her. "You are. We all lean on you and expect you to keep us sane."
"Really?" Rose sounded doubtful.
"Tell me this. You've always been nice to me. Why?" Ben asked curiously.
Rose took a few steps with him, thinking before answering. "I never knew Kylo Ren. I never met him. I'd heard stories from everyone else, especially Rey. We became close after we all got off Crait and came here. She would talk about how awful you were and how much she hated you, but there was always this undercurrent to it that told me there was something much deeper at work."
Ben listened carefully as she continued. "The first time she showed up after Exegol, I couldn't really hear or see anything but a shadow and a quiet whisper. I think she was much stronger to Finn. But the one thing she made sure we knew over and over was that Ben Solo had come to help her. That she wouldn't have defeated Palpatine without him." She glanced up at him with a smile. "So when we finally met you in person on Nera, you weren't Kylo Ren to me at all. I met Ben Solo."
They entered the front gate. "I'm glad to see you crossed that bridge with us on the way home. I know it wasn't easy, but you needed to do it. There's still plenty of stuff for you to work on. You're not all the way there yet, but you are so much more yourself than you were when I first met you." She patted him on the arm as she turned to head into the main building. "See you at dinner!"
He glanced around the courtyard. For students with a day off, it seemed that all of them were busy doing something-meditating, trying their hand at making a rock levitate, squaring off hand to hand against a training droid, reading, writing.
Rey and Finn had taken fighting stances but side by side with a droid in front of them. Rey wrestled with trying to get the droid to move like she needed it to in order to demonstrate her point. He hesitated, then put his shoulders back and walked over, igniting his lightsaber as he did. "Need a third?" he asked.
