[Rey]
Time stopped between one moment and the next. The Force was still there, even here where nothing and everything existed. According to the text she'd read, time and space were false concepts anyway. The Force gave meaning to both as the matrix within which all life existed. They were threads in a three-dimensional tapestry … or something like that. She'd fallen asleep about then, a few days ago, trying to keep her mind off the events on the Supremacy and somehow be the good Jedi she thought she was supposed to be.
She … wasn't a very good Jedi. She wasn't even sure she wanted to be a very good Jedi, which had a lot to do with not actually being a good one. But everyone thought she was. They even called her 'the last Jedi' which was ridiculous but she didn't want to take away people's hope. They all seemed to expect great things from her. And while she was capable of great things, being 'great', renowned, or some kind of savior wasn't what she wanted in life.
But at the moment, she was about to be all three. She could touch Kylo, faintly, through the Force. His mind still called itself Ben to her, but he was who he was regardless of label. They were linked even here, in this timeless space she was drifting in now. She knew how they'd reached here. She could see their path forward.
She knew that when they left the hangar (they had already left it), they'd be struck by a turbo laser aiming at a careening life pod (a laser which had already fired). It wasn't even an intentional strike against their ship – or rather, it wouldn't be, or hadn't been. That should have made it easier to deflect, without a life force actively guiding it. Instead, it was like an immutable law, one of the things you couldn't change, but could only change how you reacted to it.
In this case, the starship battery felt too immense to block entirely. She couldn't deflect it. There wasn't enough room to deflect the ship (and not enough time left to maneuver, plus Poe would likely resist her if he tried to interfere with his piloting). That left absorbing it, which was something she knew could be done. Theoretically. It was within Kylo's knowledge of the Force and what he knew, she knew.
But he'd never done it in a life or death situation. Even Kylo tended opted for the more reliable and known paths of stopping the bolt, skewing the aim, or bouncing the thing back with his lightsaber. She touched Ben's mind again. I need your power. I need your guidance. I need you to be with me in this. I need you.
His thoughts were sluggish to respond. She'd forgotten that for her, time was stopped. For him, it was still moving. She would have only fractions of a second after time began flowing for her. It wasn't enough for them to have a conversation, not even to ask him to stop time with her and discuss it. She cleared her mind and took what she needed.