Genre: Horror/Tragedy

Rating: T (see genre)

Summary: Rey finds Luke, but not exactly in the condition the galaxy needs him to be in...


Three more flights to go.

Two.

One.

The young scavenger stepped off the last stair, panting slightly from the exertion. She closed her eyes, just breathing for a moment, and then opened them.

And saw death.

The entire hilltop was burned away, ashes crunching under the ex-scavenger's feet as she stepped slowly around the site. It was recent, very recent - the ashes and burnt remains of one single human body were still warm. The smell of cinders and coal invaded her nose, sickening her. She crept, silent, so as not to disturb the air, to the corpse. Short and male, half-cinder pieces of rough brown cloth clinging to the flesh.

Luke.

Oh, Force.

Rey felt something fall away inside her - her hopes, her dreams, her possibilities...but it was more than that. She had been connected to the old Jedi, somehow. Deeply connected. The scavenger fell to her knees beside the dead hero.

The ashes were watered with her tears and her blood.


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