They gathered together back on their small ship, there was still a lot to talk about with the other group but Poe had agreed to supply some better guns and some explosives for now. Everyone was a little tense, the rebel group didn't seem to be very open to their suggestions, just their weapons.

"None of us like this, right?" Finn asked as soon as they were on the ship, "This isn't great."

Poe put his hands on his hips, "Yeah, I don't like their methods either but we have to do what we have to do."

"We shouldn't let the factory keep making this wine though." Finn argued, "Right?"

"I think it's more complicated than that." Rose said softly, putting her hand on his arm, "There isn't much here, we take that away from them, what's going to happen to this place? Maybe they can change it."

Maia pulled out her swiped data pad, shocking the group, "Did you steal that?" Finn demanded

"I've always had this." She pulled out the data stick.

"Is that the data stick they were asking about!" Finn nearly yelled, not believing what he was seeing.

"Why would you even think that?" Maia responded, putting the data stick in and waiting for it to load. It was twenty years old and there was a chance this wouldn't work. It took a few minutes, everyone watched with baited breath. After a long moment, data popped up on the screen. She looked at it confused, "It's nonsense."

Poe looked at it, "What is this?" He took the pad and stared at it.

Tel looked over his shoulder, "It's in our language. I can read it." Poe showed it to him, and Tel tapped a few things on the screen and everything shifted into basic. "Can't you read?" Tel asked her

She shrugged her shoulders, "A few words, I never went to school here. I can read basic."

Poe looked over the data, there were bank numbers and a very large sum of money. This was twenty years old, if that money was still there and had grown since, it would be enough money to fund the Resistance for years to come. "Do you think the man you took this from knew you did?"

Maia looked at him, clearly at a loss, "I have no way of knowing."

"Would Jak know?"

She intensified her look of 'I don't know' at him and he backed down, he was asking for too much too fast. A different file caught his eye, one labeled "Maia'na V. "We aren't sharing this with our new friends, for now."

"Is that a good idea?" Finn asked, "I don't think they would take well to any kind of betrayal."

"For now, Finn, we're just going to keep this to ourselves." He turned off the data pad and tucked it under his arm. Rey was regarding him suspiciously, but no one else seemed to notice. They all seemed to be slightly disgruntled with this decision, Maia wasn't paying attention anymore. He was getting used to people being upset with him.

"I'm going to look through this more. Tel, I think it didn't translate everything, can you help me?"

The two men went into the cockpit, Rey slipped in as well before the door closed. "What's going on?"

"We might be able to get a lot of money for the Resistance Rey, we need to look into it."

She nodded, "I get that, but what else?"

"There's nothing else."

"Do you try lying like this to Maia?"

Poe had to admit that he had never actually tried to lie to her, she knew he was going to do it before he even knew he was going to. Why hadn't she said anything this time? Rey had her hands on her hips and was giving him a stare down.

"Just give me a minute." He took the data pad out and opened the file that had what he thought was Maia's name on it. Reading over it, it was a file, clearly on Maia at the age of nine, complete with a picture of her, taken at a distance. Her golden hair was short and choppy and she was covered in red dirt. The file seemed to be official adoption papers, which he found odd. A rich man in a town like this had no need to go through any proper channels.

There was information about her he doubted even Maia knew, blood type, age, birthday, family name. At the bottom there was a note, different than the other information, Force sensitive. Someone had known she was force sensitive before Luke had found her.

Poe looked up to Tel, "What do you know about the owner of the factory?"

"He's rich, he's powerful, his family does what they want."

"That's it?"

"What else do you need to know?"

"Why would he be interested in Maia?" He showed Tel the datapad.

Tel's face had a hint of disgust as he read through the file, "I can only think of one reason a man such as Braxis V'ron would be interested in a child."

Rey shuddered and tucked herself into a corner, "What is this about?"

"This man, V'ron, he knew Maia was Force sensitive, how would he have known that?"

None of them had an answer for that. "Maia might know." Rey suggested softly. "Or-"

"Or what?"

Rey dithered for a moment before speaking, "The rebel group, there was a woman, she's Force sensitive, I could kind of sense it. Maia did too, she had to. The woman, Rika, I think, I felt her use the Force on Maia."

Fear spiked in Poe momentarily, Maia had been acting unusually quiet since they had arrived at the rebel's hideout. Could she have been influenced by this woman? He sat down in the pilots' chair and ran his hands through his hair, "Don't tell anyone, don't discuss it with Maia, none of this leaves this room."

Tel nodded but Rey looked confused, "Why are we hiding things from our friends and allies? I don't like this."

"I don't like it either Rey, but please just trust me on this. Everything will be fine."

Rey crossed her arms, "This isn't a good idea."

Someone knocked on the door, "Uh, Poe, Maia just left." Rose's voice was muffled by the door.

Poe sprang from his chair, "Delete that file." He told Tel before he opened the door. Finn and Rose were standing in the cargo bay alone, neither of them looking happy that they were being excluded from this conversation.

"She just walked out." Rose said, "We tried to get her to stay but she said she wasn't going far."

There had been something in the back of her mind since she had stepped foot on the planet. It brought her back to when she was smaller. Her childhood memories had always been blurry and she thought that coming back here might make them clearer, but they just seemed to just get darker. The Force swirled in this place, full of darkness and pain. There was something dark here and it was feeding on the sorrows of her people. She hadn't gone far, she wasn't a liar. The stars weren't as clear as the used to be, the lights of the city washed them out of the sky.

"Maia!"

It was Poe, it was always Poe. But he was different, the Force worked around him differently, it was much darker than usual. It seemed like everything on this planet was turning away from the light. She wanted to be happy to see him, but her stomach sank instead.

"Is everything okay?" He asked, putting a hand on her back. "Why did you leave the ship?"

She looked up at the stars, "The stars are speaking, they aren't happy."

Poe let out a huffing kind of chuckle and ducked his head, "I'm getting a lot of that lately. You aren't too mad at me, are you?"

"The stars say probably, yes." She gave him a side eye and saw the small soft smile on his face that she had only seen him direct towards her.

"This will be over soon and we can go back home."

"I don't like it here."

"I know." He rested his head against hers, "I know."

She let the tenseness in her shoulders relax for a moment as he held her. Poe always held the darkness at bay for her.

"I hope I'm not interrupting anything important." A voice said to the side. Poe jumped away from her, reaching for his blaster that he didn't have on him. It was Rika, she had a hood up to hide her face but Maia could sense her. "We need to talk."