The next morning, crack of dawn more like, Finn couldn't sleep-; He wandered into the center of the stronghold. Steadily the Naboo arose and began to flood the corridors. The first people he scared away because he was fiery and anxious. He worked his questions into conversation letting it come naturally,

"So that woman who save us, what's she about?"

Or

"Where does she come from?"

"How long has she been here?"

Finn listened meticulously to each word that fell out of their lips, but nothing came out that would lead anyone to assume she was malicious- in fact quite the opposite.

"Who, the Guardian? She's protected us since I've been here." one said.

"The Guardian, she's from here, least that's what I heard."

"Guardian, isn't she great?"

"She's a miracle that one."

"If you want to know more about Guardian ask her son." the last one, a young girl, said.

Finn met with Rey and Poe on the Falcon around midday.

"Did anyone else get anything other than that she's beloved by everyone here?" Finn asked hoping the two others had wriggled out some more useful information.

Rey and Poe shook their heads.

"I did get that she has a son, but no name."

Poe's head perked up,

"That boy she picked up when we arrived."

"But even he called her guardian. That's a little formal for a mother-son 't it?" Finn asked.

Rey shrugged her shoulders.

"Do we have any better ideas?" Poe asked running a frazzled hand through his dark curls.

They found the boy sitting at the stairs near the cave entrance playing with a makeshift fighter toy. Rey stood frozen the boy had deep black curls, a long face, and his eyes his eyes were soft brown.

"Rey," Finn nudged her softly.

Poe sat next to him,

"I flew one of those you know."

"Really, would you teach me how to fly?" the boy asked excitedly continuing to move the fighter through the air.

"With your mother's permission." he replied softly with a friendly smile.

The boy frowned crashing his toy to the ground, "She won't let me, and she's a better pilot than you."

"Oh is that right?" Poe laughed, "She a strict mother?"

"Yeah." he replied looking at Rey and Finn, "Did she save you to?"

"She did. She's a good person." the Commander said.

The boy smiled, "She is."

Rey kneeled before him ready to ask him his name when another boy around his age yelled for him to join their game of tag,

"Anakin, come on!"

This sent the three of them reeling as the boy ran off to play with his friends. They returned to the living space to find Leia resting.

"What now?" Finn asked alrighty defeated and as if he invented fire he turned to Rey, "Rey use the force!"

Rey gave him a raised eyebrow,

"I don't think that's a good idea." She didn't want to risk connecting with Kylo Ren.

Rose rolled off her bunk,

"Why don't you ask the Queen?" She rubbed her head sleepily.

"She wouldn't answer to us." Poe sighed.

"To Commander Poe Dameron, pilot extraordinaire, Leia's right hand? I think she would." Rose always had a way of making them feel more important than perhaps they felt themselves.

They looked at the sleeping General unwilling to reach out to her for a possible painful explanation.

Rose followed them to the makeshift throne room, but they slammed themselves against a wall. Calliope was before the Queen without her cloak, cowl and gloves. She held deep set scars on her exposed arms but her hands had it the worst. Poe looked on each one wondering how one would endure thousands of small cuts. It was Finn who took notice of the brand on the back of her right hand, the symbol of the First Order. He yanked each of them back into the hall taking deep breaths of recollection. Rose attempted to sooth him. Flashbacks of his time with the First Order struck him hard and those violet eyes seized him connecting the memories. Captain Phasma had introduced the violet vixen to a young group of stormtroopers. She had long hair then braided down her back, and no scars that he could think of. His mind was clouded on what she was there for, but it didn't matter.

"I knew I knew her!" he said panicked,"To the First Order that woman is Nyx of the Knights of Ren. They're probably plotting to call in the First Order."

"Knights of Ren." Rey repeated clenching her fists and recalling the boy with a twinge of …. jealousy.

"General Leia can't know this. She must be under some other kind of …" Poe was at a loss for words.

"Uh…. guys." Rose pointed their attention to the General who was ready to drag them all back by their ears like the nosy children they were.

"I'd like an explanation." The General said sternly after closing the doors of the Falcon. The four of them passed glances between each other. Poe cleared his throat,

"Respectfully General, so would we."

Leia simply raised an eyebrow. Finn took a step forward,
"She's a Knight of Ren."

"She was." the General conceded, "Calliope was. She came back to the light six years ago. She reached out to me through the force." Leia held her head, "I felt her sorrow, agony and regret. She was the reason I held on to the thought Ben could come back for so long-; because she did. Once in awhile she would touch base with me, but it was so infrequent I never thought I'd see her again." Slowly she lowered herself into a seat.

Poe and Finn exchanged unsure looks about telling her of the possibility of-

"Did you know she has a son!" Rey's voice shook the cabin, "About six years old…named Anakin."

"A-anakin…." The General's head began to spin and all she could hear was Poe yelling to get a medic.


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