Before that hand-touch scene in TLJ.
"You weren't even trying to resist." His nostrils had flared, his eyes wide.
"I've only seen that kind of raw power once before. It didn't scare me enough then, it does now." Luke's words had felt like a knife to the gut, painful and angering.
She stayed up on that rock longer than she would care to admit, just reeling in her emotions as she tried to meditate, feeling the force around her. Part of her was angry, she had not known what that dark hole was, had not known that she should fight the unrelenting pull of it. The other part of her could see sense in his fear, his unwillingness to work with her, especially now.
Time had passed, and she finally made her decision. She wanted to find out just what was pulling her down, down into the cold darkness. Perhaps she would find one of the answers she was seeking.
Staring down into the pitch black, Rey swore she could feel the cold seeping out of it, the vines hard and jagged beneath her hands and knees. Suddenly, and with great force, she was pulled into the pit. She let out a cry of surprise before she crashed into the water she hadn't been expecting.
It was an odd experience, looking into her reflection and being looped. When she found herself at the end she finally asked the question she had been asking herself for years. "Who are my parents?" A shadow approached, and for a second she though perhaps it was Ben, coming to answer her question through their force connection, but then the glass in front of her cleared and she was met with her own confused reflection.
With no answers she trudged out of the cavern, sopping wet and a miserable feeling in her gut. When she arrived at the surface she was met with pouring rain, though she wasn't surprised. At least the rainy weather matched how she was feeling, the confused and let down feeling of not knowing.
As she got to the door to the hut she was staying in she felt the absolute silence that prefaced being connected to Kylo Ren. Closing her eyes, she breathed in deeply, and she didn't mind.
"What's wrong?" The first words that met her ears made her heart clench as she realized how well he could read her, understand her.
She opened her mouth, her eyebrows furrowing slightly as the rain slid down her face, but no sound came out. "Rey?" his voice was soft, and she found herself wanting to tell him everything. Heart pounding, she slipped into the hut, knowing that although he could not see her location he would still follow.
