p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I woke up with a start. I was sweaty, and when I tried to sit up I hit the top of my head on the concrete roof of the tiny bed cubby I had not put myself in. I laid back down and rolled myself out of the hole in the wall, and stumbled into a rather large cell. There was a table and a chair in the center of the room, and a toilet carved into the far wall. The leftmost wall and part of the far wall were metal beams that functioned as a wall for other cells adjacent to the one I was in. There weren't any people in them, as far as I could tell. On the table was a holo book titled "a history of galactic wars". I approached it, looked around, and tapped it. The screen flicked on and opened to a page in the book. I began reading what it said, but found the horrible slanders written about the First Order to be too much. I clicked off the holo book and frowned. I sat on the floor and leaned my back against the concrete wall. I shut my eyes and tried to figure out what my latest memory was./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I know we landed on D'Qar for the attack, I am most likely still on D'Qar. We got into the base, so perhaps that's where I am. The last thing I was certain occurred was a Knight getting shot by a Wookiee. I'd thought the infiltration was going very well, however I cannot remember what happened after I saw the Wookiee./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I was still in the black long sleeve undergarments that often hid beneath my gear, however my gear was nowhere to be found. My boots were sitting on the floor by the bed cubby and my cloak was folded next to them. I reached over and grabbed my cloak, pulling it around myself. I spotted my helmet sitting by the door. My staff was also missing./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"The hall my cell was in was quiet and small. There were only 3 other cells in the hall and to my knowledge all three were empty. I shut my eyes and tried to search the Force for other signs of life. I sensed people outside the doors into the hall, and I sensed the Force signature of Leia Organa. I shifted to the soldier next to her, a mind much easier to explore than hers. I focused on his information that ebbed it's way through the force. His thoughts and his memories clouded around his conscious. I willed them out of the way and finally entered his mind, finding his eyes and his ears as only an observer./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em"...are you sure it's going to do our organization any good?" Finn said./em I allowed the soldier's brain to fill in the identification blanks./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em"It disrupts Ben, and we know how he'll react when he gets disrupted. Also, the First Order's resources aren't entirely depleted. They still may want to negotiate for her." Organa said./em The First Order, depleted?/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em"She's just a Knight." Poe replied./em/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em"Just trust me, okay? This one is worth holding on to." Organa said, then paused. She looked at the soldier I was observing and narrowed her eyes./em/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em"Sooth, do you have a headache?" She asked./em/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em"A little bit, why?" He replied./em/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I pulled myself out of his head, though it was clear that Organa had already noticed my presence. I leaned my head back again and kept searching through the Force. /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I scavenged the base, my strength in the Force allowing an easy reach of a mental arm. I looked throughout D'Qar for any recognizable signature, but the few sparks were so foreign. I found my mind reaching further out into the Ileenium system. As I stretched into the outer rim, I felt a speck of a spark that sent chills throughout my body. It was him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Kylo Ren./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"My eyes flicked open. I looked around the cell and flicked them shut again. I sat up against the wall and tried to meditate. I wasn't going to reach Ren without complete focus./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"As I slipped through the cracks of meditation I thought about the Force, it's grip on everything around me, how it floated in thick invisible tendrils along the air, how it ran through me. I thought about the Darkness of the Force, how destined it seemed for me to wield such ability, how perfectly crafted my skills were for such a side of the Force. I thought about the security the First Order had provided, and the success I had found within it. I thought about the days with a growling stomach that couldn't be silenced. I thought about the bead of hot sweat that trickled down my temple as I reached for a space ship that wasn't coming back./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"It took all of my energy to follow the flicker of light that was already difficult to find. I focused on the speed at which the ice in my head melted when Ren entered the room. I discovered that it wasn't his authority that brought my chest to life, it was him. It wasn't primal lust that made me want him to touch me, and it wasn't fear of disobedience. It was him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"After a vigorous mental struggle, I grabbed ahold of Ren's eyesight and was greeted with a blaze of red light. Metal was flying everywhere and all I experienced was a quiet destruction. I tapped into his ears and heard the screeching of titanium being ripped to shreds. A circuit board got slashed and wires came popping out, several of them sparking. I watched for a moment before he stopped abruptly and looked up from his toil. He looked at his reflection, and I saw that some of his hair was stuck to his forehead with sweat and there was heat behind his eyes. His expression looked surprised with a hint of his previous anger. He looked at the mess he'd made and looked at himself again, and mouthed "Rey"./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I know we landed on D'Qar for the attack, I am most likely still on D'Qar. We got into the base, so perhaps that's where I am. The last thing I was certain occurred was a Knight getting shot by a Wookiee. I'd thought the infiltration was going very well, however I cannot remember what happened after I saw the Wookiee./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I was still in the black long sleeve undergarments that often hid beneath my gear, however my gear was nowhere to be found. My boots were sitting on the floor by the bed cubby and my cloak was folded next to them. I reached over and grabbed my cloak, pulling it around myself. I spotted my helmet sitting by the door. My staff was also missing./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"The hall my cell was in was quiet and small. There were only 3 other cells in the hall and to my knowledge all three were empty. I shut my eyes and tried to search the Force for other signs of life. I sensed people outside the doors into the hall, and I sensed the Force signature of Leia Organa. I shifted to the soldier next to her, a mind much easier to explore than hers. I focused on his information that ebbed it's way through the force. His thoughts and his memories clouded around his conscious. I willed them out of the way and finally entered his mind, finding his eyes and his ears as only an observer./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em"...are you sure it's going to do our organization any good?" Finn said./em I allowed the soldier's brain to fill in the identification blanks./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em"It disrupts Ben, and we know how he'll react when he gets disrupted. Also, the First Order's resources aren't entirely depleted. They still may want to negotiate for her." Organa said./em The First Order, depleted?/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em"She's just a Knight." Poe replied./em/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em"Just trust me, okay? This one is worth holding on to." Organa said, then paused. She looked at the soldier I was observing and narrowed her eyes./em/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em"Sooth, do you have a headache?" She asked./em/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"em"A little bit, why?" He replied./em/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I pulled myself out of his head, though it was clear that Organa had already noticed my presence. I leaned my head back again and kept searching through the Force. /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"I scavenged the base, my strength in the Force allowing an easy reach of a mental arm. I looked throughout D'Qar for any recognizable signature, but the few sparks were so foreign. I found my mind reaching further out into the Ileenium system. As I stretched into the outer rim, I felt a speck of a spark that sent chills throughout my body. It was him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"Kylo Ren./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"My eyes flicked open. I looked around the cell and flicked them shut again. I sat up against the wall and tried to meditate. I wasn't going to reach Ren without complete focus./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"As I slipped through the cracks of meditation I thought about the Force, it's grip on everything around me, how it floated in thick invisible tendrils along the air, how it ran through me. I thought about the Darkness of the Force, how destined it seemed for me to wield such ability, how perfectly crafted my skills were for such a side of the Force. I thought about the security the First Order had provided, and the success I had found within it. I thought about the days with a growling stomach that couldn't be silenced. I thought about the bead of hot sweat that trickled down my temple as I reached for a space ship that wasn't coming back./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"It took all of my energy to follow the flicker of light that was already difficult to find. I focused on the speed at which the ice in my head melted when Ren entered the room. I discovered that it wasn't his authority that brought my chest to life, it was him. It wasn't primal lust that made me want him to touch me, and it wasn't fear of disobedience. It was him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"After a vigorous mental struggle, I grabbed ahold of Ren's eyesight and was greeted with a blaze of red light. Metal was flying everywhere and all I experienced was a quiet destruction. I tapped into his ears and heard the screeching of titanium being ripped to shreds. A circuit board got slashed and wires came popping out, several of them sparking. I watched for a moment before he stopped abruptly and looked up from his toil. He looked at his reflection, and I saw that some of his hair was stuck to his forehead with sweat and there was heat behind his eyes. His expression looked surprised with a hint of his previous anger. He looked at the mess he'd made and looked at himself again, and mouthed "Rey"./p