[ Leia makes an affirmative sound, and then the next hour of Rey's is spent discussing the specifics of Ben's return before it progresses into talk of potential allies and planets of interests.
They've received more defectors, Leia tells her. They're receiving more and more defectors each day, and Hux's sudden demise has drawn in an influx of stormtroopers inspired by Finn's story. The Resistance's numbers are still so small, but it has rekindled a hope they've nearly lost, and given them access to new intel.
They're stable, for now. Growing. Sustaining themselves. Leia gently warns her not to take too long, however. They can spare her for a week, perhaps two if she means to push it, until she's back on another supply run or reconnaissance mission. Poe and Rose have taken over most of those duties in her absence, Leia explains, but the Falcon is a resource they need.
When the frequency drops out, Rey leans back in her chair and just — breathes. And then it's back on her feet, trailing that path back to Ben. When she enters the hut, now astoundingly clean, she's still wrapped in only that blanket. Her clothing, as it turns out, has all been left on the cot. ]
I spoke with General Organa. [ She says as she takes a seat next to him as a clumsy greeting. Waiting to tell him isn't the Rey way, and so she bluntly comes out with what's on her mind. ] I'll need to return to the Resistance soon.
[ She looks at him, then, openly earnest. ]
But I'll come back. I promise.
[ It doesn't occur to her that she's following the same outline of a vow she'd imagined, created in her mind and claimed it to be the voice of her envisioned parents. Unlike those figments, however, she means every word. ]
all those cum rags scattered
They've received more defectors, Leia tells her. They're receiving more and more defectors each day, and Hux's sudden demise has drawn in an influx of stormtroopers inspired by Finn's story. The Resistance's numbers are still so small, but it has rekindled a hope they've nearly lost, and given them access to new intel.
They're stable, for now. Growing. Sustaining themselves. Leia gently warns her not to take too long, however. They can spare her for a week, perhaps two if she means to push it, until she's back on another supply run or reconnaissance mission. Poe and Rose have taken over most of those duties in her absence, Leia explains, but the Falcon is a resource they need.
When the frequency drops out, Rey leans back in her chair and just — breathes. And then it's back on her feet, trailing that path back to Ben. When she enters the hut, now astoundingly clean, she's still wrapped in only that blanket. Her clothing, as it turns out, has all been left on the cot. ]
I spoke with General Organa. [ She says as she takes a seat next to him as a clumsy greeting. Waiting to tell him isn't the Rey way, and so she bluntly comes out with what's on her mind. ] I'll need to return to the Resistance soon.
[ She looks at him, then, openly earnest. ]
But I'll come back. I promise.
[ It doesn't occur to her that she's following the same outline of a vow she'd imagined, created in her mind and claimed it to be the voice of her envisioned parents. Unlike those figments, however, she means every word. ]