[ Rowana doesn't like Rey's proposal one bit. The minute Rey marches up to her, Rowana can smell it on her. Not the sex. That would be a real bad time. But the fact that she plans to make a request — ask for a favor, some special treatment, something like that. And Rowana immediately laughs and puts her hand up and tells her that's not how it goes here.

But still Rey pleads her case.

She starts with the Force. Rowana has little compassion for this connection they feel, for her nightmares, for the Dark Side (whatever that means). It doesn't mean anything to her. She's never believed in it, she says, and the Force has never done her any favors. She deals with what's in front of her.

But having it dangled in front of her and denied (or at least, she'd gotten her own hopes up, and that made it feel dangled in front of her) pushes Rey towards panic. The dark swells around her. And then something more genuine comes out — the fear at the root of all of it. ]

I don't know anyone else here.

[ She confesses this, a strain in her voice. ]

Please. I'm not used to being around anyone else, but Ben … I feel safe with Ben. I know he won't try to hurt me. Just please.

[ And Rowana does, at least, take pity on a girl from Jakku who's been scrapping and surviving and has learned not to trust anyone as far as she can throw them. So Rowana gives her an awkward pat on the shoulder — not maternal at all, but brusque and business-like — and sends her off to grab her things.

'I'll have the bunk cleared out for you,' she says.

Rey goes back to the original bunk she was assigned, greets Jayne, and collects her quarterstaff. It's the only thing she has. ]