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Rey
Rey has been in Jakku for as long as she can remember, any time she starts to count her tally marks on the wall she has to pause and swallows a painful lump. The only thing that gets her by is thinking that her family will one day return. She cannot remember her life before Jakku and the only reason she knows her name is because of her dreams. Always the same, a beautiful lady in a silky flowing blue dress and hair like hers up with 3 little buns down the back.
She just calls to Rey to come take her hand and when she grabs it a warmth of love spreads to her. The dream never lasts long and she is slowly starting to forget what her mother looks like but the feeling still remains. She knows her mother cannot possibly live on Jakku, she has never seen a dress on a woman let alone one of such beautiful fabric. No, everyone here is always tightly bundled up in dirty rags with no skin showing. The sand, wind,heat and freezing desert temperatures don’t allow such luxury.
She also knows she has a soul mark meaning she spraked with her soulmate before she lost her memories. A red mark on her arm where he must have touched her. She can feel it burning which is a common sign her other half is thinking about her. He must think about her day and night; rarely it doesn’t burn. Her dreams also show her she had a friend, a pale lengthy boy with big ears and a beautiful goofy smile.
He is about 14 or 15 in her dreams and she always appears as a little girl. His appearance only happens because of nightmares which have been constant lately. She is running from a monster: tall, huge,dressed in all black and a helmet to conceal his face. Just like out of the childhood stories of Dark Vader and Luke Skywalker he wields a terrifying red lightsaber. Just when she feels her body freezes in place she will be transported to what looks like a child’s bedroom. Where the boy is sitting on the bed, within seconds she collapses into his arms.
The boy just holds her, placing soft, sweet kisses all over her face. His deep brown eyes stare at her like she’s his world. She feels happy, loved and almost like they are one. Sometimes she can hear him whisper that he loves her and misses her. When she has calmed down the dream starts to fade, he squeezes her tighter and she feels his unbearable pain and loneliness. She would like to think these dreams are memories from her past but he always says he will find her.
Rey wakes up before sunrise to start her day. She eats a simple ration bar and takes a small amount of water from her dehumidifier and leaves her ATAT. She has become a very gifted scavenger, her ability to find expenses parts has helped her survive. When she first started word got out in the Nima outpost of the lucky young scavenger. Whispers about her using the force started circulating.
She would bring back huge steals from wreckages which were thought to be thoroughly ransacked. This led to a little girl to be robbed and beaten, a hard lesson to be had. Rey went days without food and stayed far away from the popular wreckages. She collected enough items to trade to Plutt for a used staff. Like scavenging Rey was a natural at combat, with fast reflexes and the ability to predict her opponents moves. Which she demonstrated on the next person who tried to rob her. She was then again left alone, waiting.
One day Rey was high into an old imperial star destroyer, she had a vision of something that was hidden in the wreckage. The image was clear and she wasn’t even sure it was worth even a half portion. But she just had a feeling she needed to find it. She never really thought herself force sensitive but anyone who has met her says she is.
The small crowds of scavengers that were actually friendly had told her so. While she finally climbed to the deck where she believed the object was hidden she started to hear whispers. She quickly shook her head and clearly she must be dehydrated. None of the whisper made sense but she felt great darkness stepping close to a chamber door. A few steps closer and the door hissed open, causing a wave of evil darkness to flow into her. She immediately felt nauseous and cold sweat started to pour out of her. Her first thoughts were to turn and run but she froze instead.
Strangely the whisper sounded like the sweet boys from her dreams, which was dumb right? Her stomach was still in knots but she slowly forced herself to move totally into the chamber. There was a huge broken window and right below it was a throne like chair. She decided to just hurry to look for the object. She found another small chamber which called to her. Inside was a small triangle object sitting on a black stand. She felt odd thinking that the whole room was made to display this one thing. She studied it before picking it up. It was made of metal and glass, red and black like clouds swirling inside it.
She could feel the power and darkness pulsing from it. The second she touched it the whispers stopped, which made her frown. For being a smaller item it was heavy and warm to the touch. She slipped it into her sack and bee lined out of there.
Once she saw the sun she immediately felt better, she still could feel the object almost like it was a live. She hopped on her speeder and headed to the out post. She had wasted the good part of the morning on this savage , and knew it would be unwise to continue without a break.
Arriving in town she saw a group of people standing around Plutt’s trading stand. Looks like there was a holo playing or something. Usually she wouldn’t bother to check it out, but she wanted to see if Plutt knew anything about the object. So she made her way into the crowd and when she made it to an opening she saw him.
The monster, Right away, asked, “Who is that?”
Plutt snapped “Quiet girl”
and it dawned on her that every single person was just trying to listen. She followed suit.
The monster was speaking with a voice module which was a chilling deep voice. She slivered on hearing it and the cold sweats returned. He was talking about the power of the new world order and how he will be restoring peace and order to the galaxy. Rey's mind started to spin, the monster that hunted her was the new emperor Kylo Ren. While she was trying to fathom how she knew what he even looked liked and how the Rai, was she dreaming about him?
She didn’t notice the holo changed to something else, unable to comprehend what she was seeing. She blinked several times. There on the scene was the object she had in her bag right at this very moment. She came closer and she knew without a doubt on further examining it. She started to panic when she focused back on what the emperor was saying. He was putting up a reward for the return of the object to the rightful Emperor.
He then proceeded to explain the planets that it might be located. Jakku is of course the first planet listed followed by Endor and Kef Bir. The whole Port was buzzing about the reward and Rey just felt sick.
Rey got home as fast as she could, latched her small door and tried to breath. Her mind was reeling with questions; Did the Emperor know she would find it? Is that why he was chasing her?
How can he know she would be the one to find it? She knew she had to hide it, so she stashed it safely inside an old alliance helmet and hid it in an old metal drawer. Strangely she felt better now it was out of sight. She sighed and realized she hadn't collected anything to trade for portions.
She gathered herself up and went back into the desert heat. Picking at another sight she collected something that should provide dinner and breakfast. She headed back to Nima outpost to trade at Plutt’s.