[ As hyper-focused on Ren's Force signature as she is when she first arrives in Concordia, Rey finds she can't concentrate as easily on the other input she receives throughout the Nest. But after their altercation, when her spine has been nearly severed and she spends quiet days recovering in the infirmary, she becomes aware of another signal, and she reaches out with her own senses to find it.
Someone is reaching back, and with a sharp inhale her mind intercepts it — loneliness, betrayal, the laser sights of thousands of guns trained on unsuspecting hearts. Children of all sizes and shapes and colors and species, mouths open in wonder at a grand, majestic temple.
Rey wanders and turns corner after corner until she comes to where the pull is the strongest, down another hallway and into the doorway of a room, completely uninvited but unable to resist knowing. A girl unlike one she's ever seen — not many Togruta visit Jakku, after all — looks back at her, undeniably just as curious. ]
assuming this is much later, after her fight with ren.
Someone is reaching back, and with a sharp inhale her mind intercepts it — loneliness, betrayal, the laser sights of thousands of guns trained on unsuspecting hearts. Children of all sizes and shapes and colors and species, mouths open in wonder at a grand, majestic temple.
Rey wanders and turns corner after corner until she comes to where the pull is the strongest, down another hallway and into the doorway of a room, completely uninvited but unable to resist knowing. A girl unlike one she's ever seen — not many Togruta visit Jakku, after all — looks back at her, undeniably just as curious. ]
...Who are you?