[ For all the effort that had gone into finding Luke, more time still went into tracking down the second of two mothers who'd lost their children to the darkness within the Force. When Ben lost himself and became Kylo Ren, decimating Luke's padawans, it was Mara who had escaped with Rey and hidden her away. She knew better than any of them what Kylo Ren would be capable of, even if Leia did not want to believe it.
She'd left Rey there without anyone to trace her back to her real parents, to keep her safe, and Rey swore to herself that when she found her, she would be understanding of that fact. Her father (it was odd, still, not to think of him as Luke Skywalker, but instead as "Dad") had asked that of her in the same breath with which he'd explained the truth of it, and she knew his hope was that, armed with the truth, she would be forgiving.
Leaving Chewie on board the Falcon, she makes the trek across the planet on her own until she finds her on whatever outer rim garbage dump of a planet she'd squirreled herself away on for the same reasons—or maybe different ones. Rey wondered what it had felt like for her mother all this time, living with the choice she'd made but knowing she had to make it. ]
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She'd left Rey there without anyone to trace her back to her real parents, to keep her safe, and Rey swore to herself that when she found her, she would be understanding of that fact. Her father (it was odd, still, not to think of him as Luke Skywalker, but instead as "Dad") had asked that of her in the same breath with which he'd explained the truth of it, and she knew his hope was that, armed with the truth, she would be forgiving.
Leaving Chewie on board the Falcon, she makes the trek across the planet on her own until she finds her on whatever outer rim garbage dump of a planet she'd squirreled herself away on for the same reasons—or maybe different ones. Rey wondered what it had felt like for her mother all this time, living with the choice she'd made but knowing she had to make it. ]