“Fat lot of good that did,” Rey replies with a shake of her head. “I knew you would come back, Ben. I just knew it.”

She watches Ben’s face and the emotions that play across it so subtly, looking into his deep brown eyes. He is the one responsible for his actions in the end, but so many people failed him along the way. It all could have gone so much differently, she thinks, but they’ll never know.

“I would think a dyad would be exempt from that, don’t you?” Admittedly, Rey had sort of forgotten that part of the Jedi code. Or— not forgotten, but at the time it seemed so irrelevant that she didn’t give it much thought. “Why would we be given this sort of connection if we weren’t meant to nurture it?”