Whaaat? Two chapters in the same day? I'm on a roll I guess :D
Darkness. She was surrounded by a thick, deafening, darkness. Rey's breathing and heart rate quickened. It was suffocating.
"Rey." A voice. It wasn't Ben. It was a voice from another vision. The darkness began to lift slowly. Slowly she realized she was watching the sun rise over a dessert wasteland. Despite this, it only seemed to provide the faintest light of her surroundings. The eerie feel of this place made Jakku seem welcoming. "Rey." Spinning around to find the owner of the voice, Rey was surprised to see a man around the same age as Master Luke.
"Who are you?" Rey asked hesitantly. The man gave her a small smile.
"Family." Her heart nearly leapt out of her chest. Family. She had been waiting for this moment since she was a child. To be reunited with her family.
"You're Obi Wan Kenobi? My grandfather?" She could barely contain her excitement.
"Yes Rey."
"But—I don't understand? I've been trying to contact you?" She stammered. He gave a light-hearted chuckle.
"Your mind isn't as quiet as you think. Especially when it's being shared with another." Rey hid her face at his pointed gaze. "It's alright. I haven't come here to chide you, but to warn you." Her head snapped up at his words. Brows furrowed in confusion.
"Warn me?"
"I know of your plan, to rescue Ben Solo from an almost certain death."
"You're going to tell me not to do it." She interrupted.
"You didn't let me finish." He fixed his steely gaze on her. "You must do all you can to save him. Bring him to the light. But you must do it alone."
"Alone? I can't do this alone! My friends-"
"Your friends will die." Rey gasped, taking a step back. No! She could never put their lives in danger. The wasteland behind her seemed to pulsate with some sort of heinous energy she couldn't describe. She wanted more than anything to leave this place. "Look at it Rey." Obi Wan pointed out to the horizon. Suddenly hundreds of dead bodies appeared before her. Bloodied, freshly dead from some unknown battle. The wind began to pick up. Mirroring the tempest of emotions she felt. That's when she saw them. Rey gave a cry of anguish and fell to her knees at the sight of Finn, Poe, Luke, and even Leia's bloody pale corpses not far away. She coulnd't escape. The more she looked around, the more people she saw. Chewie, BB-8, R2, on and on.
"No! no!" She screamed covering her eyes. "Stop this, please!"
"To save Ben Solo you must do it alone Rey. If they follow you, they will die. You have to protect them."
"I will! I promise I will. Please just stop this." She begged tearfully. Her vision began to distort. The scene in front of her blurring and melting away.
"You know where to go." It was the last thing he said before disappearing. She was in the darkness again.
The hard floor was the first thing she felt before the room finally came back into view. Rey was knelt beside the holoprojector, sobbing. Frantically she pulled herself up, studying the hologram and coordinates intensely, committing them to memory.
Once she was satisfied that she knew every detail of the map, she erased it.
Ben was following Hux towards the temple entrance when he was nearly crippled by the emotions that hit him. Her fear, her anguish, was paralyzing. For a fraction of a moment he was tempting to relent, to probe their force bond and find out what was wrong.
He pushed the inclination away immediately.
The scavenger couldn't do this to him now! Not while he was so close! He would be experiencing the tendrils of Snoke's consciousness poking around in his brain soon enough. With each step he felt more and more doubtful that hiding his true intentions from Snoke would work. He had managed it thus far. But with Rey bringing out the truth, and being directly in front of him? He didn't stand a chance.
Ben's suspicion of Hux was also growing with the passing moments. Kylo Ren was the Master of the Knights of Ren. Kylo Ren held Snoke's favor, was Snoke's apprentice. So why did Hux seem to suddenly know more than Kylo Ren himself?
They had had reached the entrance now. Ben attempted to calm his emotions.
The temple seemed to let out a deep sigh as the doors slid open. There was no light inside, just a thick blackness that appeared solid from his point of view. Hux headed through the doors without a word. Ben paused momentarily, hesitant to follow him in. Clenching both his jaw and fists it trepidation, he took a step towards the entrance.