[ The Doaba Badlands are not kind. The arid humidity greets her as she scales rolling hills, experience lending to fleet-footed steps, but the speedy familiarity of her pace is no match for the blurring whir of a speeder.
The fine hairs at the nape of her neck stand to attention as its droning fills her ears. The Force buzzes in tandem, an unwelcome cocktail that staggers the faltering musculature in her legs before she recovers. He's here, it seems to whisper as it stirs the air around her, rejoicing and recoiling all at once.
Rey spares him no glance, unwilling to slow herself down to gauge the closing distance between them. Even that affords him an investment she is not eager to give. Beginning to exhaust her energy reserves, she breaks into a sprint just as the speeder begins to kick up sand and eroded rock behind her, realizing — belatedly — that she is leading him straight to the shelter she has claimed for herself in the heart of the desert. A cave looming in the distance, near to Socorro's volcanic rocks and sparse oases.
It will not surprise her if he destroys that, too, just as he has devastated all that he has ever touched. ]
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The fine hairs at the nape of her neck stand to attention as its droning fills her ears. The Force buzzes in tandem, an unwelcome cocktail that staggers the faltering musculature in her legs before she recovers. He's here, it seems to whisper as it stirs the air around her, rejoicing and recoiling all at once.
Rey spares him no glance, unwilling to slow herself down to gauge the closing distance between them. Even that affords him an investment she is not eager to give. Beginning to exhaust her energy reserves, she breaks into a sprint just as the speeder begins to kick up sand and eroded rock behind her, realizing — belatedly — that she is leading him straight to the shelter she has claimed for herself in the heart of the desert. A cave looming in the distance, near to Socorro's volcanic rocks and sparse oases.
It will not surprise her if he destroys that, too, just as he has devastated all that he has ever touched. ]