[As it turns out, Ben Solo is a vivid dreamer and a deep sleeper.
She might be able to feel the warmth of the sun on her face -- not the harsh, direct sort of unforgiving Jakku sunlight, but the warm embrace of Chandrila's sun. He seems a bit younger, lounging on top of the Falcon with one of its maintenance panels left open. There are some smears of engine grease on his clothes and hands. It seems he's fallen asleep during something he'd been doing.
He continues like this for a while -- peaceful, but alone. Eventually, a far off irritated wookiee call rouses him, and he sits up to stretch, no doubt in an effort to look busy as fast as possible.
But his perspective shifts when he tries to find Chewbacca's location, and the Falcon is no longer parked on Chandrila, but on the empty, desolate, and uninhabitable moon of Raada. The feeling of the sun disappears.
He finds the scenery shifting just as the cold and dread start to set in -- his mother puts her hand on his shoulder, and warmth instantly fills him as he turns to embrace her. It lingers, but after a long pause, he can feel something soaking through his shirt. When he leans back, he can see the tears on her face. "What's wrong?" he asks before spotting the golden dice of the Falcon in her hand alongside a hologram of his father -- a bounty claimed.
But before the details can be given, their meeting place is under attack. He absconds with her as swiftly as they had met. The sound of Stormtroopers are not far behind. Anxiety, grief, terror, hatred -- they're all perfectly clear and present. "You have to go."
When it seems like he might wake from the terror of it, the scene switches one last time. His mother is not getting any younger, but at least she has Chewbacca with her. She still makes time for him even in the middle of leading a Resistance. "You shouldn't" Ben says to her, impatient, before she confesses how much she misses him. Anything else they say is lost to forgotten mumbles. About the Resistance, about all the people who still needed help, about people the Resistance would never reach -- and about how he couldn't come back until it was all fixed.
And he sits there for the rest of the sequence with his last communique with General Organa playing in the dimly lit cockpit of the Falcon at some far off sand dune on Catonica, sick to his stomach.]
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She might be able to feel the warmth of the sun on her face -- not the harsh, direct sort of unforgiving Jakku sunlight, but the warm embrace of Chandrila's sun. He seems a bit younger, lounging on top of the Falcon with one of its maintenance panels left open. There are some smears of engine grease on his clothes and hands. It seems he's fallen asleep during something he'd been doing.
He continues like this for a while -- peaceful, but alone. Eventually, a far off irritated wookiee call rouses him, and he sits up to stretch, no doubt in an effort to look busy as fast as possible.
But his perspective shifts when he tries to find Chewbacca's location, and the Falcon is no longer parked on Chandrila, but on the empty, desolate, and uninhabitable moon of Raada. The feeling of the sun disappears.
He finds the scenery shifting just as the cold and dread start to set in -- his mother puts her hand on his shoulder, and warmth instantly fills him as he turns to embrace her. It lingers, but after a long pause, he can feel something soaking through his shirt. When he leans back, he can see the tears on her face. "What's wrong?" he asks before spotting the golden dice of the Falcon in her hand alongside a hologram of his father -- a bounty claimed.
But before the details can be given, their meeting place is under attack. He absconds with her as swiftly as they had met. The sound of Stormtroopers are not far behind. Anxiety, grief, terror, hatred -- they're all perfectly clear and present. "You have to go."
When it seems like he might wake from the terror of it, the scene switches one last time. His mother is not getting any younger, but at least she has Chewbacca with her. She still makes time for him even in the middle of leading a Resistance. "You shouldn't" Ben says to her, impatient, before she confesses how much she misses him. Anything else they say is lost to forgotten mumbles. About the Resistance, about all the people who still needed help, about people the Resistance would never reach -- and about how he couldn't come back until it was all fixed.
And he sits there for the rest of the sequence with his last communique with General Organa playing in the dimly lit cockpit of the Falcon at some far off sand dune on Catonica, sick to his stomach.]