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“It was I who bridged your minds. I stopped Ren's conflicted soul. I knew he was not strong enough to hide it from you, and you were not wise enough to resist the bait.” Rey struggled, but she lacked the strength to resist Snoke as he used the Force to pull her forwards again, closing the distance between them until his rank, decaying scent was almost enough to make her choke. “And now…”
Although unable to look away from the lopsided, milky eyes set deep in the creature’s twisted face—even if she had been willing to risk flinching and granting him the upper hand—out of the corner of her eye, Rey saw Ben’s dark form walk slowly by, into the open hatch of the strange metallic chamber that was installed behind the throne.
She had noticed it immediately as Ben had brought her into the throne room, its smooth, silvery, egg-like form unadorned except for the engravings of four unfamiliar runes, and a small control panel dotted with tiny blinking green lights, stark against the bloody red that drenched every other surface. With the merest glance, she had been able to tell that the...whatever-it-was...was far more advanced than any of the scrap she had ever salvaged for Plutt, or even anything she had seen on Starkiller Base. But there had been no time to wonder about it. Not until Snoke was dead, and Ben was free.
With a final chuckle, Snoke propelled her away from him, and into the chamber behind Ben. The hatch whispered closed behind her.
There, sealed together in the darkness, Ben finally swept her up in the kiss that he had so clearly wanted in the elevator. As his strong hands closed fully around her waist and his hot mouth ate hungrily at hers, the sudden flood of his emotions and memories crashed through the stony revetments that she had worked so hard to build around her inner self, and washed away her lingering fears and anger, even more completely than that night by the fire. As she reached up and wound her fingers into his dark curls, she even felt as if her body was dissolving, as if the very atoms of her being were being teased apart and rewoven together with his...