The Rise of Skywalker Junior Novel (Star Wars) by Michael Kogge

Author:Michael Kogge [Kogge, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2020-04-21T00:00:00+00:00

REY HAD SAID she’d sensed Ochi’s dagger was on the Star Destroyer. But there was more to it than that. The dark side tugged at her. And as on Ahch-To, she couldn’t resist following it.

It drew her through the corridors of the Steadfast, where she snuck past stormtroopers and officers. It took her up one lift, down another, through engineering, and near the barracks. It led her to a sparsely furnished white room that could only be the private quarters of Kylo Ren.

On an obsidian pedestal sat a relic far more terrifying than any Sith dagger—a helmet and mask that for a generation had been the face of ultimate evil in the galaxy.

Ravaged by fire, what remained made a most hideous form. No longer a polished and glistening black, the durasteel had dulled to the ghastly gray of ash. The mask’s triangular grill, notorious for the breath that had rasped out of it, had become a jagged maw. And stripped of their lenses, the eyeholes were dark and soulless, just like the monster who had once stared through them.

This charred relic was all that was left of the Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Vader. Despite his death decades earlier, this remnant of his terror still simmered with pain, loneliness, and hate. Rey forced herself to look away.

On a shelf opposite the pedestal lay Chewbacca’s bowcaster. Next to it was his bandolier, shoulder satchel, and the dagger of Ochi of Bestoon.

Rey picked up the dagger and the bandolier, then put the bandolier back down. The dagger took all her attention.

Its handle was cold to the touch, so cold she shivered. She heard the echo of screams. A woman, a man. A child. The sounds reverberated from the metal of the blade.

“Rey,” said a voice.

Rey grabbed her lightsaber with her free hand and activated it. What she saw with her eyes was not what she saw in her mind. Her eyes saw the rest of the room. Her mind saw Kylo Ren.

“Wherever you are, you are hard to find,” he said. The voice he projected was the one modulated by his mask, lower in tone, with the crackle of static electricity.

“You’re hard to get rid of,” she replied, and turned her mind away from his.

“I pushed you in the desert because I needed to see it. I needed you to see it—who you really are,” Ren said. “I know the rest of your story, Rey.”

Those words were perhaps the only ones that could make her mind tune back to him. He might not be in the room, but she pointed her saber at him.

“You’re lying,” she said, hoping he was.

“I’ve never lied to you,” he said. “Your parents were no one. They chose to keep you safe.”

She hissed to shush him. He kept talking. “You remember more than you say. I’ve been in your head.”

“I don’t want this!” she cried out.

“Search your memory,” Ren said.

She was done with their conversation. Whatever new truths he could tell her would only further confuse her and hurt her.

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