He put down his bowl, most of it eaten now save some dregs in the bottom. He looked her over again, drying in front of the hot fire, her skin pink from the heat. He remembered so long ago when his uncle purchased R2D2 and he saw the video of Leia... of his sister, but he didn't know that then...
"It's been a long, lonely existence. I don't see many people," many women. Even back then, his friends had been guys. And even they went off to go to college, to join the resistance. "The Jedi exiled themselves, those that survived. I should never have been the last one, their line should have ended with Master Yoda."
He put his hand over Rey's, squeezed it lightly. "Don't ask to be a Jedi; it's not a life, it's a long, slow death."
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He put down his bowl, most of it eaten now save some dregs in the bottom. He looked her over again, drying in front of the hot fire, her skin pink from the heat. He remembered so long ago when his uncle purchased R2D2 and he saw the video of Leia... of his sister, but he didn't know that then...
"It's been a long, lonely existence. I don't see many people," many women. Even back then, his friends had been guys. And even they went off to go to college, to join the resistance. "The Jedi exiled themselves, those that survived. I should never have been the last one, their line should have ended with Master Yoda."
He put his hand over Rey's, squeezed it lightly. "Don't ask to be a Jedi; it's not a life, it's a long, slow death."