If you couldn’t tell from the previous entry, we have well and truly entered the belly of the beast. Enjoy!
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The rusted ship flies through hyperspace. Ben reports that they have just enough fuel left to make it to Tinis. Rey repeats this information to the green knight as she tends to her wound. She asks the knight’s name, she says it is Denya. Rey says that they will soon be able to get good help for her, but at that moment the ship falls out of hyperspace. Rey goes to the cockpit where she beholds that Tinis lies broken, the mantle of the planet seeping through great rents in the crust and out into space. They stare, and Ben asks what happened here. R2 burbles mournfully, and Rey says that this must be the doing of the First Order, or the Empire, or some evil war. It doesn’t really matter. R2’s maps of pirate space are decades out of date and the point is that they are out of fuel around a dead planet in pirate space.
Rey returns to the crew compartment and tries to apologize for leading Denya into such ruin, but she shakes her head and says that this was her choice. Her home of Higara is well worth dying for. Rey asks Denya what her home is like, and Denya responds that it is a lush, green planet of rolling hills and verdant fields where many things grow and seasons are mild. Rey says that she would like to see it someday. Denya says that if she doesn’t survive, its people will need a new protector. Rey admits that she has lost all her powers and can’t protect anyone, not even her. Denya says she knows, that this has been the fate of all the Knights of the Twelve Systems. She murmurs that the Force has prevailed even as she drifts into unconsciousness.
The ship drifts, life support failing, through the wastes of space.