I can always go back to “it was fear that kept me here” although I know some people think this is a direct retcon of TLJ. Believe it or not, there can’t be any more of a gap between whatever goes there and his next line: “What are you most afraid of?” This is because he actually finishes the word “here” on screen. What I did in the test is I used the word “near” instead because they both end the same way.

An extended reaction shot for Rey can’t really exist, either, as she says “She never told me” in the middle of it. So if this feels unnatural, then we either have to shorten the line or we have to go back to involving Leia in all this, which I kinda wanted to avoid. A shortened line that could convey the same thing here is “We were made to end him, Rey.” Furthermore, we could also remove “Final lesson” in order to give us some more space to play here.