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Rey sat on the ground, sobbing, her hands still holding Ben’s body which had slumped out of her arms.
“Ben.... Ben...come back”, She sobbed hopelessly.
There was nothing left keeping her here without him.
Suddenly, a heavy sense of calm enveloped Rey like a warm blanket, and in that moment, she knew precisely what she had to do. Gathering what little strength Ben had given her, Rey repositioned them so that Ben’s head was lying in her lap with her legs crossed. Slowly, she drew in a deep breath. Then another. She sat like this for a few minutes, gathering her own strength through the force.
Then, leaning down and closing her eyes, she placed her small hands on either side of Ben’s face, and kissed him for the second time, breathing some of her lifeforce into his lungs. The second kiss, longer than the first, seemed to take Rey’s breath away, straight out of her lungs, and after a moment she fainted, collapsing onto her side.
They lay together like this for long minutes, Ben’s seemingly lifeless head in Rey’s now crooked lap as her body regained enough strength to bring her back to consciousness. Transferring one’s lifeforce into another was draining, even to a most experienced Jedi, and Rey was already weak. She’d only hoped she had enough life in her to share and keep them both alive.
An hour passed before Rey’s body brought her back to consciousness. She jolted uptight with a gasp as her eyes went straight to the face still in her lap, unmoving and apparently unliving.
Stifling another sob, Rey moved to stand, when the smallest of groans reached her ears.
”No. Is he...?”, Rey looked back down at Ben’s face for a moment before slowly moving her ears to his mouth. For a tense moment, nothing happened.
Then, a breath, and on it, a single word.
“Rey...”