She hated that he kept insisting that the lightstaber was hers, though Rey couldn't deny what she'd said. She hadn't wanted it. Past tense. Now...
Now it gave her a sense of purpose, and she'd never had that before. It was exciting. But it wasn't without a sense of irrational guilt as she wondered over whether her family was currently wildly scanning the deserts of Jakku in search of her.
But even Luke had found his father after having left Tatooine, a father that he'd been told had died years before. Maybe staying on Jakku had been the very reason she hadn't found her parents.
"I just... wanted to feel as though someone cared about me," she murmured softly. "Staying on Jakku was all I knew to do to achieve that. Leaving meant possibly never coming face to face with anyone who would know anything about the little girl who'd been left with Unkar Plutt years back." It was why she'd always tried to never directly antagonize the ugly Blobfish, since he'd been the only link she'd had to her life before being a scavenger.
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Now it gave her a sense of purpose, and she'd never had that before. It was exciting. But it wasn't without a sense of irrational guilt as she wondered over whether her family was currently wildly scanning the deserts of Jakku in search of her.
But even Luke had found his father after having left Tatooine, a father that he'd been told had died years before. Maybe staying on Jakku had been the very reason she hadn't found her parents.
"I just... wanted to feel as though someone cared about me," she murmured softly. "Staying on Jakku was all I knew to do to achieve that. Leaving meant possibly never coming face to face with anyone who would know anything about the little girl who'd been left with Unkar Plutt years back." It was why she'd always tried to never directly antagonize the ugly Blobfish, since he'd been the only link she'd had to her life before being a scavenger.