Rey had always considered herself a smart person. There wasn't much she'd needed to know in the sense of abstract academic pursuits, but she was a fast learner when it came to practical knowledge. Now, though, standing there with Luke as she went over everything she'd gone through ever since hearing that little astromech beeping in alarm in the clutches of a Teedo, it seemed as though abstract thinking was the only thing that helped her situation make any practical sense.
Both the Jedi and the Sith seemed to work on a principle of teachers and students, even if they each had their own terminology for them. Masters, lords, padawans, apprentices — it was hard to keep track of them all and she couldn't be sure which was which, but it was clear that Kylo Ren had thought he could do better than his uncle. He had the power to prove as much, he had the backing of the First Order, he had everything... but he didn't have a student. He could be the next Darth Vader, perhaps, but he could never surpass Luke Skywalker unless he had the one thing he'd managed to take away from him: an exceptional student.
And for whatever reason, he'd seen the potential for that in Rey, and that utterly horrified her.
Hesitating for a moment at Luke's question in the event that she'd yet again done something she hadn't been supposed to, she eventually admitted, "He wanted information. I knew that BB-8 had some information that was important to the Resistance, and I'd seen it, but I didn't know then what it meant. He did. So he strapped me down and tried to take it from my head. I... pushed him out. He seemed surprised, and he pushed harder. I pushed back. Ultimately, he gave up and stormed out. When I realized I'd just kept Kylo Ren out of my mind, I began to wonder what else I could do. I'd heard about Jedi mind tricks, so I tried it on a Stormtrooper and got him to let me go. This was all just after I'd found your lightsaber, so the only explanation I could think of was that it was the Force."
She'd also thought it had all come from Luke, at first, that he'd somehow sent her a message in the form of a vision. That was part of why she'd volunteered to come find Luke in the first place, hoping he'd have other answers to questions she'd never dared to ask. But now that she was attributing the discovery of her abilities to Kylo Ren, it made her feel dirty, uncomfortable, as though she had somehow betrayed Luke.
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Both the Jedi and the Sith seemed to work on a principle of teachers and students, even if they each had their own terminology for them. Masters, lords, padawans, apprentices — it was hard to keep track of them all and she couldn't be sure which was which, but it was clear that Kylo Ren had thought he could do better than his uncle. He had the power to prove as much, he had the backing of the First Order, he had everything... but he didn't have a student. He could be the next Darth Vader, perhaps, but he could never surpass Luke Skywalker unless he had the one thing he'd managed to take away from him: an exceptional student.
And for whatever reason, he'd seen the potential for that in Rey, and that utterly horrified her.
Hesitating for a moment at Luke's question in the event that she'd yet again done something she hadn't been supposed to, she eventually admitted, "He wanted information. I knew that BB-8 had some information that was important to the Resistance, and I'd seen it, but I didn't know then what it meant. He did. So he strapped me down and tried to take it from my head. I... pushed him out. He seemed surprised, and he pushed harder. I pushed back. Ultimately, he gave up and stormed out. When I realized I'd just kept Kylo Ren out of my mind, I began to wonder what else I could do. I'd heard about Jedi mind tricks, so I tried it on a Stormtrooper and got him to let me go. This was all just after I'd found your lightsaber, so the only explanation I could think of was that it was the Force."
She'd also thought it had all come from Luke, at first, that he'd somehow sent her a message in the form of a vision. That was part of why she'd volunteered to come find Luke in the first place, hoping he'd have other answers to questions she'd never dared to ask. But now that she was attributing the discovery of her abilities to Kylo Ren, it made her feel dirty, uncomfortable, as though she had somehow betrayed Luke.