I have little doubt you'd have found your way here, eventually.
The notion of history repeating itself sat a little less pleasantly with Luke, given his particular history. Then again, Artoo finding him, while a coincidence in some respects, had a logical explanation--he'd been looking for Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Ben had only settled there because of Luke, little as Luke knew it at the time.
There was a part of him that wanted to lean into the connection, as if to wrap himself in it like a cloak, as if the chill of years alone would not soon leave and he was newly aware of it with her arrival. Had she not come, he might not have noticed, and would eventually have simply... stopped. He didn't see that happening anymore.
"I've never met anyone who could do that so quickly," he said out loud. "Complete sentences, images?" He shook his head. "The universe has a way of making sure people with that kind of ability aren't hidden forever."
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The notion of history repeating itself sat a little less pleasantly with Luke, given his particular history. Then again, Artoo finding him, while a coincidence in some respects, had a logical explanation--he'd been looking for Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Ben had only settled there because of Luke, little as Luke knew it at the time.
There was a part of him that wanted to lean into the connection, as if to wrap himself in it like a cloak, as if the chill of years alone would not soon leave and he was newly aware of it with her arrival. Had she not come, he might not have noticed, and would eventually have simply... stopped. He didn't see that happening anymore.
"I've never met anyone who could do that so quickly," he said out loud. "Complete sentences, images?" He shook his head. "The universe has a way of making sure people with that kind of ability aren't hidden forever."