Indomitable

She eyed the unfinished lightsaber on her workbench. It wasn’t ready yet, and the one she’d painstakingly repaired—Luke’s—didn’t belong to her. So her quarterstaff would have to suffice as a weapon. Which was just fine. It had served her well on Jakku for years. In fact, someday, once she had mastered this lightsaber-building business, she might design one that felt more like a quarterstaff in her hand. Familiar and hefty. Two business ends. Maybe with a hinge in the middle for portability.

~

A red lightsaber appeared in the figure’s hand, chaotic like Kylo’s, with two parallel blades. Light from the blade finally illuminated a face as pale and gaunt as it was fierce.

Rey gasped, stumbling backward. It was her. Her face, her form. Cold and dark, wearing a Sith cloak, whole at last.

Horrified, she watched as the dark mirror Rey swung her blades apart, forming a long, fiery quarterstaff. It was the very saber she’d tentatively begun designing in her mind.

This couldn’t be real. It was a vision, nothing more.

~

Rey stood, pulling out her own lightsaber. She ignited it.

Her lightsaber glowed white-gold, and she gazed at it a long moment. It was single-bladed, with an outer casing and emitter salvaged from her quarterstaff. The final result felt like the exact inverse of the lightsaber held by the dark Rey of her vision, and she loved it. It was beautiful, it fit so perfectly in her hand, and she would carry it with her forever.

~

I know. I pontificated already.

[About Rey, how magnificent she is, what she meant to me]

But, at this point, I guess you realized that I use the IG platform in the absolutely wrong way.

Attaching images to feelings (and insanely long rants), I challenge myself to always speak about something new every day.

Aaaaaand, there, the character counter is, once again, Damoclean.

So.

A tiny drabble using mostly borrowed words dedicated to her quarterstaff and lightsaber.

Which I adore with my soul.

A minuscule contribution to the #GalacticGalsTribute IG hashtag, which, despite seldom using prompts, I really could not miss TODAY.