sunday six meant to have this fic finished two years ago

[fiachairecht]

Starting working on an 'Ahch-To is the Feywild' fic prettttyyyy much as soon as TLJ came out, seven separate vignettes around the theme of Rey and Kylo meeting on Ahch-To while looking for Luke, and how time moves differently there. I have three of those left to write, this one is from the one where the Knights of Ren (the ghosts of padawans Kylo killed at the academy) took him to Ahch-To to recover post-Starkiller, and have come to lead Rey to him as well as Luke.

There is a hole in the universe where the First Order should have been after their victory: instead, they have gone wholly silent, an empty inverse of the New Republic's scramble to put some semblance of life back together. Rey cannot shake the feeling that her ghost has crawled out of that hole, a trade for something no one quite knows how to speak.

No one has quite spoken the fact that Rey will not leave to search for Luke just yet, either, but the First Order's oppressive absence hangs over D'Qar like a shroud, and Rey knows that she must stay until it's lifted. She doesn't mind, not even though it means the ghost remains glued to her side. It's easy enough to stay out of the way, for the most part. There is no shortage of things to be repaired, and while the pilots are not precisely trusting of someone they still call Jedi like a curse, her hands are not bleeding and her belly is full.

The ghost in this case being Macha Ren, borrowed with deepest love from valsansretour and in my defence, Nina killed her first.

Comments

[maplemood]

Oof, this is really, really good. Ahch-To as the Feywild is SUCH a fantastic concept, and when you combine that with Reylo...

[fiachairecht]

Eee, I'm glad! Fey Ahch-To of some shade or another is pretty much my default, but the structured way of exploring time moving differently is fun. (The ones I've written so far are here, if of interest - no obligation, ofc.)