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“Of course you wouldn’t understand, you had everything . I had nothing, I was nobody. I was filled with all of this power that I didn’t understand. Snoke taught me how to wield it, made me his apprentice. If it weren’t for him, I would still be nothing but a scavenger, slowly starving to death on Jakku.”
“Perhaps you are right. You are no longer nobody, you no longer have nothing. But, Rey, you still know nothing .”
“I know more of the Force than you could ever dream.”
“I was not speaking of the Force.” He steps closer to her, so close that she fears he could hear her heart pounding. “You know nothing about me, or my family, or, kriff, even yourself.”
“And I suppose you believe that you do? Tell me, Ben, tell me who I am, then.”
“You’re a scared little girl who let a powerful man poison her mind.”
“And you are arrogant enough to believe that you are my antidote.”
“Is it arrogance if I know it in my bones to be true? If I have never been more sure of anything?”
“And you say that I know nothing,” Rey scoffs.
“What did Snoke tell you about me? Did he tell you that before he found you, he had already been whispering in my ear for over a decade?”
A scowl appears on her face for the briefest of moments, but she quickly regains her composure.
“He nearly turned me, too. It could have so easily been me with the red blade.” He had seen it once, in his dreams. An image of himself, masked as his grandfather had been before him, a saber glowing red in his hand. She sees it now, too, as if it were her own memory. “But I am no Sith, Rey, and neither are you.”
“I have been inside your head, Ben, as you have been in mine. You may have fooled the galaxy into believing that you belong to the light, but you cannot fool me.”