[I won't tell if you won't!

and she figures that this is the best she can hope for. disappointment? fear? probably. in his shoes, she'd probably react the same way.

but things were...different. Luke Skywalker wasn't anything like what she hoped he would be, making her feel more isolated than like she belonged to a proud history of Jedi. that she was foolish for hoping for it.

and despite that, she felt a slowly growing kinship with Kylo Ren. at first, she'd hurled insults at him, which he either accepted or agreed with.

then he told her what nearly happened as he slept at the Jedi School.

and then...then he listened to her, empathized with her, tried to reassure her after her awful experience in the cave. he'd shown something she never would've thought him capable of: kindness]

Yes. He ordered that the assault on the transports was to stop. And it did.
Then there was a---a flash of light. When I woke up, the throne room was in even worse shape than we'd left it in and Thirteen was there.