backpack filled with sketching supplies and several cans of primer. The faint sunlight filtering t

a measuring tape, noting down dimensions and rough sketches in her not

paints, brushes, and a wooden palette. The cashier had looked puzzled when she paid with crumpled bills, t

As she moved around the room, something caught her eye near the steel workb

, she b

, but one brown document folder looked different. Heavy, seal

g, Rey opened

was a bold-ti

untary Severance

lo

ing Severance

ressed: L

the draft looked serious. Marginal notes lin

go of Organa Security. Addressed to "Benjamin" and signed by Le

rawled in jagged red

ET

the elevator dinging

it behind a pile of paint cans. Her hands shook slightly as she

r opened. Foo

n had r

-

ing the room like a blade. He paused, watc

rted?" he ask

. "Yeah..just cleaning first.

the corner where Rey had hidden the folder. Rey's heart

on the steel table and

supplies?" he asked, pull

mate," Rey said, for

nce I finish pre

er work, silently praying he

-

isting the cap off. Then, without warning,

hing s

nched i

thing strange," sh

do yo

closely, as if we

ook...

short, ne

one's luxury apartment," she said, w

ut at the hazy city skyline. A beat of silence passed between th

grew up in a

her heart

answered

lection in the window loo

remember yo

-

tion sta

rip on the rag, her

"Not at all. They left m

into her voice befo

read, but there was something there - not p

back toward the window. "Very well.

-

tward, Rey fought

ad been ripped

ck to grasp fully

tterflies flitted through a vast meadow. Golden gr

h of his chest, the smel

bered fee

the folds of memory. The image flickere

e memory down. She focused o

e window, oblivious to the whir

-

ed his si

ered if her strange familiarity

bout him and about herself - had be

ht of the

e Benja

e Leia

a Sec

ad seen the name in news articles, associated wit

ies? And why was the letter violently torn, as if

ords MEET ME burne

r jaw, feeling h

orking on this mural, she would uncover th

nd them together across all