“I’m sure you did,” she spat sarcastically, voice raw and unyielding as she tugged hard against her restraints.
“A lifetime ago, yes,” he confessed, gently probing her Force Signature. “But you don’t remember that, do you?”
Through the Bond, he shared with her his memories of a life now long past — a life in which they were happy, a life in which he belonged to her as much as she belonged to him.
“You’re… You’re lying,” she whispered, tears springing to her eyes as she struggled to process the revelation.
“Not about this,” he sighed, carefully pulling away from her subconscious. “I loved you more than anything, Rey… And there will never come a life in which I won’t love you again.”