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[ezra_of_lothal]

Getting away from Thrawn and the remnant of the Seventh Fleet had taken more time and effort than Ezra liked.

But they didn't outright kill him, which was a pleasant surprise.

Strangely, it doesn't take nearly as much time with his 'borrowed' shuttle, to find some ruins that remind him a little of the temple on Lothal. He's not entirely convinced this place was originally built by Jedi, but it doesn't quite feel like the Sith temple on Malachor, either. Still the Force is...heavy, here.

His foot slips in a stone corridor lit by the light from his small kit, and he falls.

He's not sure how long he falls.

But eventually he's picking himself up off dusty ground, squinting at a lot more light. And a person. A woman?

"Hi," he croaks.

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[jedied]

Time travel. Of course. Of all the things she hadn't fathomed in her quest to somehow defy the hand she had been dealt and pull Ben back from wherever he drifted, unreachable but still somehow present in the Force as she'd known he must be, she'd never contemplated that the answer lay in stepping through time itself instead.

The possibility implanted itself somewhere in her consciousness, to be dealt with later, once she's done blinking stupidly at Ezra in mild disbelief.

"He's Anakin's son. He was an older man by the time I met him, but if you don't even know of him -- he must've been a baby, or a young child."

[ezra_of_lothal]

He's...just not dealing with the implication of the possible time travel for the moment, but he is struck by another thought.

"Do...you know if he happened to grow up on Tatooine?"

[jedied]

Rey nods; it's one of the early things that had drawn her to the legends. Luke Skywalker, Jedi hero, had been a nobody from a desert planet for his entire childhood too.

"He did. He was raised by an aunt and uncle. He joined the Rebellion at age nineteen and destroyed the first Death Star soon after. He helped defeat Palpatine... twice, I suppose, considering that he did help me in the end."

[ezra_of_lothal]

He blinks a couple of times. The Emperor is dead? The Death what?

"That...just brings up lots more questions, but I'm pretty sure it does answer what Master Kenobi was doing lying low on Tatooine. He was the answer to defeating the Sith. Just not directly."

[jedied]

"Obi-Wan Kenobi, yes! He helped train Luke. I've read some of his notes on the Jedi texts. He died before I was born, though, fighting Vader."

She didn't know the entire depth of history there; it was all just notes in a long history that concluded before her birth. If this Ezra had come from the time when there were still Jedi -- she can hardly contain the excitement that this realization sparks.

[ezra_of_lothal]

"Oh." He feels unexpectedly gut punched at that news. "Vader found him and killed him?" he mumurs, a little numbly. "Vader tried to kill Ahsoka. He cared about her, once. I guess I shouldn't be surprised he killed his former master."