TLJ Jr - Mind Read

He flicked his hand and Rey flew off her feet, slamming into an invisible wall a few meters away. He kept her levitating high off the floor as the hideous tentacles of his mind invaded hers, contorting the flesh of her face.

“Give…me…everything!”

Snoke’s tendrils slithered like snakes around her brain, and with one vicious pull seemed to yank her lobes apart. She flailed and screamed, but there was no end to the pain.

With her mind went her defiance. She gave Snoke everything.

[...]

Kylo Ren averted his eyes from the mental torture Snoke was inflicting on Rey. But that didn’t stop him from hearing Rey’s screams. He knew the anguish of a mind being torn open and having its secrets ripped out. He’d performed the act many times himself—even on Rey after he had captured her on Takodana.

When his master had taken what he wanted, Rey fell to the ground near Ren with a bone-crunching thud. She turned over, groaning.

“Well, well, well,” Snoke said, “I did not expect Skywalker to be so wise. We will give him and the Jedi Order the death he longs for. After the rebels are gone, we will go to his planet and obliterate the entire island.”

The revelation startled Ren. Luke Skywalker was a coward, not someone who sought death. If he wanted out, why didn’t he do it himself?



- The Last Jedi: A Junior Novel, Chapters 19 and 20