Senator Benjamin Organa-Solo and Reyna Palpatine

Senator Organa-Solo was deep in thought about a piece of upcoming legislation he'd spearheaded in the Galactic Senate. Sitting at his massive desk with his eyes turned toward the Chandrilan skyline, the young man was so involved in his contemplations that he almost overlooked the slight ripples in the Force. But as the energy shifted and pulsated around him as if welcoming a long-lost lover, Benjamin Organa-Solo looked away from the vista to meet a set of wide, hazel eyes that seemed to sparkle with light from within, in direct contrast to the rest of the person whose face they graced.

Reyna Palpatine melted out of the shadows to perch on one of the plush chairs littered around his office with a Loth wolf's sleek, deadly grace. Clad in her signature layers of black with her dark hair in a high braid, the Sith princess looked every inch like Dark Side royalty. Her lips twisted in a smirk as she looked him up and down, as if contemplating just how much fun she was going to have taking him down.

While Benjamin and Reyna might have only met each other in person twice, they shared a unique connection in the Force that served to make them known to each other as only soulmates could. On opposite sides of a Galactic war that had already spanned decades and involved generations of both their families, it was safe to say that neither had made any attempt to disclose their connection to another soul.

While the Force connected and allowed them to interact almost every day-cycle, attempting to meet in person was a venture fraught with near impossibilities. They'd learned that as younglings. Seeing her now and knowing that she was physically present in his office, not just a Force connection, made the young senator's heart swell with his feelings. It also made him frown in worry. Nothing but the direst of circumstances would cause Rey to come to him without any warning or prior planning.

The Sith princess might strike fear into hearts across the galaxy, but Benjamin only knew her as Rey, his counterpart in the Force who had always struggled with the mantle thrust upon her slim shoulders, just as he did with his burdens. Growing up surrounded by adults who only saw them as a way to further their own legacy, the two children automatically leaned on the only other person who could understand their unique situation. Now, after years of communicating through the Force, after years of growing as close to one another as possible, their connection had grown so strong as to let one feel the other's emotions across the galaxy, to let one slip into the other's thoughts and memories as if they were their own.

Words were superfluous and the pair appreciated the opportunity to communicate without the traditional means. With so many Force sensitives nearby, heavily involved in their lives and invested in their own desired outcomes for the war, neither Ben nor Rey trusted others, even their families, enough.

With just a glance, Ben was able to discern that while Reyna looked as if everything was normal, or as normal as things could be for a Sith princess, agitation spiked around her. Her normally calm aura was murky and tempestuous, attempting to hide what lay beneath. It was something Ben had never expected to see in Rey. Something which he hadn't known she was capable of -- fear.

"Rey, you're really here? Something big has happened."

In an instant, her slightly husky tone echoed in his mind. Benjamin heard hesitation, something he'd never heard before in their myriad interactions. 

While her tone may have held hesitation, her words were straight to the point.

"The Emperor sent me to kill you."

Princess Reyna Palpatine had been many different people in her lifetime. A princess to her people, a pawn in her grandfather's galactic Dejarik game, a Sith to the uninformed, and a nightmare to the idiotic few who stood in her way.

But there had always been one to whom she'd been nothing more or less than herself. Benjamin Organa-Solo – for all his famous family and legacy, had been a lonely and morose child of nine when she'd been born. During one of their numerous Force connections, Ben told her that the moment she'd come into being, he felt it from all the way across the galaxy, and he'd finally felt complete.

Throughout her childhood, Rey tried to understand what role he played in her life. Friends seemed too trivial for the relationship they shared and considering him a brother felt very wrong in her mind. Even though he was a full decade older than Rey, Ben always felt like a part of her.

She knew that the connection between them was special enough to hide from everyone else, especially her grandfather. That the Force itself was helping her shield her thoughts and their connection from the Emperor removed any doubts from their minds. None of the Force sensitives around them had ever been able to detect, much less affect, their connection, and Ben and Rey had quickly become the most stable fixtures in each other's lives.

Rey's utter belief in Ben helped him tremendously during his emotionally unstable teenage years, and Ben's devotion to her helped Rey find her inner strength and learn to value herself. The Force bound them together in a way that was stronger than the strongest powers in the universe. They were, for all intents and purposes, a single Force wielding soul split into two bodies.

Ben and Rey rose as one and made their way to an access panel hidden in his office wall without even a second thought after her blunt pronouncement. A small, secret chamber opened after a tiny access droid assessed both their biometrics, holding something extremely crucial to their plans.

Even though Reyna was his grandchild, she could count on one hand the number of times she'd been in her grandfather's physical presence. The entire Empire knew that Palpatine had confined himself to Exegol and had multiple cloning labs working on backup bodies to sustain his life force on the mortal plane. But actually finding Exegol and getting there was the main challenge.

In all his supernaturally long life, the Emperor trusted none but Vader with some of his multitude of secrets. And it was just one of those precious secrets, wielded by Vader's grandson and his own grand-daughter, which would lead to the Emperor's downfall. Inside the tiny secret chamber was a wayfinder that the Emperor himself entrusted to Vader, an artifact for which Benjamin and Reyna extensively searched. In what was only their second meeting, they fought their way through Mustafar's lava fields to obtain said artifact from Vader's castle. The wayfinder would lead them to Exegol and Palpatine.

In all their exhaustive planning, neither had any idea what would happen afterwards. Getting planet side and finding the Emperor, along with his clones, was the first goal. The rest would be up to their lightsabers and the Force.

With the wayfinder patched into the Grimtaash's navigational systems, Ben quickly tapped out a short message to his mother's personal frequency informing her that he would be incommunicado for the near future. He and Rey had prepared for almost every eventuality; steps were in place in case either or both of them didn't return from Exegol and their confrontation with Palpatine. The galaxy's future was dependent on their success. Armed with nothing but courage and their lightsabers, Ben and Rey were ready to face their date with destiny.

The Force had made them a dyad and given them the power to affect change in ways no others could. Benjamin Organa-Solo and Reyna Palpatine were ready for the event they had been working towards their whole lives. They were individually extremely strong in the Force but together, they were inevitable. Today, the galaxy would watch in awe as a Force dyad like no other changed the fates of every single being in existence.

With Rey's slim, strong fingers intertwined with Ben's, her heart beating in time with his and their thoughts focused on their future, the Grimtaash went to lightspeed.