Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Junior Novel

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alone he became known as his own name slipped into the recesses of the past along with knowledge of the Republic's most stalwart guardians the Jedi Knights whose extermination extermination he engineered With no one to oppose him he held the entire galaxy under his command Only mortality stood in the way of eternal rule though even that might be overcome if he discovered the ancient secrets It was at the height of his power when all seemed secure that the unforeseen happened happened His own apprentice turned against him throwing him to his death and thereby helping topple his Empire Once there was a boy who was born with an extraordinary extraordinary gift He could hear things see things and do things others could not His mother shared a similar gift as did his uncle but not his father What was special about the boy's gift was that he heard voices from time to time The voices told him secret things and warned him when he was in danger He did as the voices instructed and told no one else about them not his parents or his uncle who trained him to join a new order of Jedi Knights As the boy grew older the voices faded from his dreams until he forgot about them altogether But their influence remained He eventually eventually spurned his uncle's teachings and used his gift not for good but for evil His parents had named him Ben but the name he took for himself was Kylo Ren Once there was a girl who had many dreams One of them was to become a pilot and see the stars In preparation preparation she practiced endlessly on flight simulators and built her own speeders from scavenged parts She also dreamed