phone no!!

[ sam had felt pain when they lost anakin, still feels it like a throbbing wound, but it's nothing like what comes from ren. they had the bond with the force, he knew, and some manner of history, but it never came to light, despite so much ren had openly shared with him. there's a blur and a rush of things that aren't familiar - still ren, but not something he'd seen of him before, too muddled to make sense of yet. ]

( Ren? Are you hurt? What happened? ) [ there's the fear that it's some sort of brain damage, but wouldn't the symbiote repair that? it had pieced sam's mind back together, after all. dread sinks deep in him, anchoring and dragging at him. ]