"I am one with the Force and the Force is with me."

The words were quiet, but carried over the roar of destruction all around. They must have been her imagination, the mind playing tricks in the moment before death claimed her and Cassian. She held him closer, resting against his shoulder as he slumped against her.

"I am one with the Force and the Force is with me."

The words came a little louder this time, a little clearer. Jyn was almost sure she heard Chirrut's voice.

"I am one with the Force and the Force is with me." It was Baze's voice this time, distant but unmistakable.

Jyn's mother had told her stories about the Jedi, about the amazing this they could do. Trust in the Force, she had said, putting the Khyber crystal around Jyn's neck.

"I am one with the Force and the Force is with me." It was both Chirrut and Baze's voices, strong enough to be unmistakable. There was no possible way she should be able to hear them.

Trust the Force said her mother's voice, not audible like Chirrut and Baze, but no less real.

"I am one with the Force and the Force is with me."

She wrapped her arms around Cassian and waited for the end with a smile. She did trust the Force, trusted that she would see all of them again, that this was not the end. And the end, even a temporary end, didn't come. The destruction passed them by, a cloud of dust and smoke rushed around them but they were somehow shielded from the worst of it. The ground trembled and they waited.

"I am one with the Force and the Force is with me." The voice began to fade as the destruction settled around them. And they were alive. Injured, and trapped on a dying world, but alive.

"Thank you," Jyn said, unsure if their fallen friends could hear her.

Everything around them was changed, crumbled and broken by the might of the Death Star. The tower itself was entirely gone. She was aware of how heavily Cassian was leaning on her, most of his strength spent to reach this point.

"I am one with the…" The fading voice was interrupted by the hum of a motor and a ship hovering above the cracked and broken terrain.

"Get in," Bodhi Rook shouted over the sound of the engine. She needed no further prompting and helped Cassian up into the ship.