Ben eventually sits back, her hand still in his, and lets his breathing slow, and deepen.

He doesn't sleep. But he lapses deeper into his meditation for the remainder of the night, existing for those few hours between the Force and his own body, reaching for the serenity he's only managed to glimpse after a decade's work.

But by the time the single Terran sun that shines over Millways is seeping into the room, he looks for all the world like he is asleep.