( Her answer, however negative, inspires in him some relative cause for relief as much as it does some relative cause for alarm. Ji, while trained somewhat in the Force, does not at all carry the same aptitude that he and Rey have been privileged with as a result of their focused tutelage under masters brimming with knowledge of their own respective sides. She's picked up tricks through her own volition and learned how to swing a saber as a result of sparring with Kylo when the others yielded and he was still hungry for more, and she abandoned a planet that raised warriors and taught their daughters to be unconquerable; Ji is second in command for a reason, her tenacity notwithstanding, but this preternatural ability to cloak herself from arguably two of the strongest Force-users left in the galaxy stinks of Snoke and his desire for retaliation.
It is and isn't something that Kylo should have been expecting. He had been well aware that the Supreme Leader would stop at nothing to see the Knight he raised from a boy into a weapon punished, and it would be foolish to assume that Snoke's influence could not extend this far across the galaxy when Kylo himself has felt the heavy cruelty of his master's hand sliding against his mind, moving aside the thick bone of his skull to do so. But that had been understood as a result of the connection established between master and apprentice, the link that Rey had allowed him to break, spiraling down into this situation in the first place. That he is able to shield Ji from them in this way, presents two options, both equally as alarming as the next, though Kylo seriously doubts Ji's abilities within the Force growing so rapidly in two days' time, if Snoke has chosen her to replace Kylo in more ways than one. )
I don't know how likely it is that Ji wouldn't sense a trap with or without training in the Force. If Snoke is shielding her, then it's possible that he's helping her in some other way, too. ( But it isn't a disagreement or an admonishment. Just a statement of fact made as Kylo ignites the glowrod and holds it low. This doesn't afford them much light to see by as they pick their way through ghoulishly twisted buildings and husks of cold machinery, all of it rusted and rotted from old age, disuse, and time. ) I could project myself, if you were to cloak yourself. Draw her out that way so that we aren't waiting for her for two days while she scours the moon looking. Collapse it and trap her inside once she responds to the call and shows up.
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It is and isn't something that Kylo should have been expecting. He had been well aware that the Supreme Leader would stop at nothing to see the Knight he raised from a boy into a weapon punished, and it would be foolish to assume that Snoke's influence could not extend this far across the galaxy when Kylo himself has felt the heavy cruelty of his master's hand sliding against his mind, moving aside the thick bone of his skull to do so. But that had been understood as a result of the connection established between master and apprentice, the link that Rey had allowed him to break, spiraling down into this situation in the first place. That he is able to shield Ji from them in this way, presents two options, both equally as alarming as the next, though Kylo seriously doubts Ji's abilities within the Force growing so rapidly in two days' time, if Snoke has chosen her to replace Kylo in more ways than one. )
I don't know how likely it is that Ji wouldn't sense a trap with or without training in the Force. If Snoke is shielding her, then it's possible that he's helping her in some other way, too. ( But it isn't a disagreement or an admonishment. Just a statement of fact made as Kylo ignites the glowrod and holds it low. This doesn't afford them much light to see by as they pick their way through ghoulishly twisted buildings and husks of cold machinery, all of it rusted and rotted from old age, disuse, and time. ) I could project myself, if you were to cloak yourself. Draw her out that way so that we aren't waiting for her for two days while she scours the moon looking. Collapse it and trap her inside once she responds to the call and shows up.