"I fought with a bo staff in my... my home, I suppose." Then again, Jakku had never really felt like home. "It sounds as if where you come from, Jedi need a stick to center their oneness with The Force. How odd," she thought out loud at him, "But I suppose if I had needed a stick for that purpose, I would feel quite lost without one, as well." Jedi had their preferences in battle, but none that she'd read about - and certainly not Leia, nor Luke, nor Ben - needed something to focus their power as this young man needed.
Not all galaxies were equal, it seemed. Had she misjudged this boy? She had always had a pretty good sense of people. Maybe he was what Luke would call an apprentice? Rey didn't know. Her training definitely hadn't been traditional, she couldn't judge.