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[Alyse Ti'Varnus]

The blonde Sith remained motionless as the young padawan clawed himself back off from the ground, her white milky gaze staring forwards - as to who or what she was regarding however would remain unknown to those that observed her, she just appeared to be held in a point of stasis surrounded by the swirling energies of the Force that lingered around her like a thick miasma.

The Jedi for the best part was alone within the depths of the ruins, with the shadowy humanoid form staring back at him though crimson orbs. Despite the almost featureless appearance the apparition held, faint whisps of a familiar face would appear amongst the swirling smoke like haze, the slight expression of a twisted grin appearing baring gnarled and almost fanged teeth. "What am I?" the apparition responded, as it stepped forwards - each passing step distorting the haze and revealing more similarities to the young Jedi's own physical form.

"I think we both know what I am Brahe" the shadow form spoke as it came to a halt, less than a meter away from the padawan. "Reach out deep within yourself if you are struggling for the answer, you will soon know what I am to you"

 

[Brahe Sienar]

A twinge of fear caused him to feel a twist in his gut as he confronted the abomination in front of him. The force push had hardly done a thing- clearly whatever this apparition was, it was beyond being physically attacked, or at least appeared to be. Brahe scrambled to his feet and glanced in the direction of Alyse, who had seemingly gone into some sort of dark side related trance. Focusing on the apparition, he attempted this time, in his stubbornness, to subdue it with another force push.

He poured his efforts into the attempt, creating a pressure wave that began to crush inward the walls of the shipping containers that laid beyond the apparition itself.

“I don’t know what you are, but whatever it is, I don’t like it!” He said, trying once more to destroy it. Whether or not that had any effect, however, was another thing entirely.

Truth be told, he was confused. What had Alyse done, exactly? What did this apparition want from him? But the reality was that he was in denial. Denial to such an extent that he was unable to accept and believed so much in ignoring that this was the primordial truth of who he was. The dark, inner nature that he struggled so hard to suppress.

The truth didn’t set him free- it scared the hell out of him.

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[Alyse Ti'Varnus]

The young Jedi still had much to learn it would appear, even though the blonde appeared to be in a different phase of momentary existence to that of Brahe and the manifestation of his Darker self - she had been watching intently from beyond the milky white gaze, listening to the exchange between the Jedi and the shadowy form that she had drawn out of him. It was as if the Padawan had been so blinded by the teachings of the Jedi that the Darkside was something to be destroyed and removed rather than accepted and controlled, the expressionless gaze of young Sith shifted into a visible frown as the Force swelled within the Jedi as he lashed out with the Force in a vain attempt to overpower a part of himself.

"Enough!" Alyse spoke out, her tone stern and authoritative, causing the apparition's attention to shift away from Brahe and towards the Sith, before either sides of the Jedi could react, the shadowy figure broke from it's form, dissipating into a black smoke like haze that swirled around the Jedi for a moment before being forcefully pulled towards the blonde Sith, her hand stretching out to the side and opening fully to absorb and consume the dark essence she had extracted from the Jedi and pulled it into her own essence. As the form disappeared so did the oppressing sensation of the Darkside that had chilled the room around them, leaving just the Jedi and the Sith standing in the middle of upturned cargo containers.

The milky white eyes of the Sith slowly phasing back to their normal hue, baring the faint trace of an amber ring that surrounded her irises. Slowly the young blonde, closed her eyes and took a long deep breath focusing her thoughts and reaffirming control over her state of being and the dark energies she had consumed from the Padawan. Her eyes opening after a brief silence, her eyes falling and fixing upon the younger Padawan. "Whether you choose to accept it, all of us even the purest of Jedi masters have their own seeds of the darkside" Alyse spoke out, her arms folding over her chest. "I merely acted as a mirror to show you what own your eyes cannot yet see" she added, carrying an air of explanation to what the the Jedi had just experienced. "The darkness that resided within you, I have extracted it and removed it from your being, but heed this warning you will never be free of it the slightest falter will be enough for it to once again take route" The Sith spoke as she stepped away from the Jedi, her gaze still lingering over the younger male through the corner of her eyes.

"You may take this as an opportunity for renewal, free to continue along the path of the Lightside, free from the corruption that had taken root" the blonde spoke, stopping in her steps to reach out to the side to summon her satchel from amongst the debris. "But remember, that neither the Jedi or the Sith codes give all the answers, to fully understand the Force you need the contrast" She continued as she looked over the Jedi texts she had recovered from her satchel, checking for any damage. "Not just blind obedience to one ideology" Alyse concluded before closing the book and stowing it back within her satchel.

 

[Brahe Sienar]

“No wait! I…..” Brahe bit his lip, falling to his knees in ideological defeat. She was right- if he didn’t learn to master his inner darkness, it’d eventually take him over. He wasn’t sure what to do exactly at this point…in fact what he had been so sure of was something he now questioned himself, but something needed to be done. And so he did the only thing he felt would help him understand.

“The Jedi….you’re right- the answers I’ve gotten from them aren’t adequate. I need to learn more, lest the darkness consume me.”

He placed his hands on his lap with solemnity, a bead of sweat running down the side of his face. Uncertainty played across his face. He didn’t want to become lost to the darkness. He didn’t want to lose sight of who he was. Alyse had shown him that the dark side of the force could be tempered and controlled, as evidenced by her almost casual dismissal of the entity he had seen earlier. She embraced her own inner darkness, while he did not. The stark difference in their knowledge of the force was shocking to the young padawan, despite her being only a couple years older. He had not considered the possibility of there being a way to harness the dark without letting it take over. Had the masters at the order truly harbored a dark side? Or was it something that they were able to shrug aside due to it being either minimal or non existent? Brahe couldn’t be too sure, but he knew that his inner darkness was something too great to ignore. He hoped that she would grant him this one request. This one chance to see something of the force greater than what he had seen before.

“Please….teach me.”

 

[Alyse Ti'Varnus]

Stopping in her movements, Alyse cast the young Jedi an inquisitive look as he spoke out her eyes narrowing as she regarded the sensations of the Padawan as he faultered through the Force. Her lips pursing in thought as she listened to the broken words of the younger male who seemingly had just had his entire world turned upside down, internally part of the Blonde's Sith was impressed at how much of an effect a well phrased argument could have against the protectors of the Lightside, yet she wasn't going to gloat over the fact, there was little point in kicking the Jedi when he was down - especially that he was now emploring her to teach him to better temper and control the darkness that would once again seep into his being, there was little point in being taking advantage of Brahe whilst he was clearly vulnerable.

A long sigh escaped the Sith's lips, as she regarded Brahe over a tense silence, her eyes seemingly looking over the younger male up and down over and over again as she assessed the Padawan, mulling over her throughts before raising a hand up to caress the side of her mouth. "I will train you to temper your inherant susceptability to the Darkside" Alyse spoke out after a further prolonged silence, before she started to bite on her bottom lip as she mulled over what she was to say next. "But I will caution you this, by doing so you will run the risk of being outcast by the Jedi Order, I doubt they would look favourabily on a member of the Order who has learned to embrace and control their inner darkness, from a Sith no less" the blonde continued cautioning the Padawan, anticipating that whilst their intentions may be well meaning, there was no denying the fact that there would be Jedi who are so headset in the doctrines of the past Jedi before them would be blinded in their single sided zelotry.

She was not going to Force the Padawan to follow her into the Path of the darkside, knowing that the risk of temptation would be all too great for the Jedi, that choice was to be his and his alone. Whilst many of her counter parts would relish in the opportunity to corrupt and bend a Jedi into serving the darkside, Alyse still believed greatly in personal automony - prefering for those around her to make their own choices, and with the case of the Young Padawan she doubtled that any deliberate attempts to co-erce him into embraching the Darkside as so many of the Fallen Jedi, would go unnoticed. "The Darkside will tempt you and do anything in its power to claim you, I am going to offer you my guidance, but i will not force you to walk the path of the darkside. That decision is one that you and you alone must make" she added before her attention pulled over to an upturned container that appeared to have spilled some parts that looked mechanical in nature.

Pulling the straps of her satchel over her head, the blonde tidied herself up, before gesturing towards the overturned crate and the strewn components over the floor. "I suspect that those might be the fruits of your quarry" Alyse spoke as she started to step away, towards the winding network of corridors. "For now I will give you the opportunity to think over my offer, make sure you are comfortable with the risks that this will entail. I will be travelling to Zygerria in two standard weeks, if you do wish to learn of the darkside and the teachings of the Sith, meet me there. If not, then May the Force serve you well Brahe" the blonde sith spoke out in parting, offering the young Jedi the chance to think over the offer being presented to him before he comitted to this venture, before disapearing into the aperature cut into the blast door of the the storage chamber and gradually fade into the shadows that engulfed the winding network of corridors.

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