Trelain could hear the gears grinding in the Commander's head, and she just let it happen. She let him mull it in his mind and let his doubts take root and linger, growing deeper and taking hold.
No, no one told him to, she repeated, letting the words really sink in. No one had told him to change, he had just done it without even realizing. It was the simple presence of the Sith around him that slowly let the Dark Side pierce his heart. Just as Clove's mere presence would pierce his heart.
Because she is still a Jedi, she said simply. Sure, she's dropped the trappings of the Jedi and maybe even has officially left the Order, but has she really changed? she asked. So many - even Jedi - failed to see that being a Jedi was about more than just a name. Sometimes those with the name fell short of the goal and sometimes those who abandoned the name still carried it as if they hadn't. It was why Darth Sidious had worked so tirelessly to hunt those Jedi who had even abandoned the Order and sought to live in isolation.
You're rising, Altair. You've said yourself you want to be Warmaster. Equal to two others in the Empire and under only two, she said, letting it sink in for him just how highly placed in the Empire he would be. Everyone but Draugr, Raze, the Empress, and herself would bow to him.
You tell me what a Jedi could hope to gain whispering in your ear, she said.
No, no one told him to, she repeated, letting the words really sink in. No one had told him to change, he had just done it without even realizing. It was the simple presence of the Sith around him that slowly let the Dark Side pierce his heart. Just as Clove's mere presence would pierce his heart.
Because she is still a Jedi, she said simply. Sure, she's dropped the trappings of the Jedi and maybe even has officially left the Order, but has she really changed? she asked. So many - even Jedi - failed to see that being a Jedi was about more than just a name. Sometimes those with the name fell short of the goal and sometimes those who abandoned the name still carried it as if they hadn't. It was why Darth Sidious had worked so tirelessly to hunt those Jedi who had even abandoned the Order and sought to live in isolation.
You're rising, Altair. You've said yourself you want to be Warmaster. Equal to two others in the Empire and under only two, she said, letting it sink in for him just how highly placed in the Empire he would be. Everyone but Draugr, Raze, the Empress, and herself would bow to him.
You tell me what a Jedi could hope to gain whispering in your ear, she said.