The Dark Academy on Korriban

As usual, it wasn't hard for her to find a speeder and take a trip away from the Academy grounds. She didn't trust the surroundings there enough when it came to speaking of sensitive issues.

Stopping at a location that seemed secure enough, she fished out the communicator from her belt.

What am I going to say... Will I seem helpless for contacting him like this? He probably knows everything that has happened already. It trembled in her hand. Why am I so scared?

She thought back to Sylvain and Kristal last night. They both held up their feelings so well, especially Syl. She wished she had done it as well as he had done when she learned that her mother was gone. But it must've been different, to suffer such loss as a child, rather than as an adult, she reminded herself.

Steeling herself with the resolve given by her two friends, Shaisha made a call she hadn't made in many years; to her father.


(1 Destiny Spent for the scene)

The Wrath appeared and he just stared silently. The reason for this call would reveal itself.

"No doubt you've heard the news of Minister Torsin by now," she begins, keeping it brief. "It would seem, according to an agent of the late Minister, that the attack has connections to traitors within the Empire, particularly implicating Moff Serasai and Darth Baras. The machinations seem to be setting up for a division that could lead to a severely weakened military, if not civil war. The last thing the Emperor's forces need these days."

She half-expected him to end the call at this point, but if he had entrusted her in the care of the Torsins to begin with, Shaisha suspected he must've had some manner of respect for the late Minister of War.

“Agreed,” he says after a long moment of silence.

“I do not see that this needs my intervention though. If,” he pauses lightly and then says, “I act against Baras, I give the Emperor’s approval to Marr, in reverse for Vengean. Both would cause chaos.”

She takes a moment of silence as she ponders the situation.

"And what of the Moff? Removing such a piece could cut off parts of the machinations, most likely lessen the damage, and bring forth one to fill the vacuum that isn't tied to either side."

“Clever.”

“Is this why you contact me, to kill this Moff?” he says calmly.

"... I didn't have a specific target in mind before making the call, though I felt it was only proper to bring this information to a higher authority, one I knew would not be too mired in personal agendas in the matter. The Academy is too full of those."

That he had given her some praise, however small, was not lost on her, and she had to keep herself from smiling.

"I don't know how close you and the Minister were, but he deserves to be avenged."

“He was a credit to his occupation. He was not above being replaced,” the Wrath replies. That was about as much as he had to say on the subject of the Minister.

“I will handle things from here. I am told you have a lightsaber now. I am also told you were not the first.”

And I wonder who told you. The Overseer? Unlikely.

"... That is correct, on both accounts. It was not one I made myself, but claimed as trophy from a slain enemy. My enemy had a lightsaber, I disarmed her and used it to kill her, as mother taught me."

OOC: Perception or Cool roll at Hard difficulty.

D5. MM Perception/Cunning. Hard. Destiny spent to upgrade.: 2eA+2eP+3eD 4 failures, 3 advantage


Why, thank you, Orokos... >_>

It seems imperceptible but there is a slight tick around the eye, and a slight tenseness in the jaw. He continues with, “I see.”

“I expect you will create your own weapon, soon.”

"I will," she assures him, even managing a slight smile. Her success at wielding two weapons in the fight against the Cathar woman had made her interested in creating her own lightsaber to use in conjunction with her claimed trophy.

"... There is one other matter. The Force gave me a vision, regarding you."

“Speak,” the Wrath commands.

I have a feeling I'm going to regret this.

"I saw you torn between two paths. Before you was a vessel of light, and behind you, a wound in the universe. I called for you, inside the wound. You turned away and entered the light, staining it, and becoming a shadowy silhoutte inside the blinding light."

He is quiet as he considers this. His brow knits and he takes in a deep breath and says, “Your assessment.”

Shaisha takes a deep breath as well. It was something she wasn't wholly sure of herself, but had hoped that he would've shed more light on it.

"It's difficult to say...," she bites on her lower lip as she tries to figure out her own thoughts on the matter. "The wound I believe could be the Empire, as represented by the damages done by the machinations by the likes of Darth Baras. The vessel of light, I am not certain, but it is something you will influence."

"Visions may not always be true, but... it seemed wise to let you know about this, as it seemed to concern you specifically."

“Will you turn against me?” he says calmly.

Her ridged brows furrow, surprised and a bit hurt at the question. "No."

"I wouldn't. Why would I?"

“My actions, though you will not understand them, serve a higher purpose. You have been given a vision of things that have yet to be, a vision I have not seen foreseen. I could be impressed,” he says with a glare.

“The dark side is the greatest power in the galaxy, he who wields it, is flawed.”

He allows a moment of silence and says, “The Moff will be dead within the day.”

The call ends.

"Wai-!" it was too late. The call was ended.

What in the blazes was that?

She looked down at the now inactive communicator in her hand. That glare he had given her, his words.

The impending doom of the Moff hardly phased her, as she was the one who had mentioned it, and Kristal's father was a nescessary sacrificial lamb to stem the tide of civil war. Not that she was going to breathe a word about it to either Syl or Kris.

The exchange with the Emperor's Wrath had given her much to think about. Wrapping the cloak around herself, Shaisha sat down on the sands of Korriban and looked up at the darkened sky.