The Dark Academy on Korriban

He ends the torment and says, “Terror is the base emotion, it is the prime motivator. It is what is left of us when we are stripped of all finery and decency. It is the animal that we trap inside ourselves.”

“It is our weapon.”

“None of us are above it,” he says placing a hand on her cheek, it is not comforting.

“Now go and when the time comes I will summon you to my side.”

She understood well what he had told her. It was that primal fear that had pushed her to take dire action in both turning points of her life. Both times she proved to be most powerful when cornered.

Jadus was not a nice man by any measure. But this was not his role to be. She weathered the touch staring into the mask.

"Thank you, master."

She bowed, then departed promptly, catching breath and wiping the sweat off.

/exit