Oh, I know about Force bonds, Angel.

You know, the basics.

How to manipulate them, how to use them to weaken people like you.

People like who you used to be, anyway.

Whatever.

I just pretend not to, for your sake.

If you pretend you don't know anything, everyone calls you a fool and leaves you alone.

The fools are the ones you should be wary of, take it from me.

Scoundrel's honor.

But back to Force bonds:

It's the easiest way to kill a master, you know.

Off their little apprentices, break the connection - it's easy, if you know what you're doing.

Alright, so maybe this insider information isn't so basic.

But anyway, sure, I know about bonds.

I know more about them than you suspect.

Fool that I am, even I know how unusual it is for a Jedi to make as many as you do.

How unusual for them to be as strong as yours are.

You almost made me feel special for a moment there, sweetheart.

Everyone we picked up after Telos?

Just admit it; you collect us like stray gizka.

Even now, I feel you near me, when we're a whole moon apart.

Me on my back under the pilot console, making repairs as slowly as possible, I can feel wisps of your presence as if you're here and wondering how long it will take to get us space-worthy again.

Thanks to that faint and already corrupted thread that's bonded us since Peragus and still makes me sick to think about too much.

I'm not even jealous about all those private meditation sessions with Blondie.

Me? Jealous?

Of the kid?

In your dreams, princess.

I think I'd know if I had any real competition.

Don't get me wrong, I don't have any delusions about us.

Not besides the ones vulgar enough to keep the witch out of my mind for days at a time, anyway.

I might be a fool, but I'm not stupid.

I can't invade people's minds like you and that hag can, but I know my place.

You and me?

Even I'm smart enough to know how that would turn out.

Maybe it's fate.

Or the Force, as people like you would say.

People like who you used to be.

Whatever.

Fate is not a pretty master.

People like you can't take people like me seriously, Force bond or not.