Star Wars : Emperor's Hand
There are very few memories she has of her life before the Clone Wars. She's tried to put the blame on others; her father, Dooku, Ventress, the Jedi. But in the end, she knows it was simply fate. There is only one memory she holds onto most, at the same time however, she preserves and hides that memory in the back of her mind. She couldn't allow herself to dwell over a life she'll never regain, there is no sense in holding onto pointless thought. Yet if that's the case, why does she still hold onto it?
Herself in the memory, being a little girl with brilliant green eyes and long red hair. A little girl who sits at the top of a steep hill, staring out into the long grass that's brown and green blades are illuminated by the first setting sun in the west. The girl gently picks the wildflowers around her to form a small bouquet to be set in the middle of the dinner table of her house, which is settled behind her. As the sun sets, and her long shadow has cast almost completely over the house, the soft touch of her mother's hand rests on her shoulder as she takes a seat behind her and starts to neatly braid her daughters red hair.
She can still feel her mother's lips caringly kiss her temple before soothingly whispering into her ear. "Mariana, my little Enchantress, you are capable of more than you think. Certainly more than your Father gives you credit for."
"But why is that, Mother?"
She can feel her mother's forehead nestle into the back of newly braided hair. "Because he fears what is unusual to him, as do others in the galaxy. But you are not alone, and you never will be, and you will always have me in your heart, as you will be in mine."
The vision goes blank as the shadow of a shuttle casts down overhead before making a landing in front of the house. One man would depart that shuttle, and would mark the end to the life of Mariana Duran and the beginning of Mara Jade. The man, an older gentlemen with a white neatly trimmed beard and a certain sly charm. He wore the robes of a Jedi, and introduced himself to be a member of the Order, a Jedi Master, named Tyranus.