Master Korran:
"I dreamed it again. The filth, the cries in the dark. The stench of both the dead and the dying. The creak of that old elevator that promised relief but only brought more pain, more coming down seeking to find remnants of lost ships. To make a fortune off survivors and the precious metals that crashed here.
You could never tell if its night or not. It was perpetually dark there. The rays of the sun did not dare touch that forbidden place. Just as the Tarisian locals and authority had abandoned us, so too did the warm light.
My Padawan does not understand what it feels like to live without day. Without light and freedom. She knows not the horrors of living in such a desperate and hopeless place. No, she has only known the enclave here on Dantooine. Safety and care. Cool grass laid upon rolling hills, sun rays beaming down, each day lighting up both the sky and the land. It glows warm on her face.
It was different on Taris. There was no grass in the under city. Only incurable disease, broken promises and the occasional brawl. It was not easy.
I have nightmares about it, the cries and the screams jolt me out of that world and into this one. My cries and my screams. Wherever 'this one' may be at that point. Sometimes it happens when we're on missions, sometimes when we're back at the enclave. Sii has come in sometimes. Usually to see what the noise was, she is used to it by now I suppose. She doesn't fully understand but she tries. Perhaps someday I'll take her to Taris, or we'll be assigned there. Then she'll see for herself the conditions of living in the dark.
The nightmares though, they need no exaggeration. For just seeing that place is considered a nightmare to me. It haunts me. It follows me. Wherever I go it follows me. This time, this time it was my mother. They locked the doors, I can still hear her screams. I can still see it.
I owe my life to the Jedi Master who found his way down into the under city. He was searching for a lost artifact, a holocron I believe, it belonged to an old Sith Master. Why it was on Taris I have no idea. He didn't find the relic but he found me there instead. I was brought back to this planet to be trained along with the other Force sensitives. I will forever be grateful.
The first thirteen years of my life, I do consider a nightmare. But now, training Sii and having the privilege of freedom and of warm sun on my skin, while it is not a dream per say, it is reality. I must remember that this is my reality."