The Letter:
"Be not alarmed, Madame, I write this letter without intent to humble myself or further pain you. Neither shall I renew the sentiments which repulsed and revolted you so greatly. I thank you in advance for allowing me to bestow my unwanted opinion upon you yet again in reading this letter... Although I feel wholly justified in my demand of your attention, as I wish to address the charges you have laid against me and my character. The first charge; that I willfully separated a young couple in an act of undue malice. The second, that I obliterated the career and future of fellow Jedi, Cin Drallig... the latter of these charges which I find magnificently more damaging than the first, have compelled me to undo the wrongful besmirching of my good and honorable name.
It pains me deeply to think of ever wanting to, in defiance of honor and humanity, ruin my childhood friend, favorite of my former Master, and source of current disinformation. Despite this, I write without the intent to slander. When I was young, I was without a master, without family, living among the Order fully expecting a life of solitude, back breaking agricultural labor and regret when I was rescued by my teacher, who had recently been expunged from his role as Master by his own student. Cin Drallig was a young man with a promising future favored by mostly everyone in the temple for his happy manners, physical acuity and intuitiveness. Including the disillusioned Jedi Count Dooku, who offered him the coveted role of apprentice against the wishes of his own former student, Qui Gon. Mr. Drallig, upon receiving the offer rallied to the council and immediately commenced to dropping Qui Gonn Jinn as a master, breaking his heart and spirit. The others saw Cin Drallig differently by this, as his ambitions went against the tenets of our religion. He was subsequently abandoned by the Count, who decided against the idea of taking a new student. By then, Master had already taken me as apprentice and it was Cin Drallig who was left without a master and Not I. It was his selfish materialistic desire for glory, adventure, and power that ruined him... Not I. Eventually Mr. Drallig became resentful of my success with Master, my newly bestowed rank and prominence and has sought to ruin me ever since.
As to the charge that I willfully destroyed a couple, who by all accounts should not be together in secret or public... my actions were done in service of a friend. I was in want of protecting his future. Ultimately, the pursuit of a friendship with Senator Amidala is his choice, but his secrets must be kept from me, forever, as I would have done the same had my earlier designs come to fruition.
This, madame, is a faithful narrative of every event of present concern; and if you do not absolutely reject it as false, you will, I hope, acquit me henceforth of cruelty towards Mr. Drallig, and my apprentice, Anakin Skywalker.
I shall close this letter, and again, apologize for having taken liberty with your time. But must convey once more, that the prejudicially applied charges you have made against me, necessitated this last and final communication.
Sincerely,
OBK
Christa closed the letter, her heart and mind heavy with regret. She only hoped it would be their last communication, for she would be too mortified by her own horribleness, to see him ever again.