Several hours after Jacen's crying ended with him finally passing out from exhaustion, he awakened with Danni still sitting in the dining chair, observing him.
"How are you feeling now?" Danni asked.
Jacen sat up and, in a numbed tone, answered, "Terrible."
Danni nodded. She then stood up, picked the dining chair up with her, and then carried it over to Jacen's right, where she set the chair down and resumed her seat. Jacen, meanwhile, shifted so that he was now sitting and facing Danni.
Danni gently placed a hand on Jacen's shoulder and asked, "What do you want to do now?"
His expression understandably downcast. "I should have told you as soon as you contacted me after I was freed. I feel so stupid."
"Told me what?" Danni asked.
"Before I was captured by the Superior Chiss," Jacen explained, "I'd been tortured for, I think, a year under an organization of Sith. I escaped, but before I could make it back to Galactic Alliance or Jedi space to tell anyone, or even put out a transmission explaining my whereabouts, I was, of course, enslaved.
"Now that I'm free, I have to finish what I set out to do all those years ago. I have to let the Jedi know about this Sith organization." He then removed Danni's hand from his shoulder before standing up.
But this time, Danni placed both hands on her shoulders to set him back down to the bed. "Now, wait a minute, Jacen, let's think this through first. Given everything I just showed you, and pardon me if this sounds the least bit insensitive, but I don't think it's gonna be so simple for you to just send a transmission or show up somewhere in Galactic Alliance or Jedi space to explain the presence of this Sith organization."
"Then you can be the one to relay the information," Jacen said evenly. It was as if the pain from what he just learned about the Second Galactic Civil War was already dissipating from his soul; Danni knew, as a matter of fact based on her perception of his presence through the Force, that that definitely wasn't the case.
Danni cocked her head. "Somebody in the Jedi Order might ask where I got my information from."
"Tell them that you don't wanna risk your source's identity," Jacen replied. "But the Jedi have to be on the hunt for this Sith organization as soon as possible, even before I can go public to the known galaxy again."
"And how do you think you should go about revealing yourself to the galaxy?" Danni asked. "How do you think anyone will accept you being here when whoever this Darth Caedus was had assumed your identity? Sure, he died; records of his death are readily available to the general public, but let's be real, it might not be so easy for the galaxy to just buy the story that Caedus was, say, a clone of you."
"Why would that be hard to believe?" Jacen asked. "It's not as if I'm the first person in the galaxy to ever be cloned. After all, there was an entire war waged before my mom and uncle were born that involved clones. Hell, my uncle even fought his own clone one time."
"Yes, but where's the evidence?" Danni asked.
Jacen looked at Danni in askance. "Wouldn't I be the evidence? If Caedus is dead and I'm alive, that means that he was a clone."
"Or you could be his clone," Danni suggested.
"You know that's not true, Danni."
"I know it's not, but again, without any hard evidence, people could think of any number of crazy things, like maybe you're the clone, or an imposter, or you're Darth Caedus who's been risen from the dead; with how mystical the Jedi are, people can think that, and that's gonna make things a little complicated in the law of the Galactic Alliance. Your identity as Jacen Solo, and not Caedus, has to be a hundred percent validated, at least through official channels, if not the court of public opinion.
"And speaking of public opinion, you're gonna have to find a way to clear your name, and I don't just mean making sure that you've officially proven that you were never Caedus and that you never committed any of his crimes."
"What are you, my talent agent now?" Jacen asked sardonically. "You make it sound like you have a plan to get my career as a holostar back on track after making some bad vids. I thought your speciality was in hard science, not social science."
"Well, I've picked up a few things on Zonama Sekot that went beyond studying its ecology and environmental structures," Danni said.
"Yeah, like what?"
Danni pursed her lips before shaking her head. "Doesn't matter right now. What does matter is how we proceed from here. I agree that the Jedi should be made well aware of this Sith organization ASAP. By the way, do you think they could have been responsible for Caedus?"
"What?" Jacen asked.
"If we're to assume that Caedus was a clone of you, do you think it's possible that this Sith organization was responsible for bringing him to life in the first place by harvesting your DNA?" Danni elaborated.
"I... I guess it's possible," Jacen surmised. "It would explain why they kept me in captivity and tortured me without asking me any questions. But why keep me alive for so long after harvesting my DNA for the clone? Surely, the reason would go beyond mere sadism, of torturing a Jedi for the hell of..."
He trailed off as the reason hit him. "By the Force... that's why he was taking my memories!"
"Who was taking your memories?" Danni asked.
"The Master of the Sith organization," Jacen said. "I don't know his name, but while I was in captivity, he had been melding with my mind to take memories from me. Not that I lost them, but it was as if he had been... copying them."
Danni's expression was drawn in horror. "If Caedus was a clone of you... then this Sith Master must have been transferring the memories he copied from you into this clone."
"And no one among even my family would have known the difference," Jacen concluded with the same horror was on Danni's face.
"Do you know where these Sith are, Jacen?" Danni asked hurriedly. "If the Jedi are to be notified of them, they have to know where they are!"
Jacen opened his mouth as if to answer, only to promptly to shut it again in frustration. "I had the system coordinates... in the navicomp of my ship, the Solo Quest."
Danni hesitated before she asked, "Where is it now?"
Jacen drew in a breath through his nose before he replied with, "I guess that's a question we have to ask the Superior Chiss, isn't it?" The frustration was evident in his tone.