My hands are chained to a wall. Hands are on me. They won't get off, won't get away. It won't get out, it won't go away, and it keeps going and going and going, and I'm bleeding, and it's already happened to me before isn't once enough? He isn't listening. He isn't stopping. Why isn't he stopping?
"You can't deny it. They aren't looking for you. You can look with the force, and you won't find your master and your precious Luminara searching for you." He is expecting me to use the force when a ysalamiri perches on a nutrient frame inches from my head. What?
I am coughing up blood. And he is finally stepping away.
"The upside to a female apprentice, my dear Shanti," that man is saying, "Is that you can create an heir much easier. Only a true woman of power can carry a Sith lord to term, and only a very powerful woman can carry more than one. I will be surprised if you survive this pregnancy, my dear." He pulled his cloak up and closed the door to the back room. My legs cannot hold me anymore, and I am dangling by my wrists that are chained to the roof. I am hurting too much to sleep. And they aren't looking for me.
They probably don't care. They are probably still on Maix, or maybe they've left for Xiam already…
'Shanti, don't you dare start thinking like that,' I am hearing a voice say. I am taking a deep breath and putting my feet back under me. My wrists will break if I keep that up for much longer.
"You are right, Master Fay," I am saying. "I must keep up hope."
The door is opening again. Master's Fay's presence is vanishing.
The lighting is hurting me again.
"Look for yourself, Shanti," he is saying. The ysalamiri had vanished. "They are playing a game of catch. You see? They don't care about you. They won't come for you." I am shaking my head.
"That isn't true, and I will never let you corrupt me to the dark side, Sith," I am saying, and I am spitting at him. The lighting is moving in me again. My voice is coming back strongly and I am screaming, and he is walking up to me again and I am seeing white skin and I don't want-
And everything is going black. I know it won't last. Soon the black will be gone. I will be defenseless, again. But right now I want to stay in the black.
