The Hidden Truth
Chapter 4: glancing beyond the surface
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Draju was a fabulous actor. Slowly he went to the bloody girl, who looked directly into his eyes and was therefore hit again into her pretty face. "So you are behind all this, Kyah Tara? I should have known it from the start! Why are you doing this to me?", Draju said never letting his mask drop.
"I didn't do it Draju! How should I? I came to surrender and not to blast you into oblivion! Just after my arrival the bomb or whatever it had been, exploded!" she told the king defiantly.
The king took one of his giant hands and stroke her cheek, but then hit her face again.
"Even for you it is "King Draju" or your Highness, do you understand?" he told her menacingly.
She wanted to spit into his face, she felt so disgusted by his performance. The Jedi behind this despot seemed just to be decoration because he didn't move or say anything, he just watched the whole happening.
" Now I really wished I had placed that bomb here in your court!" she said in a low and very clear tone. Now she was cuffed into her ribs and she couldn't help. She cried out and dropped to her knees.
"Sergeant, take her into our dungeon! We will later discuss her punishment.", the king stated unmerciful and Kyah could have sworn, that she saw blood thirst in his cold dark eyes.
Now it was Obi-Wan's turn to speak up. "Your Highness, she is just a child and she is wounded, she maybe your prisoner, but her injuries have to be treated!"
The king snorted at this comment. "Knight Kenobi, do you know who she is? She is the leader of the rebels. She is behind all the attempts to assassinate me! She may look innocent, but you are fooled by her appearance! She is a killer and she will suffer for that as well as her fellow rebels will suffer for their actions."
" I am not a killer! " Kyah screamed desperately, but was taken immediately to the dark cellar of the palace. Obi-Wan looked her behind and shook his head unbelieving, what he just saw.
"Your Highness, what will happen to her?", he asked concerned. The king raised his head in order to look Kenobi directly into the eyes. The dark met the blue ones.
"She will confess her deeds, even if I have to apply violent measures. Now that you saw all the aggression against me, will you state my case before the Senate? I don't think, that there will be a peaceful solution.", Draju tried to influence the Jedi, who seem to look through the king.
"We will see!", the young man answered and went off. The confusion in his mind was disturbing him more and more. First he thought the bad feeling was about an attack, but after the explosion, it didn't go away! His feeling were leading him to the girl. He had to talk to her. Maybe he could get a chance now before her hearing or to be more precise before her torture. The poor teenager. He himself had been tortured on missions and he knew how painful and how cruel measures could be.
Kyah was thrown into her cell. She landed on her injuries and took a sharp breath. If she only knew what her expected. She would be tortured, so much was clear, but she wished, that she could prepare for the immense pain she would receive. There was a small cot in the corner, so she limped to it and laid down. Sleep was elusive. In a few hours she would cry for her Daddy and would beg them to stop it. That was the bitter truth. She heard steps in front of her cell. But she didn't try to sit up, she was too tired. She closed her green eyes for a brief moment, when she opened them, the Jedi was hovering over her. She almost cried out!
"What do you want?", she spat out.
"I want to talk to you privately.", he told her in a calmly.
"Yes sure! Only to tell it your precious king afterwards. Don't you see that you are just a toy, a puppet for him?", her voice trailed off and she had to blink back tears…
Tbc…