The Hidden Truth

Chapter 5: a door to sincerity

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Obi-Wan was lost for words. He raised one brow looked deep into her green, honest eyes and opened his mouth to speak. But he couldn't  sort out his thoughts. So a simple:" What did you say?", left his lips. He knew that the king didn't reveal everything, but was he really a puppet of a conspiracy? He didn't know who he should believe, though the girl seemed to be sincere with him.

"I said that you were just a tool, that helped this…this tyrant to secure his dictatorship. Do you know how many dead bodies cover his path? Do you know, what he does with his opponents?", she sobbed. The Jedi tried to look away, but a sharp and commanding tone brought his eyes back to hers.

"Look at me! I just came to surrender to protect my supporters. Now I am accused of placing a bomb in the court and of trying to kill the regent. What are they thinking? I don't understand anything anymore! Neither I did it, nor my fellow people, but we will suffer the consequences. I bet, that he organized this scenario for you!", she said disgustedly.

Obi-Wan couldn't help, but there was something in this girl, that connected the man with the teenager. He kneeled next to her cot and tried to figure out, what she just had said.

"So why do you think am I here?", Kenobi asked carefully.

"You are only here to back up the king's lie about his opposition, that we are a threat for him. He wants you to confirm his observations and then the senate allows him to take action against us, to hunt us down, to kill everyone of us until we are just a legend for the frightened and starving people of this planet." ,she said with a haunted look in her eyes, "I will make a good example for his demonstration of his power. With my death he will scare the people off. He will make me suffer for my knowledge of him.", she added.

" If I find a prove for your accusation of king Draju, I will help you.", Obi-Wan stood up and left the cell. He didn't want to let his emotion rule his behaviour, so he left, before anything could happen.

Guards entered the dungeon and he Obi-Wan knew, that the girl would be brought to the king. He hurried to the throne room in order to witness her hearing or to be able to prevent a deadly torture. Maybe he could help her with the force to ban a bit of her pain.

Arriving at the room, he saw a small door leading to another chamber. He stepped it and was came to a halt. There were instruments and machines only built for making prisoners suffer. It was the torture chamber. And in the centre of it a teenager was chained to some kind of stocks. Now Kenobi decided it would be better to hide himself and listen to the conversation between the ruler and the young woman. He used the force to cover himself and to detect the feelings of the people in the room. The female rebel was frightened but the expression on her face was stoic and didn't let any emotion through her tight façade. The king was full of hate…

" So Kyah, here we meet again! Don't worry I'm not going to kill you today! I just want to be in pain and to shut up. It is the same pattern your father went through!" the ugly man said with great expectation in his voice. Obi-Wan sharpened his senses, this was going to be very interesting. One man dressed in red joined Draju his guards and his "guest". He was also very short, but powerful built. His hands very enormous and strong. A whip and other instruments were attached to his belt.

"Do you know, my precious niece, that this is the same man, who tortured your father?" Kyah went mad she tried to kick the evil man in front of her, but her chains made it impossible for her to reach him.

Obi-Wan was stunned. So she was his niece, their were relatives? 

"Now that you will die very soon I will explain you every painful detail, why your father, king Bronco, had to die!", Draju spat the name out, so much did he hate his brother.

"You were his only child and female! So you never would be able to rule the planet, which meant I would be the rightful heir of this kingdom! But your father the cunning old devil imposed a reform onto the law. He didn't trust me, what a wise decision. When I found out, what he did, I went to him and we had an argument. He showed me the paper, that made you the heir of his planet. Well, I'm afraid I had to torture and to kill him and to lock  the evidences of the law away.", the despot said in an insane tone.

If Obi-Wan hadn't leaned against something, he would have been collapsed by now. Revelations over revelations. The girl spoke the truth. He would help her. "Come, what may!", he thought and turned his attention back to the people in the room.

Tbc…