* Feathered Deception *
Vergere stood erect and tall as Warmaster Tsavong Lah and the Supreme Cleric entered the room, but respectfully kept her eyes low to the ground. Her long hidden secret had been revealed the day she and the Warmaster went to see the Jeedai girl, Jaina Solo. Deep inside, the female creature felt betrayed; then again, Jaina must have felt the same way when she told her master she was awake.
*I had no choice. * She reminded herself. *If she only knew... *
Breaking her thoughts, the Warmaster barked an order for her to look upon his scarred face. Without speaking, she kept her gaze and expressions blank, though she knew what was coming to her.
"Vergere," Tsavong Lah breathed her name in a way that greeted her respect with satisfaction only to be shattered by Yonghai's menacing voice.
"Is what the human female charged you of true? Is it true you to hold the same mystical heresy as the Jeedai inside your very body?"
She had anticipated this question to bestow her, and had prepared herself to meet the questions with truth. "Presumably that is what it seems to be." Well, most of it anyway.
"Why did you not tell anyone of this before?" the priest pressured.
"It was not my place to speak of it until now. Nor was I asked that I too."
"This is true. You have been loyal to us even after your mistress's death, aiding in this cleansing. She has done nothing wrong, though now we know this information you will be expected to tell us everything of this power." His voice was terse and threatening. "If you refuse to… well, there is no need in bringing false futures now, is there?" Yonghai nodded towards the Warmaster and they both left her in her rooms.
Narrowing her beady eyes at the valve door, a tear fell from the corner of her eye. *False futures indeed, Yonghai. Through the Force, I can sense your future coming to a near end. *
Vergere stood erect and tall as Warmaster Tsavong Lah and the Supreme Cleric entered the room, but respectfully kept her eyes low to the ground. Her long hidden secret had been revealed the day she and the Warmaster went to see the Jeedai girl, Jaina Solo. Deep inside, the female creature felt betrayed; then again, Jaina must have felt the same way when she told her master she was awake.
*I had no choice. * She reminded herself. *If she only knew... *
Breaking her thoughts, the Warmaster barked an order for her to look upon his scarred face. Without speaking, she kept her gaze and expressions blank, though she knew what was coming to her.
"Vergere," Tsavong Lah breathed her name in a way that greeted her respect with satisfaction only to be shattered by Yonghai's menacing voice.
"Is what the human female charged you of true? Is it true you to hold the same mystical heresy as the Jeedai inside your very body?"
She had anticipated this question to bestow her, and had prepared herself to meet the questions with truth. "Presumably that is what it seems to be." Well, most of it anyway.
"Why did you not tell anyone of this before?" the priest pressured.
"It was not my place to speak of it until now. Nor was I asked that I too."
"This is true. You have been loyal to us even after your mistress's death, aiding in this cleansing. She has done nothing wrong, though now we know this information you will be expected to tell us everything of this power." His voice was terse and threatening. "If you refuse to… well, there is no need in bringing false futures now, is there?" Yonghai nodded towards the Warmaster and they both left her in her rooms.
Narrowing her beady eyes at the valve door, a tear fell from the corner of her eye. *False futures indeed, Yonghai. Through the Force, I can sense your future coming to a near end. *