Emperor's Hand

Palpatine smiled as the little girl cried. "Mummy!" she gasped. Reaching out a hand, he gripped the back of her shirt with the Force.

"Come here, little one." He said. She glanced at him and screamed looking away. Angered, he shot her with a mild bolt of lightning. "I do not need you all that much," he told her, though she wasn't very old, not be able to understand much.

"If you upset me, I will kill you." He sent an image of her dying mother into her head.

She stopped crying.

"Smart," said the Emperor.

~ I was sent to Corellia. It's okay here, but I think my job sucks! I have to track down this kid named Kian Tonah. He's supposed to be an acceptable person to be a stormtrooper. I have no idea where to find him.

Jedispawn! I spent too much time writing in this damn journal!

Lord Palpatine says it's good to write in this to record it. He even says I can hate him if he opens me to the Force.

I don't hate him. He is like a father. I am glad I have him instead of that Force-cursed creature, my real father.

Instead I hate Skywalker.

Stars curse him. Lord Palpatine has told me he will be the downfall of the Empire unless I kill him someday.

I don't see why he doesn't have Vader do it. Let that human hunk of machinery kill the boy, that's what I say. It doesn't hurt if you're mostly metal.

Jedispit! I nearly forgot! Kian. Force-cursed little worm, why doesn't he just come to Courtscant?

Goodbye for now.

Mara

Today when I was looking for Kian, I saw a dark-haired, dark-eyed, boy with a crooked smile. By the Force, that boy was hot!

I was sitting in a Cantina, waiting for Kian to show, because I was know he likes Oshar's Canting and I saw the guy. I, of course, stared at him. When he saw me, he winked.

When I turned around to see him leaving! Jedispit! I'm going to be killed if Palpatine finds out I let Kian go.

Mara

By all the star-dragons ever spawned! I saw him again today. Stars curse him, he would make a good stormtropper.

I saw Kian, also.

I shot him with a stun-blast (I bet the on-lookers were surprised to see a fifteen year old with a blaster). When he awoke, he was on the Emperor's Hand.

I have my own ship. The Force, I love it.

Kian, stars curse him, thinks me attractive and tried to kiss me. I, of course, punched him in the eye. He swore in Rodian. I told him, in Bothan, what he could do to himself before he ever tried kissing me again.

He swore again. I knocked him out.

Again. Stars damn him.

Mara