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Nox was nowhere to be seen. Shepard couldn't believe she would wander off in the middle of a mission. Garrus lost track of her too. It was not as if she could just disappear into thin air. John was forced take either the strange former consultant or Ashley along. He chose Nox so he could keep her in sight and not risk a second Feros. Images of the dead Colonists came to his mind, each corpse baring the deadly scars of the woman's energy blade across their bodies, some missing limbs. The images seemed to assault his mind taking him back even farther, back to Elysium.
If he was to be honest with himself, having her along on Noveria was probably a recipe for an intergalactic incident. Of course, now he was wrapped up in an investigation trying to convince one shady businessman to rat out another. The Turian, Lorek Quin, needed a disk of "proof" in order for him to rat out some Salarian asshole. That was about the time Nox disappeared. Dammit, they were walking into a Security filled lobby one man down. He would make sure to reprimand her. Could he even do that? She wasn't Alliance, or Council. How did Nihilus manage to even control her?
The door to the elevator opened and Shepard expected to see some ERCS guards in their drab blue armor waiting to stop them while their cronies tore up the place searching for Lorek's evidence. Damn Turian, Shepard thought. When the doors finished opening the guards he thought would be stationed there, were lying on the ground. A human woman breathing her last queasy breathes, a sliced orange scar across her chest. The Turian was dead, his head lying next to him staring up at Shepard with dead eyes. Shepard heard shouts and carefully walked along the wall reaching the stairs seeing the offices above and hearing gun shots and screams. The strange whirring of an energy blade cut through the violence as well.
With Garrus watching his six, he climbed the stairs only to find more bodies. All of them had looks of shock and fear etched into their faces. All of them shared wounds like their comrades at the door save for those that were contorted like they were electrocuted. More shouts came from Quin's office. Shepard didn't hesitate and ran to the room. Inside he saw a female guard standing in the middle of the room, not moving. A sizzling orange line graced her neck. He looked to see Nox. The masked woman was bent over digging through Lorek's desk.
"Here it is," she mused. She hummed a tune while turning to see him and Garrus. "Ah, there you are. I found the disk. Let's head back, shall we?" She moved over and playfully shoved the guard. The dead woman fell over and her body made a dull thud as she hit the floor, her head rolling to the corner.
"Why in the hell would you come here alone?!" Shepard kept his tone level, doing his best not to growl. She tilted her head and looked the body of the dead guard.
She chuckled, "Because, I was getting bored."
"Bored?" Shepard said in a mixture of shock and horror.
"HEY! You're going to pay for killing my men!" A very angry feminine voice roared out.
"We have company," Garrus crouched and leveled his sniper rifle. "It's the human ERCS Captain. The one who we almost got in a fight with at the gate."
Nox strutted over to peek through the door and called out. "How adorable. You and your little Mercenary Company." Nox pulled herself back as sniper bolt almost took her head off.
"What are you doing?!" He growled.
"Having fun. I have been too long without it. Killing dumb Colonists doesn't quite make the cut." Nox rubbed her hands together in excitement. "Now, let us go kill some mercs. Murder and Mayhem Await."
Shepard took just a bit too long to process what the psychopath said. When he reached out to grab her, she was all ready out the door. Blaster bolts flew into the room. Shepard and Garrus were forced to take cover as the walls of the office opposite the door exploded in a torrent of concrete and plasma. As quickly as the blaster bolts appeared, they stopped. Both looked into the hallway. His training prevented his jaw from dropping. The mercs were all dead save for one. The captain who was on her ass scrambling away while Nox slowly walked forward.
"I give up, you can't kill me! Alliance protocol. Prisoners of war and all that!" She cried out desperately. Shepard watched as Nox looked across the bodies, each with a glowing slice or hole marking their fatal blow.
"War, to describe this as even a mere skirmish would be an insult to skirmishes or even a common fist fight. No, this was no war, this was a slaughter. So, die like the nerf you are."
"NO!" Shepard and the ERCS captain both screamed as the Consultant held out her hand and made a fist.
A moment later the blonde captain's head turned with a sickening crack.
Shepard ran forward and before he knew what he was doing, he threw a punch at the woman's creepy mask as she turned back to him. His fist stopped an inch from her face. That wasn't all that stopped. Shepard couldn't move. Then he found himself flying back and hitting the wall hard enough to see stars. Nox still stood there. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Garrus frozen in place. Nox walked up to him.
"Never attempt such an act again. Are we clear?" There was an edge to her voice. It sounded like she was holding in a lot of anger.
Shepard found his mouth able to move. He didn't like this, and wanted to reach out and strangle the monster in front of him. He railed against his pride and replied, "Crystal."
Whatever power was holding him up, let go and he fell. He landed awkwardly, but still managed to stay up.
"Now if I may, perhaps it would be best to take the evidence to Lorek Quinn." Shepard didn't respond as Nox turned and walked away. Garrus walked up to him.
"Where the hell did you find her? Spirits! First Feros and now this. I'd put a blaster bolt in her head, but..."
"She read your intent."
"Something like that." Garrus affirmed.
"No eezo field, Strange reports from the crew, and Dr. Chakwas even mentioned something about not being able to remember what the woman looked like under that mask. Only that she was human. It explains a lot. I think we are dealing with a telepath and a telekinetic."
Garrus nodded. "Think we could take her down?"
Shepard shook his head. His words held an edge. "I don't know. I really don't know. Not without enough firepower to level a kilometer of hard terrain."
Shepard moved toward the exit where the Consultant waited patiently for them.
"Plotting my demise." Her tone was lighthearted like she knew exactly what they were talking about. She probably did know what they were thinking.
Shepard shook his head and began the elevator ride down.
It took a little convincing, but Lorek did testify to bring down Analasis. The crooked Salarian got what he deserved and was imprisoned. He briefly wondered if Salarian's served shorter periods of jail time due to their shorter lifespans. It was a thought for another day.
It turned out there were more surprises for them in the vehicle bay. Matriarch Benezia left some gifts in the form of a few Geth troopers. They were easily dispatched. Most of them fell to Nox's energy blade. The rest of the team was piled into the Mako. It was all hands-on-deck this time. This secret facility rubbed him wrong.
"Garrus told me about what happened with Nox. Not good that one." Shepard raised an eyebrow as he looked to the Krogan in the seat next to passenger seat next to him. The big Krogan looked a bit cramped in the passenger seat but still fit if barely.
"You know her?"
Wrex seemed to search his memory. "Human's tend to look the same even one as distinguished as her, though I recall an incident five years ago." Wrex shook his head.
"Any details worth talking about." Shepard seen the Krogan shake his head once more.
"Not entirely sure yet. That day was hectic. I got clipped by a skycar while walking into a noodle shop so things are fuzzy. Hit my head hard." Wrex rubbed his chin. "I remember… hmm… a lot of lightning. It sounds stupid when I say it out loud. I'd still be wary. I get the same feeling from her that I got from Saren."
"You knew Saren?"
"Nah, I've seen 'im from afar. I'll tell about it as we watch all these Geth get shredded by Garrus and your poor driving skills." Shepard couldn't help but smirk while the Mako thudded loudly with the sound of another Geth unit getting crushed beneath the wheels. Wrex regaled Shepard with a story about how he worked a job for Saren. How the Krogan narrowly avoided death by not taking his pay and getting out of Dodge while he could. The old Krogan's instincts were right as every merc who took their pay ended up dead after. It was a good story. It took his mind of the masked psycho in the back.
The trip to the Peak 14 went by quick with Garrus and his keen Turian eyes taking out Geth turrets along the pass from afar. When they reached the facility, it was buried inside a mountain. This is when the real fight began. Blasting through and ramming the gate with the Mako. The team piled out. Nox was the last and casually strode out and over to a tall crate to take cover. Shepard shook his head. Cocky bitch.
The deeper they got into the facility the more beat up things got like there was another firefight prior. Light's flickered, windows were cracked, and combat boots echoed of the metal walkway. It was strange. Then Nox felt it, a presence in the Force. Far away for now. Caged and full of sorrow. Kaidan, who had taken point, stopped and dropped to one knee. He held up a fist stopping the others behind her. Shepard moved up and had a silent conversation with the Biotic. Nox could still feel his bitter anger at their confrontation still resound through his being.
After a few seconds they moved on into the next room which opened up wider and was flooded with snow. The windows had massive holes in them and letting snow from the storm flood in. Their boots crunched as they walked. That is when they saw it. A massive spider thing with tentacle limbs and a bad attitude.
Nox did the most sensible thing, flinging her lightsaber at the beast. She hated creepy crawlies. The Tombs of the Ancient Sith Lords on Korriban were filled with them. Nox never quite got over how the small insects crawled around the tomb and over her skin. Memories surfaced of other Sith Acolytes waltzing through the tombs while a young former slave hid in between columns as they passed by. All the while various insects crawled across her pale skin as she silently whimpered waiting for the other more well-off acolytes to leave.
The others opened fire as well pulling Nox out of her head. Some smaller spider-things tried to creep up to them, but Tali's shotgun and Wrex's boots took care of them. After the fight Shepard was about to give orders, but Wrex bellowed out.
"Rachni! This is what that Turian bastard is creating! He is dead! Too many of my people died to exterminate these things!" The Krogan took off shotgunning any new Rachni drones who got in his path.
Garrus muttered.
"Well, this is not good."
"The charging Krogan or the thought to be extinct spiders," Ashley frowned.
"Both," Garrus admitted.
"Let's move out, we need to make sure Wrex doesn't get out flanked." Shepard ordered. Nox shook her head as they moved out. Trying to steel herself against the creepy crawlies ahead. She did her best to still her shaking hands, but it was a fruitless battle.
Turned out Wrex was very good at killing the bugs. The rest of the team mostly just kept the flanking Rachni from overwhelming the Krogan. Nox would crush any Rachni that got too close to her or the group with the Force. It wasn't long before they cleared out this area. After restarting the tram that led to the other half of the facility using an oddly familiar puzzle, they set off. In the other half of the Peak 15 Facility they found survivors. Liara and Kaidan stayed behind to help with defending the civvies still trapped in the facility when the Rachni broke out.
As they went down into the Hot Lab's where the nest was located. "Fine, let's get down there and get back to hunting Asari Matriarchs."
Being in a tightly packed elevator, Nox could feel the tension. Shepard must have quickly briefed the others on Nox's abilities. Ashley, the schlutta had taken a keen interest on always being behind her. Nox would have been flattered if she had not sensed the soldier's intent. Ashley always kept her rifle loosely pointed in the Sith's direction. The Dark Lord of the Sith smiled, it was nice to see Shepard's crew take the initiative now and again. Fruitless as such actions where.
"I am not letting any of these bugs leave here alive." Wrex growled.
The door opened. They found not a horde of angry bugs, but one man sitting on a bench with an injured leg.
He spoke in a strange accent. He sounded like a Zeltron minus the pink skin. "Ah, help is here and appreciated, but I have lost too much blood. Take my codes and begin the neutron purge." He held out a hand with a datapad in it. Shepard reached to grab it, however a tentacled talon punctured the man's chest from the back. Things went haywire. Wrex charged the Rachni and the datapad went flying after the Rachni shook the dead body of this talon to combat Wrex. It flew, almost falling down an air vent. Shepard leaped and caught it. Soon the room started to flood with Rachni forcing them into the far room on the other side of the chamber.
Their guns barked with fire. Nox ignited her blade began cutting through the horde using the Force to slow the Rachni advance. It was effective at keeping the horde from overwhelming them. Nox looked over to see Tali using an Omni-flame thrower and Wrex was even backing up, taking careful shots with his shotgun. Shepard was the last through the door with Garrus hitting the shut button.
Shepard handed the Quarian the pad. "Plug this in and start the countdown." Tali looked uncertainly at the countdown console and the door behind her.
"How will we get out?" There was an edge to her voice, reminding everyone how young she was.
"I'll think of something." Nox was impressed at how convincing Shepard was. If she didn't have the Force to sense his emotions, she might have believed him too.
Nox allowed the Quarian to pass and do her job.
Nox looked around and felt the pressure of uncertainty in all the other sqaud mates emotions weigh upon her. There was no real way out other than through a horde of angry spiders. Nox shuddered mentally. It was like a nightmare. Luckily for her this was a nightmare she had the ability to escape from.
She went to the door. She felt out with her senses. The entire room beyond was packed to the brim with those things. She sensed their fear and animalistic urges. There was once a deeper intelligence connected to them. It wasn't hard to sense. The creatures practically called out for the presence throughout the Force with their fears.
"Countdown is set to two minutes Tali called out." Liara and Kaidan were up with civvies trapped above. They would be able to notify authorities what happened here if they all died. They would not die here. Nox figured it was time to show off some of the best weapons in her arsenal. A rare occasion indeed. The Krogan stood next to her having a hard time containing his bloodrage. Nox looked to him.
She smiled. "Would you stand back? I have a way to get us out of here." She applied the Force to his mind. Calming the krogan down enough for him to listen. He shifted and took a step back, not one more.
Nox turned around and called for the Squads attention. "Everyone stay behind me. If you fall back, I will not be able to save you. Nor would I really care to." She smirked.
Shepard moved over to her. "What do you think your doing?"
"Getting us out of here." She let her eyes flash with purple force energy briefly. Shepard took a step back. No doubt not wanting to end up a wall decoration again.
Nox smiled. "Now, I have bugs to kill." She opened the door, pressing the button with the force. She ignited her lightsaber. She was glad she used a single blade now. It hummed with purple light. She growled, seeing those creepy bug aliens rushing toward her. She summoned a storm of Force lightning. Lighting arced all around the room. It started frying many of the creatures, making the smaller swarmers pop as the lightning passed through the horde.
She moved forward and her sword of violet light dancing around her in her left hand. Lightning sprung from her right hand. The Dark Lord could sense the others moving closely behind her. She heard the Fragment chuckle in the background as she carved up the horde.
When she reached the elevator, she felt invigorated she turned around to see the carnage she had done, only to be rushed into the elevator by the team. They were all here and Nox debated on whether or not to push Ashley back into the room with the Force. Instead she turned to Shepard. Ashley wasn't worth the trouble. Perhaps an opportunity to use her as a sacrificial pawn would turn up down the road.
"No need to thank me or anything."
"What the hell was that?" Shepard growled.
The elevator shook a moment as the neutron purge kicked in.
"Power," Nox felt Ashley's weapon raise and the woman's intent to shoot her in the back. Should have killed the bitch. Nox turned to destroy the soldier. In burst of Force speed Nox pushed Ashley against the wall holding her up by the throat using the force to augment her strength. She wanted to use her bare hands this time. Nox spied her old sniper rifle on Ashley's back. "Too think I gave you that rifle."
"Enough," Shepard shouted. Nox turned her head still holding the choking soldier.
She grinned, "Or What? You'll reprimand me? You'll try to kill me? I save your lives and this is how you return the favor? A shot to the back?"
Shepard held a note of less then professional concern for the woman currently choking in Nox's grip. Nox grinned and let the woman go. Ashley collapsed, coughed before quickly getting up, and held herself in a combat stance, though Nox could still hear the woman's wheezing. The Soldier did her best to stand tall. The Elevator opened and the space they were in filled with blaster fire.
As it turned out the Security teams had gotten orders from Benezia to kill the Spectre and his team, interrupting the one-sided elevator stand-off. So when the doors opened a whole mess of blaster fire poured in. Nox turned and held up a hand and the bolts stopped mid flight. She flicked her hand and sent the bolts back killing all the soldiers in the room.
Nox growled, walking out into the entry room and down the halls. Shepard's squad was all but forgotten. She held her lightsaber in her left hand and sent waves of energy with her right toward any soldiers she saw. She was far too angry to play around. She reveled in her hatred, and many bodies fell in her wake. She passed a hall but she felt the presence of Liara and Kaidan inside. She let Shepard deal with any scraps. It was the least he could do for his little soldier's transgression. At least the alien member's were smart enough not to challenge her. The Sith shook her head. Should've killed the sctlutta, she thought.
These security forces, inept as they were, had interrupted her. That merited their deaths not that they had known that. No one in this reality knew what a Sith Lord was and that any non-sensitive beings were privileged to exist in her presence. Privileges could be revoked. As the last security guard fell, the Turian woman's body twitching while her head rolled into the small trench off the main walkway.
She looked up and saw the sign marked Science Labs. Nox felt out with her senses. She felt the presence the Rachni drones called to. There was another. An Asari if the thoughts were any indication. The alien was fighting against something in her mind. Nox recoiled feeling the same screeching sound she found when she looked into Saren's head. She blocked it out immediately. It was very simple for her to do so. Nox had a thought. She opened the door and continued to the primary room.
There stood a Matriarch atop a ramp to the examination tube which held the Rachni queen she sensed. It wasn't like the Thorian. It didn't have a mountain of untapped power. It had only a minimal connection. Enough to sent out orders and direct drones from distance far beyond it natural pheromone range. A very useful trait.
Nox looked to Benezia and more particularly the Asari's boby in approval. It was hard not to. Beautiful, and well-endowed, the Asari held an air of nobility. Nox knew there culture was a so called e-democracy, but it was the Matriarchs who held the power. Nox shook her head and realized she didn't have time to admire the beautiful asari. Looking into Asari's eyes Nox saw not a calculated Stateswoman as Benezia was known to be. She saw only a pawn, a puppet of the Reapers. That didn't explain what or who the enigmatic beings were. Benezia spoke, drawing Nox out of her thoughts. "The Anathema. Saren warned me of you. You are unnatural and the Reapers have marked you."
"Good," Nox smiled under her mask. "Then I won't have to go looking for them."
"Such Arrogance. You know not the power you have set yourself against." Nox tilted her head a bit. She had a feeling that she wasn't speaking to Benezia. Well not entirely.
Nox chucked, "And you have no idea what your masters have set themselves against."
"Mother," Liara rounded the corner out of breath, despite that the young asari did not break stride. Shepard and co were not far behind Liara. Nox turned back to Benezia. Nox read the woman again. Her daughter's presence seemed to bring on a rage in the reaper controlled part. Before the Matriarch cold begin to speak. Nox used the force... to pick up Liara. The young Asari clawed at her throat. Nox sent out a wave of pleasure toward the Benezia. Telling her in esence that Nox had no qualms about killing her.
"Nox, drop her!"
"Not until we have what we came here for." Come on, you old schutta, break lose. I am holding your daughter's life. Fight like my mother did for Ekky and Irina. The Sith found herself annoyed, but the Matriarch did manage to break free for a moment.
A massive wave of dark energy broke free from the Matriarch and lashed out. Nox dissipated it with ease. Nox dropped Liara.
Benezia huffed and growled at Nox. The indoctrination Saren had put her through returning full force. Nox reached out and grabbed the Matriarch. The woman screamed and railed against the unseen bindings that held her. Nox reached into her mind, tearing away at the reaper influence despite the screeching wail she heard when she tried to invade Seran's minds returning. Nox searched the matriarchs memories. Benezia thought Saren was responsible. Who flew the reaper ship. Would they give some random agent such a powerful tool. If no reaper was behind this then...
There a mental jolt to Nox's psyche. She found herself standing in a fancy house. No, this was an estate in a city. The architecture was neither Imperial or Republic. Thessia, the name came to mind quickly. Nox turned around to see a balcony overlooking beautiful gardens and a great city beyond. Standing on that balcony was Benezia in a beautiful yellow dress. Walking out and looking out at the city. They stared for how long, not one knew.
"This was your sanctuary?" Nox asked.
The Matriarch nodded.
"Pretty."
"You didn't come here for pleasantries." Benezia stated. Nox could still feel part of herself completing the wipe of the Reaper influence.
"No, I came to find knowledge."
"Thank you for freeing me."
"I had ulterior motives."
Benezia let out snort. "No doubt. I am grateful regardless."
Before Nox could relax. Benezia slapped the Sith.
"That is for hurting my daughter." The anger was muted. The lack of control, being reined in by lifetime of diplomatic studies.
Nox smiled, "Glad to see you have some fight in you."
The fire faded from Benezia's eyes. "Not for long. I fear it is taking everything I got to bring you here to give you a final message and the knowledge Seran sought. The Mu relay." Benezia held out a hand and Nox took it. She felt the flow of information in the form of images."
Nox turned, about to leave before turning back. "I have reopened the pathways in your brain. It will take time, but you will be hole again."
Benezia smiled, "Such compassion from someone so lacking in it."
Nox shook her head, "I know what it like to have a darkness pervade your every thought." A dark wavering shadow appeared behind Nox and Benezia's eyes widened. "If you die. Hopefully it will be one your feet rather then trapped like a gizka."
"What's a gizka?"
Nox chuckled and left the woman's mind. Returning to the world she let go of Benezia, who fell to her knees. Nox looked around as a massive firefight issued around her. Many of the Asari Commandos in their skin-tight leather battlesuits sworn to Benezia were firing on Sherard and his team. Who for the most part were doing well. Nox looked to her side to see Liara crawling toward her mother. Banezia lay there, practically comatose. When Liara got to her mother. Benezia had enough energy to mutter.
"Little Wing," Was all the Matriarch said before fading into unconsciousness. Nox frowned and looked on the battlefield. She watched the battle before without lifting a finger the remaining five commandos rose up in the air. Before snapping their necks. All eyes in the room turned to her.
"We're done here." Nox walked out the room.
"What of that? Garrus asked pointing at the Rachni Queen. Nox returned her gaze to the tank with the Queen. She reached out to the beast in the Force. It sung a beautiful and sorrowful song. It sung of it captivity. It's slavery to scientists and being forced to watch her children call out for and not be able to answer. The Dark Lord of the Sith felt a kinship with the beast. She used the force to flip a switch releasing the beast. It screeched in horror as it was consumed by the acid tanks connected to the tank. It would never be a slave again or more importantly a tool used against the Sith Lord again. There were some protests, but Wrex seemed more exuberant. Liara sat bubbering over her mother's unconscious body. Nox left the room to wait by the tram. She didn't say a word as she waited.
She mulled over the information she had gathered today. Specifically the Indoctrination the Reapers were capable of. So being on the ship converted anyone to the Reaper cause even a spy. fascinating, at the same time horrifying. To become a slave so utterly. Nox shivered. This was a technology she didn't want anyone to possess in her reality. You are correct in that assessment, The Fragment muttered.
"Said the man who wants to consume the galaxy." Nox bit back.
The Fragment chuckled, What the reaper's do is strip the life away, there would be nothing of substance for me to consume.
Nox resolved herself to destroy the technology whenever she had the chance. Shepard and co returned with Benezia and a Volus of all people. The Tram took off when Kaidan, the last to board, entered.
Dreary was a poor description for the Dark Temple on Dromund Kaas. It was a fear-filled, rage inducing miasma of Hate and black stone. Lana felt right at home as she walked through the massive structure built by the ancient Sith. Her destination was at the head of the table so to speak. His Tomb was at the end of the temple on the top floor. Aloysius Kallig was a footnote in history some would say. A failure in the eyes of the Sith. The regard for Tulak Hord the Sith held blinded many to Kallig's power. If this man could pose a threat to the Greatest Sith to ever live, then the Siths' disregard of him was a mistake.
The tomb was mostly empty save for a couple of Artifacts and pieces from Darth Zash's ritual lay strewn about. Lana looked around. There was a small sense of fear in the back of her throat. When Ixati spoke of Kallig, she spoke of him like a father figure. Considering IXati's real father was a bitter all but castrated Enchani male who liked to rape women. Compared to that, Aloysius was a much better substitute Lana supposed. Strong and concise, a real man.
She called out to the darkness, "Aloysius Kallig, I am Lana Beniko. I have come to seek your help on how to bring back IXati."
She wheeled feeling a glow behind her. She had seen the man Ixati spoke highly of before. His picture was in some of Darth Arkus' texts. He was completely armored and underneath the armor were signs of tightly corded muscles and no doubt many scars from battles waged. The Sith Lord wore his signature mask. Lana never liked that thing Ixati wore too much for her liking. It always hid such a pretty face.
"You are, are you?" The ghost chuckled as he walked around her with a savage grace. "What could an old apparition like myself, do that you cannot?"
"I think you could slip in between the barrier that has divided me from her, and perhaps carry a message."
Aloysius Kallig stopped and stared into Lana's eyes finding the determination that made her able to walk into an Ancient Sith Lord's tomb. Her fear was not of the ghost himself, it was losing Ixati. Aloysius saw this and turned to regard the tomb behind him.
"I can see why the Daughter of my Daughters fell for you. You claim she is alive. In this other realm?" Aloysius tone was stern, but there was a sorrow there.
"Yes, and she needs your help. I thought she was your legacy."
Kallig snorted. "She was, but I have an obligation to watch over her brother and sister as well. I will admit she brought our family name back out of the gutter. A way of thumbing my nose at Tulak even after death. However, Erikira is with child. So is Kolf's wife. Both will be force-sensitive and may need my guidance one day." He turned back to Lana. "I cannot help you. I am not sure I could. I am powerful, yes, but I find my resolve tested. I will not make this trip a meaningless one. If you wish for help, seek out the one who is torn between Light and Dark made whole again? He has a debt to pay for his arrogance."
"Revan, IXati might just refuse his help out of spite."
Kallig chuckled, "At least he can pass on your message. The least he can do for dooming the galaxy is become a realm hopping message boy."