When dawn arrived the Ashara woke up to find her new friend had already began the day with a hot beverage, she quickly brewed her favorite herbal tea and when they had both drank their fill the two set out to the Jedi Enclave in relative silence. While she would have liked some conversation during the walk that would take most of the day Kallig seemed more interested in their environment.

"See anything interesting?" she asked

her voice seemed to shake him out of whatever daze he was in my the way he shook his head

"Oh no, i mean yes but not in that way. you see when so many people die a violent death its almost like a can still hear the echos of their screams, can you not hear them?"

she shook her head "this place has a much more eerie feel than any other i have ever been on but i would not describe it like that. One of the added benefits of being a force walker i take it?"

he snorted "yes there is nothing like the painful wailing screams of men, women and children to make as background noise"

Ouch she turned around to see that he was in fact scowling a little and looked rather uncomfortable

"Sorry, have you felt anything like this before?"

he shrugged his shoulders "Tatooine is probably the best example, though it wasn't nearly this bad."

they walked for a few more minutes in silence when they reached a main road when Kallig spoke up

"How much further do you reckon we must go?"

"At this pace we will arrive at nightfall"

the man in front of her put a hand on his hip and his other stroked the stubble on his chin s he chewed on this information for a second before putting two fingers in his mouth and let lose a shrill whistle. birds in the nearby trees took flight as the ground began to shake and from the foliage a varactyl came bounding out of the forest canopy at full sprint before coming to a stop to the robed man. Kallig mounted the saddle and gestured for her to do the same.

"you know you could've mentioned your friend before we started walking."

he shrugged "you really don't get to take in the scenery while riding" he causly explained as she climbed behind him and braced herself on the saddle bags. When Kallig pressed his knees into the creatures sides she shot down the ruined path like she was late. Ashara almost fell off had she not grabbed Kallig by the shoulders to right herself. much to her surprise the surounding ruins and forest where in fact passing by in a blur.

"You really weren't kidding where you?"

"Kami has two gears, dead stop and full sprint"


Now that they would probably reach the enclave by noon Kallig made frequent stops every half hour to let Kami catch her breath before departing again. in what seemed like no time at all they where standing at the entrance of the enclave.

"Well come on, Ryen doesn't bite that hard i promise" Ashara said as she slipped off the creature, she couldn't help but notice Kallig become more stiff when the Enclave was in sight. he slid off after her and petted Kami and whispered to her before following behind her. for reasons she couldn't explain she felt like something bad was on the horizon, she couldn't help but wonder if those same feeling made Kallig stiffen up. At her presence the Jedi at the entrance let them pass without question, though she could notice that both they as well as everyone they passed in the hallway gave a raised eyebrow at their new soon made their way down the last flight of stairs and where now it the main indoors training area.

"Could you just wait here a minute while i try to sum up what is going on"

Kallig shrugged and leaned against a nearby wall as if trying to look bored, but she could tell from his body language he was tense, she wondered why. Ashara decided to to waste any more time and made to masters Ryen and Ocera, they where teaching a group of padawans the finer arts of lightsaber combat. at her early appearance the masters had the padawans break into groups to spar, master Ocera stayed behind to supervise while master Ryen fast walked over to her.

"Ashara you have returned from your retreat earlier than expected, and you have brought a visitor no less?" the Cathar asked

"Master in trying to cleanse the Enclave of the ghost we may have tried a little to loudy. the Sith have become aware of the ghost and now a top tier Darth has set his sights on us."

her masters eyes widened "How can you be sure of this?"

"the Darth dispatched a handful of sith assassins to dispose of me when they learned of my importance, if it were not for the actions of Kallig over there i am not sure i would have survived the experience"

"And just who is your new friend?"

"It seems the Sith have more force sensitive enemies than just the jedi, a cult of force sensitives who commune with force ghosts have been targeted by the sith, Kallig over there may be one of the few people in the galaxy who can have the ghost leave"

"I find it a little hard to belive that sith would get this worked up over a cult who talks to dead people Ashara"

"Right, a ghost can also lend their strength to people like Kallig, this Darth Thanaton sees people like Kallig as one of his only rivals in the galaxy. If we help him it would be a crushing blow to the Empire master"

Master Ryen hummed to himself as he glanced over at his guest, as if he sensed this Kallig raised his head so his slightly glowing purple eyes just peeked from under the hood as the two men had a stare off from across the room.

"Master Ocera, i think they have earned a break would you please greet our guest with us?"

the jedi master quickly dismissed the padawans and the jedi moved to Kallig, Master Ryen and Ocera folded their hands and bowed their head

"Ashara has told me much of you Kallig, welcome to our enclave"

Kallig mirrored the gesture "it is an honor"

"I must say i have never in all my study ever heard of any successful attempts to remove ghosts, where did you ever learn such a thing?"

"a ancient crumbling temple in the seat of the Empire"

"where you born in Imperial space?

"i was yes"

"but you are somehow not loyal to the Empire? what was her master doing?

"they may control this side of the galaxy, but make no mistake it is a milimeter thin in many areas"

"so you have no connections to the sith?" did she forget to tell Master Ryen this man killed sith!

a pause

"that is quite an impressive lightsaber you have there, the last time i saw one of that model was in the hands of a sith"

Kallig seemed to have enough of these questions, he unclipped his lightsaber from his belt and both her masters did the same. he then levitated the lightsaber so it was halfway in between them and used the force to dissemble the lightsaber in a second before all the pieces clattered to the floor, a purple crystal lay in the mess.

"you want to know the unfiltered truth then?" he Growled

master Ryen nodded and clipped his lightsaber back into place

"i was born into the Empire a slave as was my father, as well as his father before him back to before the time the Jedi tried and failed to wipe the sith from the galaxy."

well damn he grew up a slave? to the sith and was still normal looking? he deserved an award, or at least a hug

"but how did you free yourself?"

Kalligs emotions where resonating in the force, suddenly it went from uncomfortably hot to frigid cold in the force

"the trials to become sith are hard for a reason, for every five acolytes who try to become an apprentice only one shall succeed, this is so only the strongest of might and will can be called sith, but there is a rule. Only those from sith families could apply, slaves and aliens where never allowed in, until the war." he paused in his pacing to to look into master Ryens eyes, into his soul

"it took a thousand years to get the sith numbers to the point they where at when the war began, they where supposed to take over the whole galaxy, not half. so there was a scramble, more sith where needed in a fraction of the time. the trials are delibreate and could not change, so the rules where bent. a acolyte from a sith family would join a group of force sensitive aliens and slaves, they where expected to kill them all and toughen up but a handful of slaves managed to go the distance"

he held up two fingers "We were found easliy and given a choice, one chance, a longshot at best for freedom, or be put out of our misery. i spent weeks under a blistering sun and and unstable tombs being hunted by both monters and my peers. i fought tooth and nail like so many others"

"and how long did you spend in the galaxy though? you probrably made no attempts to seek refuge did you?"

"I was to closely watched! a pawn collecting artifacts. it wasn't until it backfired in my masters face did her higher ups take notice of me and saw my very existance as insulting and tried to outright kill me"

"and here you are tricking padawans to lead you right to a source of power, only to turn on us, like you turned on your master?"

the force rushed to Kallig with such great speed it made her dizzy as a force blast sent Master Ryen flying to the other side of the room.

"SHE BETRAYED ME!"

Master Ocera ignited his lightsaber and tried to slash the unarmed man but with greater speed than she could have imagined he picked up master Ocera by the throat and jabbed a fist into his diapham three times hard and discarded him like he didn't weigh a thing. now that here senses where together Ashara rushed to aid master Ocera as she heard master Ryen ignite his lightsaber and made to close the distance, Kallig called his lightsaber to his hand (piecing itself back together on the way there) and ignited bothe purple blades and the two clashed, though after the first couple of seconds master Ryen began to focus solely on defending himself from Kalligs onslaught.

master Ocera regained his senses and made to rejoin the fight, despite her best efforts to stop him. Kallig noticed his appearnce immediately and pushed back Ryen one last time before clashing blades with Ocera before he slipped past his defenses with ease and shocked him. He then round house kicked master Ryen and turned his attention back to Ocera and proceeded to light him up like a bulb.

The Jedi fell to the ground a smoking corpse and Kallig force pushed Ryen back into a wall and deactivated one blade and locked blades with master Ryen and got up in his face.

"Eighteen years is what i waited, eighteen damn years i truly believed the one force who could truly rival the sith would discover their presence and rescue the slaves, to rescue me and my sister, but you never DID!"

Kallig disengaged and quick as lightning he cleaved five times in three seconds, leaving master Ryen chunks of Cathar. Kallig stood over the corpse for a minute then deactivated his lightsaber, another minute passed and he dropped his lightsbaer and he turned to see her, face full of tears as she kneeled over master Oceras body. what he just done really sunk in on him and his shoulders untensed then re-tensed again. he walked over to the durasteel wall and punched it so hard it left a dent.

"DAMNIT!"

he then hit his head against the wall as the tears began to well up he then turned so that his back was against the wall and slowly descended to the floor, he curled his knees into his chest and placed his arms his arms on top his knees as he buried his face in and began to cry softly.

(A/N): the sith empire is a little messed up and probably treat slaves on the same level or worst than a hutt, i don't think i could do a full darkside SI and make him a interesting person, sorry if that is what you wanted but it is not within my ability. i think i am going to try to go for a POW camp victum like character who got his own ass out and when someone pisses him off he goes into a fight like a cornered rat cold hearted rage/fury. Ashara has quite a handful to work with