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Spoilers: For Episode 9 "Cloak of Darkness"


Ahsoka Tano

I wasn't really going to hurt him, she thinks to herself, and that's what she tells Master Luminara, too. I just wanted him to think I was. So he would talk.

And it's true, or at least it's true enough. Gunray had information and they needed it. They didn't get it, though. He's gone now, and they may never have another chance so good. A part of her that she's not even ready to acknowledge thinks that maybe if Master Luminara hadn't stopped her, he would have talked.

She could have saved lives. That's the most important thing, isn't it? But Master Luminara is a Jedi Master, so of course she's right. Ahsoka reminds herself of that, reminds herself why Master Luminara said it was wrong.

And she's grateful to Master Luminara, if not for stopping her then at least for not telling Master Anakin about what she did. Ahsoka doesn't need another lecture.

But she thinks about it, sitting alone in her quarters as the ship moves through hyperspace. She thinks about the war, and the pleasant sounds the droids make when her lightsaber slices through them, and the games she used to play with the other younglings back at the Temple.

And she can admit it to herself. She wanted to hurt him.