memories from the chapters "Lawless" and "the arrival of twilight" but most of this takes place during the chapter "walking backward"
Korkie finally learns how powerful Soniee really is in the Force and about her struggle with the dark side.

Korkie didn't shut down the holofeed until the Senate called a recess for their midday meal. He hadn't realized how tired he was both emotionally and physically, so even though the sky outside was just beginning to lighten he started to drift off to sleep. That is until Soniee reached out to him again and her fear was so palpable that he was instantly fully awake.

She seemed to relax somewhat when she touched his presence as if her fear had stemmed from believing him to be dead. Korkie recognized the sensation because it was the same thing he had felt after discovering that she hadn't been killed in the temple bombing. He wondered if perhaps she had just learned of the destruction of the Academy.

'It's okay,' he tried to tell her. 'I'm here, I'm fine, and we'll be together again soon.'

She must have not been able to hear him, though her thoughts were plain to him, But my home has been destroyed. There is no peace...

Then there was another voice and it chilled Korkie to the bone, There is no peace, There is only passion.

Soniee breathed the words, There is only passion.

Korkie had felt that passion. He remembered kissing her after he had asked her to be his wife. She had seemed electrified in his embrace.

Through passion, I gain strength, that cold voice led her. Through strength, I gain power.

Then Korkie felt a serge of hatred from the girl he loved, not directed at him. She blamed Almec and was determined to have vengeance. Her power frightened him. He knew it then. This is what the Jedi called the dark side of the Force. "Soniee!" He tried to warn her. "Don't listen to it!" But he could hear the laughter in the voice as if it knew she couldn't hear him.

Through power, I gain victory, the voice continued. And Korkie could hear Soniee whisper, Victory. She was totally under the spell.

Through victory, my chains are broken. The Force shall free me...

Korkie heard one last whisper from Soniee, I can save him. And then the connection was broken.

"Soniee, No!" he cried and regretted it almost at once when Lagos came to sit beside him.

"Are you alright?" she asked.

"I'm fine. Just had a dream. I didn't wake anyone else did I?"

"No, I don't think so." She assured him. "But a dream, like the other dream you had where Soniee told you that she as going before the senate and we found out that she actually was?"

"Force, I hope not." Korkie got up and started pacing. "She's angry and she's afraid. She's afraid something's going to happen to me but she's going down a path I can't follow."

"You love her." It was more of a statement than a question.

"Ni kar'tayl kaysh, darasuum." I know her, always.

"Then don't give up hope. She's worried that Almec will imprison you, torture you, set you up as the puppet Duke. Am I right?"

He nodded. "Something like that."

"Then she won't let on that you and she are together. She's a great actress." Lagos smiled.

"Sounds like my mother hiding the fact that she loved Obi-wan and that I was on the way."

"Well at least she doesn't have..." She stopped and stared at the guilty grin on his face. Then she punched him in the arm. "You wish you could have gotten her pregnant before she flew away!"

He rubbed his arm, smiling. "It would have given her something to remember me."

"After everything I did to prevent it." Lagos unconsciously put her hand on her own stomach. Then she drew it away again and cleared her throat. "Well just don't do anything stupid. Although if she's resorted to working with Almec to protect you she may have cornered the market."

"Working with him or trying to get close enough to kill him?" Korkie worried.

"I wouldn't have thought that was possible if I hadn't seen..." Lagos shuddered.

"What? Tell me. It was something that happened in that hanger when ... when I was unconscious."

She nodded and took a deep breath. "There were three of them we were fighting against, Bo, Soniee, Amis, and me. And, and one of them shot Amis. Soniee just... she shouted, 'NO!' and then raised her hands and shoved them with the Force. The first one hit the wall. That sound, I'll never forget it. And then the other two... must have nicked a jetpack, caused an explosion, engulfed both of them. She killed all three of them."

Neither of them heard Bo-Katan enter behind them. "She didn't want you to know." She whispered to Korkie and both he and Lagos jumped. "but now that you do. That wasn't all. I followed her. She saw you on the ground and one of them came back to finish you off. She lifted him right off the ground without even touching him and started to throttle him."

Bo took a shaky breath at the memory. "I shot him. Put him out of his misery. I know what that feels like, being choked like that. Maul did it to me once."

Korkie was horrified but he was glad they had told him, glad he knew. "Well, I... I have to go there. I have to help her. I have to let her know that I'm fine and she needn't..."

"I believe if anyone could talk her down from something like that, you could," Bo agreed. "But, we have to bide our time. Almec will be looking for you. Of that I'm certain. You show your face now and she may have every reason to use her powers."

"But what am I supposed to do?" Korkie raked his fingers through his hair angrily making it stand on end. "I can't just sit here and do nothing!"

Lagos shrugged unhelpfully.

Bo sighed. "Gran said something about helping you to construct your beskar'gam."

"Yeah." Korkie grabbed onto the idea. "She did say that."

"A buy'ce to hide your identity would be a good start." Bo nodded. "And while you're working on that I'll see what I can do about getting you a private comm link to Soniee. Might be tricky but if she's truly going to be the representative of Mandalore we want her to have all the information about what's going on here not just what Almec is bound to feed her."

Lagos caught on. "You mean leave her there on Coruscant as a true representative of our cause?"

"I don't like the idea of leaving her there unprotected." Korkie protested.

"I think she can take care of herself." Lagos smiled.

"And she's already been accepted by the Chancellor and the Senate." Bo went on. "It would be a shame to let a gift like this pass us by."

Korkie fumed. "But what if she doesn't want to do it? What if she just wants to come home?"

Bo put her hands on his shoulders and looked him in the eye. "If she really doesn't want to do this we will find a way to bring her home. But I want to give her the option first to do something important for Mandalore."

He nodded slowly. "We'll contact her and we'll see what she wants to do."