(Out-Chissed)
Drakkus's words should have immobilized me, put me into fear for my life, but they didn't, they made me numb. My only thoughts were of Master Denai, and how kind she was to me when we first met on Tython, all of that was over because of some force premonition that was more likely than anything else a mistake and because of that Denai was dead. Areeva held her body in her arms, she had stopped sobbing even though there were still tears rolling down her cheeks and she had begun to sing what sounded like a lullaby as she brushed Denai's hair out of her face. I lost it, I stormed out of the room with Rarsk right behind me, and we were going to find Li'Rinna.
Rarsk followed her Chiss stench through the halls to a long flight of stairs, all the way up to the roof, in what looked like a meditation room that looked out over all of Coruscant. Li'Rinna stood at the far corner hanging onto to one of the archways, she turned her head slowly to face me with her empty red eyes, and she had the nerve to smile at me, she proceeded to strut her way towards me batting her long lashes.
"I knew you couldn't stay away from me," she was doing that weird thing with her lips for what seemed like the umpteenth time.
"You killed my master." I growled.
"Did I?" she said placing her index figure on her bottom lip and looking up at the sky, "I don't remember killing anybody, must not have been too memorable," she smirked.
"Murderer!" I screamed as I force jumped at her punching her squarely in the jaw, she seemed to spin flip out of control through the air catching her balance and landing sideways on of the archway walls, she abruptly shook her head up to look at me, I could tell she was going to have a very big bruise on her cheek right next to those infamous lips of hers. She was furious.
"Fine no more games," Li'Rinna looked absolutely feral as she jumped at me from the wall, tackling me with full force, we rolled for a bit on the ground, she kept trying to claw my face off with her nails so I force pushed her off me. She tried another one of her force spinning roundhouse kicks but I caught her foot in midair and reversed the effect and she spun backwards crashing through one of the arches and rolling out onto a terrace, I walked out slowly, Rarsk following behind me, I came up on Li'Rinna as she spat out a mouthful of blood, "You're not supposed to be this strong." She gasped.
I almost felt sorry for her, she looked completely and utterly defeated, "Give me a reason why I should spare you, what mercy did you show Denai," she laughed a sad defeated pitiful laugh and she looked me in the eyes.
"Because you're not a murderer," there were tears forming behind her eyes, "I don't want to die."
I couldn't kill her, even though she deserved it, I looked over at Rarsk and he nodded, there was no honor in cold blood. I pulled Li'Rinna up to her feet and she fell into my arms barley able to stand and she laughed a little, "I guess that what happens when you're thrown through a wall, you lose all control," she then pushed herself back from me and looked at me, for the first time I thought a saw a little humanity in the depths of her red eyes, "You did me a favor, you could have killed me, so I'll do you one in return," then she leaned in real close and whispered into my ear, "The Lord of Hunger… his mask is close to being found…" and with that she brushed her lips over my ears, "we're even."
I was about to ask what she meant when I heard a shriek come from behind us and I turned to see Areeva draw her lightsabers and leap through the air toward Li'Rinna. On Instinct I drew mine and blocked her strike. "How dare you protect that monster!" Areeva screamed with hate as she began to continually strike at me over and over, I barely managed to parry her blows with only one lightsaber, Rarsk took up a defensive position in front of Li'Rinna, he knew that to kill her like this was shameful, she belonged custody and would face a trial for her crimes.
"We can't kill her Areeva, it isn't the Jedi way," I was desperately trying to reach her in-between lightsaber blows, but she would have none of it.
Areeva force pushed me across the ground, I almost went off the edge of the building and she leapt at me, I was barely able to pull me lightsaber up in time to bloke her blow, as it was her glowing yellow blades were less than an inch from my face, "What would you know of the Jedi way, you aren't a Jedi, you were deemed unworthy!" she spat.
I threw her off me with the force, her comments had made me furiously made so I started lashing out with my lightsaber, she was now having parry my blows, while she was preparing to swing at me with her offhand saber I kicked it out of her hand, and then I force-punched her into a column causing her main hand weapon to fall to the ground before she could reach to grab it I picked her up by her shoulders and slammed her back against the column, "That's enough."
"I hate to cut and run but," I turned my head around while still pining Areeva to the wall, Li'Rinna had knocked Rarsk out and was standing on the ledge of the temple, she looked at me with those big red eyes and for the first time she looked genuinely sorry, "I look dreadful under low-watt institution lighting," she gave me one last smile and jumped backwards off the edge.
I stopped restraining Areeva and we both ran over to the edge to see what had become of Li'Rinna. She fell about twenty feet spinning in the air before she used the force to gently land on the back of a taxi and sped off into the unknown. At first all I heard was a low moan from Areeva, "No," she said quietly to herself at first, then she screamed it at the top of her lungs and started sobbing and screaming uncontrollably, I took her in my arms and held her, together we slumped to the ground, she wouldn't stop screaming, I could feel her pain and anguish, I felt it too. Master Denai was gone and she wasn't coming back, and I had let Li'Rinna go and even though I didn't understand it, I knew it was for the best, and somehow I knew I hadn't seen the last of my Chiss nemesis.