Krayt promised, Krayt promised, Krayt promised.

Traya pushed through some ferns to join Cade. "Okay, Cade, I waited. Lemme see what-"

Cade couldn't let her hear, "Traya, wait!"

It was too late. Traya had barely pushed apart the ferns when she began to hear the whisper.

"Krayt promised, Krayt promise-"

Cade went to grab Traya before it was too late. With ease, she sidestepped his lunge. Before Cade knew what was happening Traya, blade out, had launched on top of the injured creature. She grabbed his hair and shook his head with one hand while the other held her blade to the creature's throat.

"What did he promise you?" She was shouting now. "Where did you learn that name? It's all a lie! It's a lie!"

Cade grabbed Traya from behind trying, with all his strength, to pull her off of the dying creature. He felt a sharp pain on the side of his thigh as a lit saber grazed his flesh.

"Traya, he's barely alive! Get a hold of yourself."

"No he's dead! He's dead I tell you!"

Cade had now wrapped his arms around Traya's waist, the lightsaber was turned off, but he was still struggling against her uncontrolled flailing. He managed to pull her into the air and off the fatally wounded creature. He was always struck by Traya's immense power in moments of rage like this.

She began slamming her fists onto his head and chest, wherever she could land a blow. In a fury she kept yelling, "he's dead! He's dead!"

Cade knew every second he wasted was one less moment to save the creature. He couldn't sense their body in the Force, but he didn't need to to tell that it was barely hanging on to life.

Yet, he couldn't calm Traya and was terrified that if he let her go she might actually manage to land a killing blow on the creature on the ground.

Traya continued shouting at the creature. "You tell Krayt! You tell him I'll find him! I'll find him and I'll kill him I tell you- I'll kill him!"

Cade could barely contain the child who was so wildly flailing when suddenly the repeating mantra stopped.

Cade and Traya both froze as a whisper rose from the creature whose head was now lifted and was looking directly at the struggling pair. "The deal has been made, signed in blood. We will get what we are due. The bond can't be broken." And with that, the creature dropped its head and ceased breathing.

Cade released Traya and she fell to her knees. It felt like someone had kicked the wind out of her. All these years she had hoped the voices in her head were just voices, figments of her own imagination. She could almost take comfort in that. But to hear that name whispered by living flesh.

She didn't want to believe it, but she knew how the old Master planned. This was undoubtedly his work. She knew for sure in that moment that Krayt was returning. She had never felt more sure of anything in her life.

Cade took the sudden pause to run over to the incapacitated creature. He began attempting to pump his life force directly into the dying creature. However, something was wrong, the life Force seemed to have no direct path into the body and instead simply seemed to defuse out around it.

He looked over the body, trying to assess the injuries. He had been so busy with Traya that he had been unable to do any assessment of the state of the creature's injuries.

Laying next to the body now he saw blaster marks across the creature's chest. He had a deadwood chestplate that lay in splinters. Much of the wood had lodged itself into the creature's chest and abdomen.

Cade then expanded his presence in the Force to search for more injuries, but as he went to search the body he felt nothing. This creature was just like the deadwood chestplate he was wearing, completely absent in the Force. Cade tried not to panic as he searched for some way to heal this creature without the Force. He listened to the chest and found no heartbeat.

He began compressing the chest, trying to increase blood flow and potentially restart the creature's heart, a technique he had learned from his ventures in the Carosi system. He then gathered an electric charge into his palms. He reached out in the Force attempting to find the location of the creature's heart and suddenly released the tension in his palms.

Without being able to sense the internal organs, specifically the heart in the Force, an uncontrolled jolt of lightning could end up doing more harm than help in the chest cavity of this creature.

Even so he continued chest compressions and began opening the creature's mouth and began breathing in to them to stimulate the lungs as well.

Even with all the tricks Cade had learned when voyaging throughout the Galaxy learning healing techniques, if he couldn't feel the body in the Force, he realized how helpless he became. Yet, he wasn't ready to give up.

While Cade was struggling, Traya slowly walked up behind him, "Master."

"Not now," Cade waved her away.

"But Master," Traya tried again.

"Not now!" Cade yelled, still doing chest compressions.

"Master your leg!" Traya shouted.

Cade was so engrossed in attempting to help the dying creature, he had failed to notice what a deep wound Traya's lightsaber had left earlier. It was partially cauterized, and although Cade was oblivious to the pain, untreated it could become a significant issue.

"Let me help Master."

Cade grunted with a nod.

Traya knelt down next to Cade. While he did chest compressions, Traya attempted to heal him. She saw the blue lines indicating where the damage existed in Cade's leg, she could even feel the processes needed to heal it. She began to pour her life Force into the leg to begin the healing process. At first the skin began to regrow, slowly beginning to close up sections of the wound, but very quickly she noticed the healing begin to slow. Eventually it came to a complete stop.

She began to trace the flow of energy she was pouring into Cade's leg. Although she passed energy into Cade's leg, the energy did not settle there. It ran up his thigh, through his abdomen, into his chest, through his arms, and, at this Traya became enraged, into the corpse lying in front of him.

Traya couldn't believe it. She couldn't understand. This creature had tried to kill her Master. Why was he wasting their time with this pitiful thing? Why did this weakling mean so much to him?

She stood up, walked over to Cade, and gently put her hand on her Master's shoulders.

"It's no use, Cade. It's dead."

Cade batted her hand away. When he looked at her, she swore she saw yellow specks in his pupils. "I told you, you need to control your anger! Don't you see what you have done?"

"But Cade I need to heal you."

He looked down at the lifeless body in front of him, "Who cares about me?" He shouted. He then went into a low whisper, "you have killed Traya."

"But Master, it wasn't my fault. I was defending you."

Cade turned to face her. "You had the blaster bolts stopped! You stopped them for me." He turned to look back at the body. "You threw them at this creature for yourself."

Traya froze. She knew he was right. Then she heard him add, and I couldn't take it back.

"What did you say?"

"I said you stopped them for-"

"No not that," she interrupted him. "After that."

"Traya, I didn't say anything else."

"Don't lie. I heard what you said." Cade looked completely confused. "You think I'm just some mess you need to clean up?" She yelled accusingly.

"Traya, I didn't say that." Cade looked deeply concerned.

"I'm trying to fix that leg and you're just tossing away your energy on that, that thing!" She yelled, pointing at the creature on the ground. "I'm not wasting any more of my energy on that leg if you're just going to throw it at that corpse."

She stood up and began walking back to the Green. "You can do what you want. I'm heading back. Less for you to clean."