Xanaphia
Biblically Accurate Bitch
- Joined
- Sep 28, 2013
Mara had trained alongside the inquisitors, and there had never been much emphasis on defense. Offense was the best defense, because a dead opponent cannot hurt you. But it was different when she served the empire. If she hadn’t to fight against the empire, even to just defend herself, she’d have to learn a defensive style. Besides, perhaps indulging the old man might make him open up about whatever it was he was holding back about her mother.
So she approached the circle, calling her mother’s saber to her hand. Impressed by the way it reacted to her, more acutely than the one provided by her father. With a snap hiss, she copied his stance, “I need to learn to get the upper hand on another saber user. How to counter them, how to break through their guard,” she insisted, watching he repeat the motions he had first demonstrated during his chant, trying to mirror him. “Jedi or not, I need to avenge my mother’s death. I need to kill Darth Vader, and I suspect I’ll have to start off with his dark progeny.”
Her father, the emperor, seemed to believe that he could find a use for the twins. That, absent their father’s presence, they could be made loyal, obedient. The idea offended her. There was little doubt in her mind they possessed the same treachery in their blood, less doubt now, after this stunt they pulled. She wasn’t sure how they managed this ruse, but while this was a minor hiccup, it could be used to prove the Vaders were moving against the Emperor, against the strength and stability of the empire.
So she approached the circle, calling her mother’s saber to her hand. Impressed by the way it reacted to her, more acutely than the one provided by her father. With a snap hiss, she copied his stance, “I need to learn to get the upper hand on another saber user. How to counter them, how to break through their guard,” she insisted, watching he repeat the motions he had first demonstrated during his chant, trying to mirror him. “Jedi or not, I need to avenge my mother’s death. I need to kill Darth Vader, and I suspect I’ll have to start off with his dark progeny.”
Her father, the emperor, seemed to believe that he could find a use for the twins. That, absent their father’s presence, they could be made loyal, obedient. The idea offended her. There was little doubt in her mind they possessed the same treachery in their blood, less doubt now, after this stunt they pulled. She wasn’t sure how they managed this ruse, but while this was a minor hiccup, it could be used to prove the Vaders were moving against the Emperor, against the strength and stability of the empire.