Shadows of Bankor

Liua pulled back her hood as she dismounted from the speeder bike, the dark dunes surrounded her like mountains. It had been a week since she had last communed with the holocron, some of the lessons were… untenable but others were insightful. This was her birthright and her mother had made it clear she was a child of the Light and the Dark.

She was glad to have her serve the Jedi but there was knowledge in the Dark, things the Jedi could not or would not teach.

She activated the holocron.

“Granddaughter,” she said, her voice was liquid smooth and as sinister as she was beautiful.

Fierce, graceful beauty hidden behind a shark-like smile. She gestured and said, “You come to me again, had time to consider the wisdom that only a Sith can provide? There is strength in taking a larger view of the Force, my dearest Drascovina.”

“I am dedicated to the Jedi code,” Liua responded sharply.

“The Sith have brought nothing but pain and misery, but… my grandfather found a way to love you so you can’t be all bad.”

“You are a Malveaux, power and knowledge are an intoxicating lure. I have no desire to turn you from the Light, or the Jedi, I have come to appreciate some of their merits… some. I simply wish to make sure you are better prepared for the realities of the Force and that you do not go through this life blind to everything the Force can offer you,” she responded with her shark-like grin.

Liua’s grandmother said, “The Jedi would have you deny your emotions, but they can give you Strength if you know how to focus them. The Force moves through us all, the Jedi would have you be the wave… I would have you be the storm and the waves.”

“Shall we begin another instruction, child?”

Liua frowned but she was right about one thing, her curiosity of what she could learn overpowered her caution. She nodded and said, “Fine, but don’t be boring.”

"A Malveaux is many things, child, but never boring," she said with a knowing smile.

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