Behind Enemy Lines (Day Two)

[Duncan_Starchaser]

Trysta thought for a moment as she continued to look in to her hands. 'Could it be true,' she thought during that moment of silence. Before yesterday she felt that fire deep within her. It gave her strength and warmth. And now, for what ever reason that warmth, that sense of power had been replaced with this sense of emptiness. Anger filled her, more over the fear of what was going on than over anything else.

She got up from where she was sitting and motioned at Duncan, "the only thing I regret was not killing that bastard instant of saving your friend!" Rage dripped with every word of her dishonest statement. There was anger in her voice and conflict in her heart. And Duncan could sense it.

She turned and walked to the other side of the roof and scanned the area. Already workers were starting to turn Frija's vision in to a powerful psychological weapon. The dead Republic troopers were stripped naked and their bodies were placed on their knees as if praying to the center post. Their bodies were staked in place.

Trysta watched as the clothed body of Duke Saar, the legendary Jedi Hunter, was hung from a post in the center upside down. Behind that post, a hanging structure was being built. It was clear that Frija meant to hang the family who had attempted to help hide one of the Republic troopers. A tear dripped down her face, "I hate this world," she mumbled. It was just loud enough for Duncan to overhear.

Duncan walked over towards where she was looking and saw what was being done. "This is wrong. We might be fighting the Coruscant Jedi, and the Republic. But there are things that should never be done. Disgracing the dead like that taints the spirit." he told her.

He was silent for a moment. "I understand the anger your feeling. I think you Jedi keep things to bottled up inside trying to make yourselves emotionless. Then when something happens that you can't control you go all the way to the opposite spectrum. At least that why I think so many Jedi fall into darkness. I think the true path is somewhere in between. You need emotion, but you need to deal with it instead of bottling it up or letting it explode like a volcano. If you were still at the temple on Frey what did they teach you to do when you felt in conflict?" he asked her.