"I'll be back to get hammered on your strongest stuff, just so you'll know!"

Jool grinned as Cade, Lyna, Payne, and the three mercs were leaving. "I'll be waiting for you, then. Have a safe trip, darlings!"

Lyna glanced back, and waved at the Hutt. "Thanks, Jool! Nice meeting ya."

When they came from the back and into the cantina area, everyone met up with each other. Lyna began to call out the names. "Okay... we have: Morrigan, Chak, Kee, Deliah, Syn, Ganner, Ana, the three mercenaries, Payne, Cade, and myself."

She wiped her forehead. "Phew! That's a lot to memorize..."

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"I'm surprised myself," Ana replied, smiling.

Ana saw that Cade, Lyna, and Payne came from the back, along with three tough looking mercenaries.

"Hey, they're back! C'mon, Ganner. Let's meet up with them." She got up, and went over to the other crew.

Ganner followed behind her to the group. "So is everyone ready?"

He noticed three tough looking guys, "who are they?"

"So is everyone ready?"

Lyna nodded. "Just about. It's been fun here... so far." She laughed. Thank goodness they had extra people to help them.

"Who are they?" She noticed that Ganner was curious about the three mercenaries. Lyna turned and looked at them. Then she turned back to Ganner. "Oh, they're mercenaries. Here to help stop the Sith's reign."

Ana grinned. "Cool."

"Nor Jaylo, Nima San and Yano Marsh" Cade introduced the additional party members. "They've all got muscle, based on Payne's perspective..."

Payne grunted in response.

"Okay... now that we may have a party the size of a tacticle combat unit, we should be able to eliminate our target Sith Lords... if we all work together."

Cade forgot to fill the mercenaries on the details. "Uh, heh heh... I know this may sound... crazy, but how do you feel about infiltrating the Sith temple?"

((Good to have ya back, PK! :) ))

"Uh, heh heh... I know this may sound... crazy, but how do you feel about infiltrating the Sith temple?"

Nima stepped up and glared. "Those freaks ruined my life by terrorizing my homeworld! I lost everyhting I held dear to me. Now I'm a mercenary, willing to destroy the Sith once and for all!"

The female Twi'lek sighed, and calmed her nerves. Yano also stepped up. "We'll help you in anyway we can. The Sith Order must be brought down."

Lyna smiled. "And you guys are right. If we work together, like Cade said, then we'll be strong enough to defeat the Sith." Then she started to head out the door. "Now. We're off!" She began to march like a soldier, but in a funny way.

((lol, I've been a bit busy... that and my dad's internet is kinda arse))

Cade stepped out, and walked beside Lyna. "I havent thought of a plan yet. But while we were in their, I managed to download an entire map of the temple."

He pulled out his datapad, and showed the blueprints on the display screen to Lyna. "I could use your help with forming a strategy. Payne isn't very communicative..."

((Oh man. I've been busy too. With all the final exams coming up and stuff. But it'll all be good.))

Lyna looked at the blueprints on the datapad Cade showed her. Good thing they were in the Sith Temple to get something like this. She looked up at Cade, and nodded.

"This is good. We'll use this to find out the Sith Temple's weaknesses and plan a way inside and out. Yeah, this is really good. Smart thinking, Cade. We'll all come together and plan this out, once we get inside the shuttle." She smiled.

When they continued to walk towards the Jedi Shuttle, Lyna felt a cold rush of wind through her body. She shivered. "Hey, Cade? Don't it feel cold to you?"

((I plan on showing the ghosts of Lyna's parents when everyone gets into the Jedi Shuttle. They'll first encounter Lyna and her friends for the first time.))

((My main computer is messed up(trojan virus) so I have to use the side comp, which sucks.

Lyna: Sounds good Everyone sees the ghosts right or just Lyna?))

Nor stood there. "That's the main reason I practice long range to shoot them darn sith."

Ganner walked up the ramp to the shuttle first. "Hey Wolf! Shado! I think we're ready, you can start the engines."

((Everyone sees Lyna's ghost parents. I'll play as them for a little while.))

Once the crew got in the shuttle to plan thier next move, Cyan got out of the basket, and jumped on Lyna's shoulder. Then the binjinphant started to lick her masters' cheek.

"Oh, Cyan!" Lyna said happily.

Shado nodded at Ganner's request, got up, and walked towards the cockpit to start everything. Suddenly, he stopped, feeling a cold breeze as well. "Woah. I sense something... and it doesn't feel like the wind."

Lyna, along with the others, felt it as well. "You're right, Shado. Something's lingering in this shuttle. As if... a ghost is here." Cyan got so scared, that she jumped down, and went with her babies to keep them safe.

Ganner got a shiver down his spine, "I can feel it. Is it Darth Krayt?"

He noticed a figure but couldn't figure who it looked like. "Is that it?" Ganner said pointing to the corner of the shuttle.

"I can feel it. Is it Darth Krayt?"

Cade gave a Ganner a strange look. "He's long dead... and his spirit would most likely be tainted with the dark side... but I don't sense it here!"

Cade could feel the cold breeze on the shuttle. "Can somebody please put the heater on? I'm getting the chills in this place!"

Lyna walked over to where the heater was. But before she could press the on button, she saw that the shadow, which hid from the corner, came out, forming a ghostly woman!

The ghostly woman looked beautiful. She had long flowing hair that was blonde, green eyes that glew, and a bright flowing white dress that had long torn bell bottom sleeves.

Lyna gasped, and ran by Cade. Ana did the same with Ganner. Even the other crew got scared. The ghost looked at everyone. Then she said, "Are you all scared?" She smiled.

Ganner's face went pale. He hadn't seen a ghost in real life, and heard about them happening to other people. He just didn't think it would happen to him. He felt hands holding onto his arm. Ana must have been scared more than him. He was amazed, more than anything. "Who... Who are you?"

It had been some time since Cade had seen a force ghost. Though he was used to it, due to the amount of times his great ancestor, Luke, came to visit him.

"Are you all scared?"

"Tsk... Not really. I'm used to seeing... your kind. How is my great ancestor, by the way?"

"Tsk... Not really. I'm used to seeing... your kind. How is my great ancestor, by the way?"

"If I knew him... I'd say he's doing quite well, if you ask me." The ghostly woman replied with an echo tone.

"Who... Who are you?" She heard the other young man ask. The ghost smiled. Then she floated in the air towards them, slowly. "Who am I? I am--" Suddenly, another ghost bumped into her, knocking her on the shuttle's floor.

The ghost that bumped into her was male. He had brown hair, glowing blue eyes, and brown trim beard. He wore a blue jacket that was torn, Corellian trousers, and black boots.

"Whoo! Glad I made that soft landing!" the male ghost said.

The ghostly woman got angry, and floated in the air again, looking at the male ghost. "Jasten! I wanted to make my entrance look scary! Can't I scare someone for you to not get in the way?!"

"C'mon, Sasha honey! I... *hiccup* was having a blast!" Jasten answered.

Lyna squinted her eyes. "Mom? Dad?" Was it truly them? If it was... Lyna was surprised.

"Mom? Dad?"

"These are your parents. Lyna?" Cade took a closer look at the force ghosts. "Ah, I see the resemblance!" he chuckled.

He looked back at Lyna. "Are... were they Jedi?"

Lyna looked up at Cade. "Ya don't remember? We saw that holovid my mom and dad's friend gave me. They were criminals. And because they were, they died in the old apartment here on Coruscant. That explains how I ended up in the closet, hidden from the raiders."

Sasha and Jasten looked at Lyna for a moment. Suddenly, Sasha screamed. "Lyna?! Oh, my baby!" She wanted to hug her, but remembered that she was a ghost. "Oh my gosh... you're so grown. And you still have your father's blue eyes, and my feature."

Jasten smiled and agreed. "She *hiccup* She sure does!"

Lyna blushed timidly. Then she turned to everybody else. "Everybody! Meet my ghost parents. Jasten and Sasha Honso."

Ganner looked at the ghosts as if it was fun being dead. Or atleast enjoyable. "Nice to meet Lyna's parents. You guys lived on Dantooine didn't you? My parents did too." He held his hand out, forgetting they can't interact physically with the living.

Sasha smiled kindly at Ganner. "Sorry, sweetie. Ghosts can't shake the living's hand. And no, we lived here on Coruscant." Jasten hiccuped again. The ghostly mother turned to him, narrowing her eyes at him. "Jasten? Please do not tell me you got drunk inside another human."

Jasten smirked. "Phh! Not all all!" He wobbled, trying to stand tall.

"The reason why I agreed to stay with you was because you were clumsy! You may have been excellent in battle, but clumsiness always followed ya!"

"Clumsy?! Woman, that's my mother for ya!" Lyna, who stood beside Cade, tried her best not to laugh at her ghostly parent's remarks.

Sasha nodded her head rapidly. "There, you see! You get it from your mama!"

"Yeah, well, life isn't all cream filling!" Jasten replied. "Says the 'I wanna get drunk inside a human' ghost!" Sasha said.

Suddenly, they heard laughter. It was Lyna, who was rolling on the floor with tears in her eyes as she laughed. "Call in the doctor! I think I'm gonna pass out of laughter! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!!"

(Oops wrong parents.....XD)

Ganner pulled his hand back, "Oh ya."

Ganner looked at Lyna who was on the floor laughing. He hadn't ever seen Lyna like that for the 3 years together. He looked at Cade and raised his eyebrow.

Cade exchanged looks back at Ganner. "eh, heh heh..." was all he could manage to speak out.

Cade wondered about the possibility of Lyna's parents appearing as force ghosts, without some sort of training. But such mysteries were perhaps best to be left unanswered. The future of the galaxy was all that mattered.

"Okay... what an unexpected reunion. So what happens now?"

"Okay... what an unexpected reunion. So what happens now?"

After she was done laughing, Lyna stood up, wiping her tears with a giggle. "I'm sorry, guys. It's just that... my parents are too much!" She cleared her throat. "Okay. Now to be serious. To answer your question, Cade, we need to plan a way to stop Nihl's ruling of the Galaxy. But it's gonna take a lot of teamwork..."

Jasten flew over by his daughter's side. "Don't worry! We'll help as well. With a little help from someone else..."

A short, gray-haired ghost with torn clothings, a cane, and a humpback appeared before the crew. "Hello, everyone. Remember me, Lyna?"

"Gorto!" Lyna turned to the others. "This is Gorto Cano. Mom and dad's old friend. He use to help them with informations on rich places to get money." She smiled. "This is great! Together, we can defeat Nihl and the Sith!" Lyna turned to Cade. "Ready to take the blueprints out, Cade?"

"This is great! Together, we can defeat Nihl and the Sith!"

Cade looked at the three ghosts.

"Eh, no offence or anything, but judging by your state I don't think your gonna do very much damage. But hey, don't let me stop you!"

Cade pulled out the datapad with the blueprints, as requested by Lyna. He hooked it up to the ships Holoprojector, and a display of the Sith temple appeared before the group. He gave everyone a moment to study. Cade looked at Lyna. "How did you get into the Sith temple again, after I was captured?"

"How did you get into the Sith temple again, after I was captured?"

Lyna placed her fingers on the side of her head to think about that. Then, it came back to her. "What I did was that I went to the Underground of the Sith Temple. It's with a walkway, on top of the water."

She walked to the display of the blueprint and studied it. Then she pointed to that exact same location. "Right there."

Jasten nodded. "Interesting." Then he whispered to Sasha, "We could scare some Sith then! Fun, huh?"

"Yeah. Real fun..." Sasha responded, grinning up at her husband, and wrapping her arms around his arm.

Ganner lost his memory for a second, "Wait.... Why we going back to the Sith Temple again?" He looked over Lyna's shoulder to see the blueprint.

"Wait.... Why we going back to the Sith Temple again?"

Lyna glanced at Ganner and smiled. "Well... we gotta stop Nihl from taking over the Galaxy. If he does... all is lost."

Cyan leaped on her master's shoulder, agreeing with her. Gorto, Jasten, and Sasha hung their heads, looking sad. "And so that the ghosts can live in peace again. Even the dead needs peace," Sasha said to them."

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Darth Maladi came inside Lord Nihl's throne room. She bowed before him.

"I'm sorry to come unexpectedly, my lord... but one of the Assassins tracked Skywalker and his friends."

"Alright! Now to get back on topic, I think we should split into two teams, One will take the sewers and the other shall take another entrance. So the Sith won't be expecting another suprise visit if the other team gets caught."

Cade studied the map. "Hmmm... I don't think we could take Payne's previous entrance again. Unlike the sewers, they'd have probably reinforced it for all we know!"

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"I'm sorry to come unexpectedly, my lord... but one of the Assassins tracked Skywalker and his friends."

Nihl looked back at Maladi, after a discussion with one of the Moffs.

"They have a kill order when ready. But I'm curious as to where they are... How did the assassin acquire this information?"

((Sorry I took so long. Those finals were killers! But now... SCHOOL'S OUT!!! :D ))

Lyna nodded at Cade's suggestion. "Gosh, you're right!" She then sighed. "Okay. Let's see..." Lyna stepped back and looked at everyone. Then she began to arrange the teams.

"Team 1 will be Cade, Ganner, Payne, Ana, Gorto, Mom, Dad, and myself. Team 2 will be Morrigan, Deliah, Syn, Chak, Kee, Nor, Nima, and Yano. Team 1 will go to the sewers, while Team 2 will find another entrance. But we gotta be careful."

The young woman then turned to Cyan, Shado, Wolf, and the 2 remaining Jedi. "You guys don't mind staying, right?" Wolf shook his head. "Not at all."

Lyna nodded, and turned to Cade and the others. "Then it's settled. Any questions or comments?"

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"He followed them, my lord. He spotted Skywalker and his friends at a Cantina in the Underworld. He then contacted me, telling me this infomation. They may still be down there."

Maladi continued to bow before Nihl, waiting for his response patiently.

"Then it's settled. Any questions or comments?"

Payne raised his hand. "When do we start raising the Sith Temple into one big hell-hole?"

"We'll need some time to prepare, Payne. Or we could go now if this lovely lady wishes too!" Cade glanced at Lyna. "Your choice. What shall we do now?"

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Nihl considered for a moment. "As I said, orders are to eliminate Skywalker and his companions on sight!" He continued briefing with the Moff.

"You are dismissed, Darth Maladi!"

"Your choice. What shall we do now?"

Lyna glanced down, and grinned. Then she glanced back up at the others. "I say we go now. It's better off to fight the Sith now than later. Since we took a rest, I'm pretty sure we're all energized by now."

Jasten smiled. "Great! Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!"

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Maladi stood up, and bowed. "Thank you, my lord."

After that, she walked out of the throne room, and back into her Lab.

Ganner knodded to everybody. "I'm ready let's get this show on the road."

He walked over to Ana "you ready?"

Ana glanced up at Ganner and smiled. "Ready whenever you are."

Lyna clapped her hands. "Okay, people, let's get in our teams! C'mon! One, two, three, four, let's get our rears through the door! Five, six seven, eight, who do we appreciate? Go, Team, go!" The young woman chuckled. "Man, I've always wanted to do that..."

Cyan cocked her head at Lyna. Then she rested beside the basket in which her five baby binjinphants were in.

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Outside the Jedi Shuttle, and within the shadows, a figure with a mask and a hooded cape watched the heroes as they prepare to fight against the new Dark Lord of the Sith.

The masked figure commed someone. "Target sighted. Skywalker and his friends are preparing to fight the Sith Lord. Azlyn Rae out..."

((Surprise, surprise... :¬: ))

((Azlyn was a Jedi, yes? I kinda forgot...))

As Cade stepped out of the Shuttle, ready to follow his companions to the Sith Temple, he could feel the presence of someone familiar...

He looked into the distance, through the Vong spawned buildings and the darkness. Cade squinted through the shadows...

"Who is that?" he whispered.

((Yep. Azlyn was a Jedi, who Cade knew in his childhood. Then she became a bounty hunter and Imperial Knight. Don't worry, she's not working for the Sith.))

"Who is that?"

Lyna looked at the shadows and opened her mind to the Force. Suddenly, she could sense somebody hiding in it! The young woman stepped in front of everyone.

"Allow me..." Lyna raised her hand, and moved it to the side. Suddenly, the hooded-masked person came flying on the wall and fell towards the ground. Lyna walked over to the person. She then ignited her mother's orange bladed lightsaber and pointed it at the stranger. "Who are you?!"

The masked person looked up, and took off the mask. It was a young, red haired woman with a ponytail. She smiled. "Hello, Cade."

"Hello, Cade."

Cade lowered his blaster. He recognised the face that was revealed after the figure took off the mask. "Its been some time, Azlyn..." Cade greeted. "I think you caught us at a bad time." he grinned.

Cade stepped forward. "Wel'p, we might as well get the obviouse stuff out of the way first. Just exactly what are you doing here?"

"Wel'p, we might as well get the obviouse stuff out of the way first. Just exactly what are you doing here?"

Azlyn got up, placing her cloak and mask in her bag. "Well... to tell you the truth, I'm going undercover for Roan Fel. I'm still trying to complete my training. But that's not important. I was sent by her Highness, Marasiah Fel, to watch over you. Guess I did a bad job at that."

Lyna's eyes glanced down by that name. "Marasiah Fel. I know her..." she thought. She glanced back up at Azlyn, smiling. "Well, it's good to have an old friend of Cade around. I'm Lyna Honso."

"Azlyn Rae." The two young women shook hands. After that, Azlyn looked at everyone. "So... shall we proceed on taking out the Sith?"

"So... shall we proceed on taking out the Sith?

"If you think you're up for the chalenge, then I suppose you can tag along for the time being. We could always use an extra hand."

Cade remebered Azlyn mentioning of Marasiah. "How is she...How is Marasiah?"

"How is she...How is Marasiah?"

As the crew continued to walk to the Sith Temple in secret, Azlyn walked beside Cade. "She's doing great. Being safe on Bastion, and training as an Imperial Knight herself... I never knew she had it in her. But other than that, she's doing fine. Thanks for asking."

Lyna remembered Marasiah. I mean, who wouldn't. As Lyna walked beside Cade in the opposite side of Azlyn, she spoke. "I know Sia as well."

Azlyn turned to her, and grinned. "Sure. Everybody in the Galaxy does."

"No, I mean, I know her know her. When I was a 19-year-old slave girl, I did a performance for a crowd in Nar Shaddaa. After my performance, Sia and Astraal, her missionary as well as her friend, came up to me and talked. Told me how I really felt being a slave girl, and that I should be something more great. She also told me her true identity, and gave me 1,000 credits.

I told her, "May the Force be with you, your Highness." And she replied, "And with you as well." Then they ran, to meet back with Elke Vetter, Sia's master."

Lyna rubbed her neck nervously, after telling her story of how she met Marasiah.

Cade listened to Lyna's story. It was funny feeling; Lyna met Marrasiah and so did Cade. It almost seems like almost everything has a connection.

Cade sighed. "Welp... the Sith Temple shouldn't be too far away... okay, maybe a few hours at this pace, but meh.. we could always steal some guy's speeder to make the trip more quicker but I'm too lazy..."

Even through the dark shadows of the underworld, Cade could still make out that familiar towering structure in the distance: the Sith Temple was straight ahead...

Ana glanced up at Ganner. "It's weird how everybody knew Princess Marasiah in person. I wish I met her," she whispered to him.

Lyna smiled up at Cade, and looked back ahead. In her mind, she hoped that the Fel's Empire and the Galactic Alliance would at least work together to stop the Sith as well. She also hoped that the Galaxy would be in peace after the Sith Order was defeated.

The young woman felt an uneasy feeling. The Sith Temple was almost near than she expected.

"Okay, guys. I sense that we're almost near the Temple. But we gotta be very careful. Somehow I feel that... something isn't right..."

"Somehow I feel that... something isn't right..."

"Why? Whats wrong?" Cade asked as he walked with the group to the growing temple in the distance. Cade used his instincts to try and interperate what Lyna meant. Indeed, it would be inevitable that something wouldn't be right...

"Why? Whats wrong?"

The young woman rubbed the side of her head. "Well... it feels like... someone's following us. And it's not a good sense neither."

Lyna could see the Sith Temple ahead. It looked pretty scary from her point of view, as the Sun began to rise behind the gloomy place.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, appeared Jasten, Gorto, and Sasha, floating up in the air. "Really? Something feels wrong?" Gorto asked. Azlyn began to scream. "Ghosts!!"

Lyna chuckled. "It's okay. That's my parents and their old friend. Jasten and Sasha Honso, along with Gorto Cano, the old one."

Azlyn sheepishly smiled. "Oh. Right. Heh heh..."

All of a sudden, a blaster bolt came flying past the group from the shadows ahead, and hit a wall behind them. Luckily, no one was hurt. "What the kriff was that?!" Blue yelled, pulling out her blaster.

Cade pulled out his saber and activated it. He squinted into the direction where the blaster bolt came from. He couldn't see anybody.

"Assassins..." he muttered. "Perfect timing!"

Another blaster bolt came from nowhere, just as Cade managed to deflect it back. He glared. "Where are they coming from?" he whispered. He reached into his senses to find where exactly the assassins were hiding...

Before Lyna could answer, someone started a battle cry. A figure jumped from the ceiling and landed a few feet away from Lyna. It was a human, with a black hood, black and white jumpsuit, red goggles, and a Shockstaff.

He started to fight Lyna, his first opponent. Lyna tried her best to defend herself, but the Assassin was too much for her. Suddenly, he smacked Lyna across the face with the end of the staff, and kicked her to a nearby wall.

The Assassin turned to the others. "Who's next?"

"Who's next?"

"Me!" Cade glared from behind the Assassin. He knocked the hilt of his lightsaber against the skull of the attacker. The Assassin fell down. "Thats what you get for hitting a woman!"

He looked down at the assassin, waiting for his next move!

((Hey, PK? You think we should wait for Atomic? I PMed him, just to ask if he was playing still.))

The Assassin had his eyes closed, but pretended to be unconscious. He smiled under his hood, and swung his foot on Cade's leg to make him fall.

He stood up, and picked up his Shockstaff again. Everyone pointed their weapons at him. The Assassin laughed. "You all ain't gonna stop me! I've been sent by the best people there is to bring you all in. But in order to do that... I have to shock you."

All of a sudden, Sasha the ghost appeared before the Assassin. The Assassin looked up in the air and saw her, terrified.

Sasha began to transform into a hideous, scary-looking ghost. ((Think of the girl from "Exorcist".)) "You shouldn't be hittting girls, boy! Haven't your mother taught you nothing?!"

The Assassin stood there, shaking in fear. Everyone else was even scared of Sasha. Even Jasten and Gorto.

((Yeah probably should... though you never know what he/she is doing atm...))

Now was a good chance to strike back while that shady hitman was driven into his own fear. "This'll make your knees tremble!" he said.

Cade used the force to knock the assassin down on his knees and used put him into a paralyising stasis field. Cade held the man's head and banged it against the ground.

"Who are you?" he demanded.

((I agree.))

The Assassin smiled. Although he couldn't move, his mind was still opened for the Jedi to hear. "My name's none of your concern... Jedi. But if I were you... I'd run home like a four-year-old before something bad happens!" His smile grew, as he tortured Cade with his words.

Azlyn and Blue came and helped Lyna up. Lyna rubbed her head as she moaned and stood up. "Man. That was... embarrassing." She glanced at the hooded figure. From a distance, she sensed that this Assassin was surprisingly... young. Probably no older than Cade or herself.

The Assassin decided to make Cade more angry with his smart remarks. "Oh! Now I remember my name. It's Howdy Dopey! Like you and your friends! How's that, Jedi?" He laughed in his mind.

Cade chuckled and looked at his team mates. "Get a load of this! An assassin with a sense of humour." he glanced down at his prisoner while still holding his head to the ground. "Heh, you're funny man you know that?"

Payne swivled his eyes. "If you're gonna get some information from this man, I'd suggest more effective means of persuasion! Like torture..."

"Perhaps... later... as a last resort!" Cade replied.

Lyna continued to look at the Assassin. Then she began to Force bond Cade. "Cade. This Assassin is young. I sense it through the Force. It's kinda... strange. Let me talk with him."

The young woman knelt by the Assassin. "What is your name? And how old are you?" she asked in a gentle tone through the Force.

The Assassin looked up at Lyna. His eyes were mixed with anger and fear. "J-Joey. Joey Garaz. I'm 18-years-old." There was something about Lyna he couldn't figure out. How could she be so gentle to him... after what he did to her?

"Joey. That's a nice name. Who sent you after us?" Lyna asked.

Joey closed his eyes. "The... the Sith did."