"The Real Identity"
By Garnet Seifer (as Lady Ammut)
Tifa Alexandros Lionhart - NPC+
Silverus - NPC

Location: Homebase
Date: Vadris 25, 4 ABY

***

Tifa was restrained on the table, still dressed with white top and the black trousers that was part of her mission attire. Her face was healing from the bruisers of the torture, but parts of her body still had several bruisers and wounds to reveal any information.

She was strong to endure the torture, but she knew it was matter of time that she would be eventually break and reveal any information that they wanted to know or at least what she knew.

There were constantly two guards inside the room to prevent any movement of her breaking from her restrains. Who is holding me here knows what I'm capable of? she thought almost every time who was the leader of this guards that has so well trained guards and troopers that made the New Republic to withdraw from the planet. She knew that whom the leader that was resourceful.

The door opened and through there she could see a white man with white clothes entering followed by someone with grey cape that covered the body of the person. The grey hood was on the head, but she could see a mask of some sort of daemon. The white man approached the table and activated the table that started to move, putting Tifa's body in vertical position. The white man approached Tifa.

"Lady Ammut wants to speak with you, I advise you to cooperate for your sake."

Tifa didn't speak, she stood there watching the so called Ammut.

"I read on my interrogator's reports that they only found that you name is Tifa Alexandros Lionhart."

Tifa nodded, she knew that voice from somewhere, but couldn't remember.

"...that you were captured here on this planet! So, what the New Republic was doing here?"

Tifa didn't speak, Aeolus approached her and slapped her face. "Respond!"

"Aeolus that is enough. She won't reveal anything through violence, but she will cooperate in my own methods. You know well, my methods, don't you Tifa?"

When Ammut told her name the sound was too familiar to be good. "You..."

"Yes, me." Ammut took her mask off revealing her face to Tifa.

"Garnet. How?"

"How?" Garnet paused and approached Tifa. "It is quite simple, really. I wanted to have quite life making deals, but a inner voice show me the potential I had, so I decided to become Ammut. Now, I have power then I ever though impossible to achieve. Now what was the New Republic doing on Homebase?"

"Do real expect to me to tell you that?"

"No, I guess not, but for your luck, we capture several other troopers and one of them talked a few days ago."

"So, why keep me here?" Tifa asked.

"Well, because I want you to suffer, like I suffer in that prison, the people I trusted betraying me."

"I didn't betray you, I made choice."

"Let me guess a conscious choice? Don't make me laugh Tifa. You betray me, like the rest of the people. You simply decided to taking your asses out of the fire, before it could spread to you and the rest of the people. Now, I want to see you face when I tell you that I sold you as slave."

"You, what? You can't do that!"

"Yes I can! The difference of my old self and my new self, is that I want you to suffer and this new buyer will make you suffer in way that in my view is far worse then kept locked up in here," Garnet said putting her mask again and walking out the door. She made sign to turn the table to horizontal position, but her body was now facing down. She could see the feet of the people on the room.

Everyone including the guards exited the room, wondering what was happening. Few minutes later, some one had entered she couldn't distinguish is it was men or women or kind of species it was, but one thing she was sure that it was her new owner.

She then felt a sharp pain all over her body and passing out almost instantly. Her body was released and slowly Tifa gain conscious and got up.

"Your mission?" the owner asked.

"Acquired..."


"Meditation"
by: Alisson Blair

Location: Mountains
Date: Vadris 25, 4 ABY

***

The recent events had proved to be heavy ones when it came to relevance into the society. Perhaps she had foreseen it differently, but that did not matter to the ultimate results or the consequences that drove them.

She wondered whether the Jedi understood anymore. Or if their patience and ability to wait would not lead them much too astray and away from the reality of the things that surrounded them, and of that which had to be dealt with at once.

And then again, she knew that surely enough Kal'Aran would understand...even though she was not sure that he would approve. She was Jedi, and for that she would not take the lives of others unless that proved to be the last remaining option. But that also meant she had to protect those who could not protect themselves and help maintain peace. And Alisson questioned herself whether this was possible with Nieme and Dani ruling the planet.

Already had the Jedi lost out against overcoming them. And now that she helped the small rebellion, she was not sure that they would be able to take the Empresses off the throne and leadership. The fight was proving to be a long and hard one, and one could only wonder where and when it would end.

Perhaps there was no other way to deal with Nieme and Dani. Perhaps conversations and time for diplomacy was over, and now all that was left was for them to be struck down. But then again, wasn't anybody worthy of a new chance to make up for things?

These were but few questions that roamed Alisson's mind while she meditated. She could see pain and anger on one side and suffering on the other... Perhaps a warning of what was to come. But she trusted the Force enough to know that whatever it was, it would lead her well.

After a few moments clearing her mind, Alisson opened her eyes and stepped outside. A new day was about to begin.