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As fate unravelled between the two, and Kara seemingly returned to her usual self, she couldn't help give a guilty smile.
"I should have known better to think that would work," she admitted, before climbing up into her starfighter, stopping for a moment to sit atop the cockpit canopy as she looked down on the former Grandmaster.
"You don't understand," she said bluntly, "and I don't expect you to understand. But I didn't say it without reason. Can't see the forest for the trees...or in this case, Andraste. I know the last thing you want now is to be burdened with another fatalistic duty, but neither of us have a choice in the matter - not yet."
The Jedi Master dropped the bundled sword of Edo Tesu into a small cavity behind the seat of the starfighter, brushing a wayward strand of her behind her ear. Somehow, she seemed...different. Less haggard or weary. Purpose burned in her eyes, though to what ends even Jhon would be at a loss. To him at least, she seemed to be avoiding fate, yet a spark of the old, purposeful Kara seemed kindled anew in some distant recess of her spirit. She turned her gaze to the man, fixing her cold blue eyes on him.
"Jedi. Sith. Evil. Good. Chaos. Harmony. The temptation's always there, but the true pivotal moments are choices. We all have to make them sooner or later, Jhon. You'll see the choices you have to make soon enough, and my own lie on a different road now because of the choice I made today. You'll have to face Him before you face Her...it's just how it has to be. But you won't have either if you stay here wallowing in self pity."
Kara then hopped down from the canopy, rotating herself to sit down in the cockpit of the fighter as the engines roared into life. As the wind kicked up around the fighter, Kara called out once last time to her mentor down below. Was that a smile on her face, and joy in her voice? Between the dust and the engine roar, it was impossible to tell.
"If you don't become the man you're supposed to be, you'll never see Her again!"
And then, in a flare of blue light and a whirl of dust, she flew off into the sky, leaving him alone once more.
"I should have known better to think that would work," she admitted, before climbing up into her starfighter, stopping for a moment to sit atop the cockpit canopy as she looked down on the former Grandmaster.
"You don't understand," she said bluntly, "and I don't expect you to understand. But I didn't say it without reason. Can't see the forest for the trees...or in this case, Andraste. I know the last thing you want now is to be burdened with another fatalistic duty, but neither of us have a choice in the matter - not yet."
The Jedi Master dropped the bundled sword of Edo Tesu into a small cavity behind the seat of the starfighter, brushing a wayward strand of her behind her ear. Somehow, she seemed...different. Less haggard or weary. Purpose burned in her eyes, though to what ends even Jhon would be at a loss. To him at least, she seemed to be avoiding fate, yet a spark of the old, purposeful Kara seemed kindled anew in some distant recess of her spirit. She turned her gaze to the man, fixing her cold blue eyes on him.
"Jedi. Sith. Evil. Good. Chaos. Harmony. The temptation's always there, but the true pivotal moments are choices. We all have to make them sooner or later, Jhon. You'll see the choices you have to make soon enough, and my own lie on a different road now because of the choice I made today. You'll have to face Him before you face Her...it's just how it has to be. But you won't have either if you stay here wallowing in self pity."
Kara then hopped down from the canopy, rotating herself to sit down in the cockpit of the fighter as the engines roared into life. As the wind kicked up around the fighter, Kara called out once last time to her mentor down below. Was that a smile on her face, and joy in her voice? Between the dust and the engine roar, it was impossible to tell.
"If you don't become the man you're supposed to be, you'll never see Her again!"
And then, in a flare of blue light and a whirl of dust, she flew off into the sky, leaving him alone once more.