Thread: Lessons in the Dark  [ Jagd & Bear ]

Good, good. She was beginning to relax, yet agitated and more significantly she was answering the important question. Her answer was childlike thought the Sith bemusedly. Then again she was clearly agitated. The Sith moved closer but did not move up to the table or take a seat. Providing her a safe space. Behind te mask his gaze kept track of her. She was like a trapped gundark, ready to strike out. Yet with his armor she could not see the amusement he took from this situation and honestly it provided a very appropriate atmosphere for Sith training. Her emotions, her senses were heightened. Not in the usual way through Sith apprentices competing with one another where pranks, attacks and sabotage are acceptable which keeps each student in a state of near paranoia at all times. This was certainly different but the mental and physical stress seemed comparable. Self sacrifice, that is most important. It is important for you to sacrifice for others. For you to deny yourself, your emotions for others. I assume so the lives of others are better? Hm. He tried to encapsulate her answer and reword it for the lesson at hand without losing the intent of her answer. It was a decent answer. The Sith actually wished he had some Sith apprentices to hear that answer. These are the sorts of fanatical tools you will be fighting against. Those who sacrifice themselves without concern for themselves. Then he mulled over her definition of his side. Yet I am just evil and self serving. I see. The Sith nods his head slowly stewing over the meaning of this. There wasnt much there honestly. His side is self serving assholes. A fairly easy and blunt message. He could see how that would sell well with the media. Yet now it was time to get back to the lesson. What does her definitions mean. These emotions which you must not have so you can serve others and presumably be good as opposed to evil. Oh, hes one of those teachers who paces. This was another reason why he didnt sit. Is not emotions how people, normal people, people who are not Jedi connect with one another? When a non-Jedi sacrifices part of themselves for another is not that due to an emotional connection with others? A pair of rhetorical questions meant to punctuate the lesson before he asks the important question, Then dear Padawan, why is your sacrifice be different? There were a lot of potential reads of this question and he hoped her mind could see that with clarity but probably being stuck in an enemy ship with a powerful enemy pacing back and forth like a caged beast was not the place where this woman would be able to find clarity. How to do so was a lesson for another time. You see I do feel. So when I feel for another, whether that is sadness, anger, passion, desire I am connected to them, but you, Jedi, never are. You help for the greater good. Not because you know and care for that person. You strike down Sith soldiers because you are told to. Not because you hate them, that they are in the way of your goal. When you bed another Oh you do not do that. But if you did it would presumably be for the greater good, yes? Not because when you see your lover or hear your lovers voice that your blood boils with desire to claim them and share in pleasure with each other. No, you do these things for the greater good. As he spoke about why one does what they do, the drive behind it he kept a strong connection to the Force to keep tabs on this woman's emotional reaction to his words, his view on how the Jedi fail to live up to the ideals by cutting off those who matter. Or to flip it around when I sacrifice for another it is due to a connection, it is my choice. You never connect with another. I would argue Jedi never connect with themselves either but we have not gotten there yet. But the important question is when you sacrifice for others are you connected with them? Does your sacrifice mean something within their lives or yours as a Jedi? He was wordy and verbose, prolific and prone to prose. He was a teacher and this nameless padawan was his student. After all what else did she have to do while waiting for Rultan to come save her. Sure, the Sith could just tell her this but it was more satisfying to tease the information out naturally.