The golden fields of Unity.

  Anakin was resting in his assigned room, which turned out to be just o Ahsoka's room ihe Temple of the Grey. He went to look for her padawan only to be notified by a floating orb like droid that she had left to look around the city. Now Anaki back to his room to brood over her padawan's thoughtlessness.

  This pce could be dangerous for all we know, and what does she do? Of course she goes out and starts to wander around without a sed thought.

  I mean, yeah I was kind of occupied until now, I was trying to boost this siger to the maximum range... I mean, teleportation is ohing, but I am not going to believe just like that, that we actually went to a different gaxy in a snap. This pce sure feels weird enough, but I have seen much stranger pces. The only truly unusual thing here is this strange force presence.

  -Force presenbsp;

  -Force presence.

  -Force presence.

  Three different voices spoke up behi the same time as I fihe exact same thought in my mind. This made me jump up from the chair as I turned around I ignited my lightsaber as fast as I could.

  My heart was beating with an unusual sense of dread, how could someohis close without me notig anything... Also, how could they disappear just like that, the room was pletely empty, am I... imagining this? No, no way.

  I walked towards the trum of the simplisti, there was a wardrobe with a rge mirror pced on its door, a et, a chair, a bed, and a table, where I was sitting until now. There was o hide in here, but I could still feel a presenow that I was fog on it. I decided that it was time to speak up.

  -Who are you?

  I waited for a while, but there was no answer. I decided to try a different approach.

  -Show yourself, there is no reason to hide, I already know that you are here. I sense your presence.

  I could see small shadows move at the edge of my visio when I turowards it, it always seemed to disappear. This annoying process repeated itself for a while.

  Then, my eyes actally fell on the rge mirror hanging on the door of the wardrobe and I got a new idea. I turned in a way that I could see behind me in through the mirror.

  Then I began to wait while fog on my own form standing ihe mirror with the blue bde still shining in my hands, I was ready for anything.

  The low humming of the bde filled the entire room. The shadows seemed to begin their da the edge of my vision again, just as I expected. My eyes began to feel irritated from the long staring as I didn't even blink. More seds went by, and the irritation only grew, in the end I had to blink, and I did.

  In that fra of a sed a shadowy form appeared ihe mirror just behind me. My eyes locked onto its face with a sick fasation, while his eyes looked into my eyes through the mirror. Eyes glowing with a radiating golden bze, resembling a yellow star.

  I was momentarily stupified, those eyes on that face made me feel sick to the bo was... it was my own face, after all.

  -Do you like them?

  Souhe question, and it finally forced me out of my shoduced stupor, I whirled around cutting the shadowy entity in half diagonally, frht hip to left shoulder.

  Its humanoid form turned into heavy bck mist and fell down towards the floor dispersing slowly seeping into the cracks on the charred earth under my feat.

  It was that moment when I realized that I was no longer in my room. All of a sudden I was in a pletely dark pce with only my lightsaber to serve as a torch. I looked around quickly, but there was nothing I could see, couldn't uand what was going on. Seeing myself with those eyes, however ridiculous that may have been, it was still making me unfortable.

  I felt a spike of anger, rise inside me, as I realized, this bastard was hiding again.

  -Is hiding the only thing you do? e out and fight you damned coward!

  -Hiding?

  Asked the voice of an old woman.

  -Hiding, he says!

  Stated the voice of a much younger woman.

  -But, who is the one, who hides?

  Questiohe voice of a young girl.

  -Is it me?

  Came the voice of a little boy.

  -No its me!

  Shouted a young man.

  -Or is it him?

  The question came through the voice of an old man with a slightly shaking voice.

  I heard six different voices speakiween one another, like pying a game of some sort, and I was not here to py games.

  -I am not hiding anything.

  My patience was running out, I could feel it with my anger rising.

  There was a moment of silehen the voices began to speak again. This time all of them spoke at the same time, words by words their voices merged together into a pletely new voice.

  -He is not hiding anything?

  -That's what they all say!

  -Not from us, that's true.

  -One hide from the eyes outside.

  -But one ot hide.

  -From the eyes within.

  The moment the st word oken, my lightsaber held in my hand flickered and its light suddenly ged to a blood red hue.

  The ge surprised me so much, that I dropped the bde on the ground. I watched it in fusion as it rolled on the ground still ignited leaving behind a molten trail where the psma burhe earth.

  I was about to take a step towards it and pick it up. I wao see what the hell happened with it... A lightsaber does not ge its color just like that...

  However, before I could move, I heard a series of heavy steps eg through the dark pce. They were ing closer with powerful momentum and speed, from the sounds of the steps it could be described as the fine liween running and walking.

  Then I heard a strange noise appear in the darkness, it was like an elongated heavy and painful breathing. Then it repeated louder, then again. Soon the red light from the still ignited bde fell upon the silhouette of a tall droid... no it was a man, pletely covered in bck armor and a bck cape was hanging over his shoulder.

  There were many strange lights on his armor, belonging to maes, I reached out with the force sensing the purpose of such maes. My eyes widened with surprise as I uood that all of them were life supp maes attached to his armor. I reached further and realized that his arms and legs were meical and some of his ans were as well.

  I flinched, how is this man still alive? He shouldn't be alive, how could he walk around like that, in heavy armor.

  The man stopped o my lightsaber, he raised his right hand with a heavy and somewhat slow movement than the bde, my bde jumped up into his hand and his bck gloved fingers ed around it with ease. As if they'd do hundreds of times already.

  My eyes narrowed on him, he was a force user with aremely dark and malicious presehe room seemed to drop in temperature only from his appearance. I felt threatened, especially now, as my bde was in his hand, I should have picked it up while I had the ce... Well, no reason to cry over spilled milk.

  I acted as if I erfectly fortable with the situation and asked him.

  -Who are you, another sith? Maybe that mysterious master we are looking for?

  The tall figure lowered the bde o his body, but he did not turn it off. His face looked up then turowards me showing that his face was also covered in a pletely bck mask just as his eyes were.

  There was a tense silend the air was filled with the low hum of the lightsaber and the repetitive sounds of the lonely breathing apparatus attached to the man who had suffered from tless injuries yet still stood tall, in front of me.

  It was sad, what could drive a man to live, still after such pain and suffering.

  At st, a meical aionless, deeply malformed voice spoke in the darkness.

  -You know, who I am.

  I felt pure dread crawl up the length of my spine as a cold shiver came over me. Sensing the suffering, and loathing ringing through that meical voice was disturbing. Still, I tried my best to cover up this growing sense of disfort and fear with an awkward joke.

  -Well, I beg to differ...

  -Your jokes ot save you, Skywalker.

  A spike of ess bit into me as the room seemed to bee frigid.

  I swallowed drily and tinued.

  -Lets not get to clusions so quickly, I could be a real charmer if I gave it my all, you know?

  I asked him as I tried thten the mood. I didn't really know why, but in front of this man, I had an urge to speak nonsense only to stretch the time at least.

  -Did your charm save your mother?

  I blinked in momentary fusion, and shock.

  Then I felt as a cold fury spread inside my chest. My voiaturally lowered almost to a whisper as a wave of pain, selfloathing, anger, and disgust spread inside me, making my body shake from the wave of emotions. The shame of massag all those is... even the children blinked into my mind as I said. Thehought of what they did... they deserved it!

  -Shut your dirty mouth, or I will kill you.

  My easy going persona was no more, it was shattered into pieces by that simple sentehat the man said.

  I heard my own voice speaking to him in a menag tone distorted by so much hatred that I couldn't reize it anymore. Was that truly my voice?

  The man didn't care for my warning and he tinued.

  -Just like you did with the tuskens?

  -Stop it, shut your trap, now!

  -It did n baother. It will n back your wife, either.

  I froze, my wife? How could he know about that? Did... did Ahsoka or Nizzal tell it to someone else? Could it be? No, Ahsoka would never do something like that... Then it could only be... that damwi'lek...

  -Was it her? That idiot twi'lek!

  I asked in a fused panic, my mind was clouded by anger and fear.

  -It does not matter. You have already failed. Your wife will suffer the sequences of your failure. Only then will you uand true terror.

  I was about to tackle the bastard even without a on, but he sent my lightsaber towards me with a saber throw. I had to dodge thehe force to take trol over it and pull it bato my grasp.

  When I looked back at the bastard I only saw the end of his cape, as he turned and walked away disappearing in the darkness.

  -You run, but you ot hide from me. In the end only I remain.

  -We will see about that.

  I spat the words after the man, whose form was clouded by darkness, pain and mysteries.

  Then the darkness began to dissipate, my bde color turned back to blue as I found myself ba the middle of my room, standing with an ignited bde.

  I looked around and turned off the bde, the presence I had sensed before, was gone.

  -Okay, what the hell was that!?

  Anakis a mysterious shadow.