‘That disturbingly fident voice of a woman filled the air. Sending shivers up and down my back.’

  ‘I couldn’t help it. I was still dazed, and everythi happening too quickly for me to prepare for anything. It was rare to say something like this for me, but I was pletely out of my element right now. While everybody seemed to know who I was, at least to a degree.’

  ‘All of this is because of those damnable droids! No… not the droids, it’s because of Revan! That ghostly bastard keeps messing up my life! Is this because I called out on his huge ass nose? He ’t be that petty, or he?’

  ‘My thoughts were cut short as the strict voice appeared again.’

  “You are either brave or foolish to enter my quarter without announg your own arrival. Such ignorance is rare for a sve of my pace.” — ‘Souhe voice, then it turned harsher giving me an order, which I could feel on my prig skin was expected to be followed.’ — “e to the baly, now.”

  ‘I hesitated for a sed, mumbling silently.’ — “Announg myself?” — ‘I guess that was the part I missed... damn... Let’s hope that it was the only part…’

  ‘Then I gathered myself and walked hastily out to the baly. As I stepped out into the fresh air, I found myself in front of the feline Queen of Zygerria.’

  ‘Still, not before I noticed four assassin droids ihe room, which I just left behind and two more on the baly, ag as guards.’

  ‘The droids were a model I had no information on. I never saw these types of droids before. They were likely designs made for the queen’s specific request. It was not rare for rich aristocrats or rulers to have secret designs of droids or some specially trained royal guards.’

  ‘The way they followed my every move aure, I got the feeling that if I even tried to raise a fi the queen, I would be cut down immediately.’

  ‘I gulped drily, sensing the queen’s cold eyes on me. I immediately quied my steps.’

  ‘I walked before her and stopped at a reasonable distanot too close and not too far. I lowered my head and csped my hands in front of myself modestly, remembering to the mirian boy’s words.’

  ‘There was a long silence, as the queen took in my appearance zily. She was sitting in front of me in a richly designed armchair and a simir table o her with some refreshments and vine. She was robed in a dark blue, elegant silk dress decorated with golden accessories that atuated her rge golden eyes.’

  ‘She lightly tasted the vine which repared for her, thely put down the gss. Finally deg to speak to me.’

  “Now, I see that you have some manners, after all. I might fo your punishme for barging into my chamber rudely.”

  ‘She stared at me without a sense of shame or frustration. As if she was simply looking at a ro the side of the road, instead of looking at an actual person.’

  “You must be one of my new properties. Whie are you? Tell me your name, girl.”

  ‘I gulped. This was definitely not something I expected to happen to me after esg that prisoransport ship.’

  ‘My throat felt unusually dry as my tired nerves danced uhe heavy stare of the woman. Before I realized I found myself naturally answering her question.’

  “My name is Nizzal, mistress.”

  ‘The rea was immediate. The queen’s expression turned into a blossoming smile, as if she have finally received a long awaited gift.’

  “Ah! Finally! The fallen apprentice has arrived. What a rare prize you are. I have been looking forward to our enter.” — ‘She tapped on the armrest of her chair.’

  “You must have been already notified of your atus as my sve. I ordered one of my boys to usher you in front of me right after you were forcefully awakened from hibernation.”

  ‘She smiled, seeing the f frown on my face.’

  “I wao see if the rumors were true. That jedi, or in your case ex-jedi, could indeed quickly assess new situations. Knowing that most people after years long carbonation couldn’t even stand up for days and would be pletely blinded for a simir amount of time, I will say you passed my little test with flying colors.”

  “How fasating indeed.” — She chuckled joyfully. — “You are a surprisingly cute little thing. I like seeing that pouting expression. I see that you want to say something…” — She sighed. — “Fine, humour me.”

  ‘I blinked slowly, then I hesitantly asked.’

  “May I have a few questions?”

  ‘The woman waved my question off with a desdiure of her hand.’

  “Unnecessary, you will have the opportunity to ask them ter from the other sves. I hope you don’t io bore me with your meaningless s? Oh, and if you once again fail to properly address me, there will be sequences. Do you uand?”

  ‘I gred at the woman, momentarily overe by hatred towards her and this entire pce.’

  ‘She was a plete bitch. Someohat I have decided to hate with my whole being. For a moment I fantasized if it would be worth the risk to attempt to throw her off this baly? Unfortunately, the importance of the archive’s safety within me, pared to some humiliation, was easily outweighed. I forced myself to calm down and cm up instead of itting some suicidal mistake that I would quickly regret.’

  ‘I lowered my gaze, deg to gre at the floor in front of my feet aually said.’

  “I uand, mistress.” — ‘The woman’s expression morphed into a satisfied cat like grin, and I realized that she was enjoying this. She was enjoying to see my iruggle and the ways I tried to oppose her, only to realize that I couldn’t.’

  ‘Yet above all, she enjoyed seeing my growing desperation as my freedom was taken away step by step, while I couldn’t do anything against it.’

  “Take off your outer cloak. I want to i you more closely.” — ‘She demanded.’

  ‘I blinked.’

  ‘That request sourongly suggestive, but, well, it’s not like I would like to have a taste of that energy whip, which is dangling on the side of the queen.’

  ‘I slowly took off the dark green full body cloak that was hiding me from sight. I pced it down on a nearby chair and turned back towards the queen.’

  ‘Yet, aside from a quice at her face, I didn’t really look at her much. The mirian boy specifically told me not to.’

  ‘I was doomed to study the queen’s carpets draped over the floor of this high-css baly.’

  ‘While my newly received clothes gently filed in the wind.’

  ‘My handmaiden clothes uhe outer cloak are pretty , at least. It took some time to figure out how to properly wear them.’

  ‘Its position is made from two colors, white and dark green. It is still mostly green, though. Only the stogs and the long sleeves on my arms are white. This robe was so needlessly plicated that I could only sigh in relief when I finally mao figure it out.’

  ‘Thankfully, I had some old memories to fall ba, and they also gered by this annoying mirian brat stantly spitting bullshit at me.’

  ‘It turns out, my memory lihird master was a mirian woman as well. The mirians are known to have a notorious love for traditional robes, and traditional things in general.’

  ‘Back then, by that I mean a few thousand years ago, it was even worse. It is not that strao hat master Locie Grey was stantly wearing robes that were somewhat simir in appearao the dress I now have on my body. By the way, she was one of the few masters in our memory lihat chose the title of Grey Jedi over the other.’

  ‘Having nothier to do while enduring the queen’s stare, I decided to tihinking about my new clothes.’

  ‘The robes from bottom to top are these.’

  ‘A simple pair of bck shoes, no high heels thank the force. White stogs, a hidden from view white underskirt, and a dark green outer skirt that reaches about mid calf, showing off a little from my stogs.’

  ‘Then there is a white chemise which is hidden by a dark green short-sleeved outer shirt. Which is also partially hidden by a dark brown colored corset pced tightly on top of the whole, tied around my waist.’

  ‘There were also the white sleeves, which are actually pletely separate pieces. You just pull them up on your forearms and tie the ends to the rest. Oh, and there was the outer cloak, which I just removed. It was created to be thin, but was made from a more durable fabric, equipped with a hood to hide the wearer’s face or protect it from chilly winds.’

  ‘While my currently fused and overwhelmed mind decided to go on a rampage about my current clothes as, it was the only thing that it could analyze without a hitch. The queen was walking around me and stantly poking me left and right, as if that was the most natural thing to do.’

  ‘From a third person’s perspective, this whole sario would seem ridiculously hirious. But, from my point of view, as someone who was forced to e, this ecial kind of humiliation.’

  ‘After a few minutes, I realized that this damn woman had no on sense, and probably hadn’t even heard the word personal space. The crazy bitch randomly decided to cup my breasts and size them up practicably. As if it was natural to do so, as if she was doing it to herself.’

  ‘I was so startled by the audacity that I couldn’t eve, staring at her hands on my breasts in disbelief.’

  ‘Only for her to say a few seds ter, with a lopsided tone.’

  “Hmm... Quite disappointing, really, but it will have to do. You might still grow yet…” — ‘I blinked, and ground my teeth silently, fighting down my growing blush of shame, and the urge to sp this bitch to oblivion. How dare she!”

  ‘A, she tio insult me left and right.’

  “Twi’leks might have a naturally delicate frame, but I just ruly uood the charm of a bald female, with tentacles on her head. It’s quite disturbing if anything.” — ‘She stated while prodding my leks this way then that way.’ — “Still, better this than having another rodian.”

  ‘Then she grabbed my hand, feeling out my skin with a frown.’ — “Oh, my… What is with your dry, sickly looking skin? It feels like toug a dried plum. This won’t do at all…” — ‘She shook her head in disappoi.’

  ‘That’s… that’s because I was barely brought out of hibernation! I cried out internally at the injustice.’

  “Your nails are horrible as well, tsc-tsc-tsc…” — ‘She walked behind me once again while shaking her head in disapproval.’

  ‘At which point I ractically shaking with barely tained rage.’

  ‘Right then, before I could realize what was about to happen, she pinched my butt, quite harshly. Causio jolt out of my stupor with a girlish shriek. Of which I was not proud.’

  ‘I jumped away from the queen on instinct, whirling around while rubbing the painfully throbbing spot on my bum.’

  ‘I heard the heavy movements of the assassin droids stepping closer to me, ready to subdue me or worse if I did anything untoward to the queen.’

  ‘I gulped, and didn’t dare to raise my arms any further. Shaking with rage, I became aware of the jovial ughter happening in the background.’

  ‘She was ughing at me. The fug bitch! ractically r with ughter after seeing my previous rea.’

  “Oh, that was nice… I like your voice, at least. I could feel the utter disbelief in it.” — ‘She chuckled.’

  ‘That was the moment when I had enough of this madness. As a mix of frustration, anger, helplessness, and embarrassment overcame my logical thoughts. Coupled with a flushed fad a disgusted expression, I backed away from this crazy bitd began to lecture her.’

  “Y-y-yo-you shouldn’t randomly tou-touch people like that! Were you dropped on your head as a child or wh-what?! Get away from me, freak! Why don’t you go and die in a er and leave me alone? For fuck’s sake!”

  ‘This has definitely sounded better in my mind. But it was a start. I defiantly looked right in the eyes of the momentarily surprised queen.’

  ‘I genuinely expected her to sp me, or activate the shock colr or whatever. But it didn’t happen.’

  ‘Instead, her previously bored expression seemed to e to life with excitement.’

  ‘Her feline, cat like smile widened dangerously, as she watched my new rea with glee. As if she was fasated by a oy. Probably that was exactly the case.’

  ‘With uionable fidence, she began to walk towards me. That loth-cat like grin growing with every step. And since I could not fight back, I mean, I could fight back, but I don’t want to die stupidly. Therefore, I decided to do the best thing, which was evidently to back away at the same speed she was ing towards me.’

  ‘Which seemed to amuse her feliure. Her rge bck pupils widened eerily as they focused on me in their newfouement.’

  ‘She smirked and began to talk.’

  “It turns out you do have a spier all. I was starting to worry, si took so long to get a rea out of you.”

  “It’s a pity that it is not me, but you who o reevaluate your position, my cute little mouse. But there is o be afraid. I won’t break you. After all, I paid the price of a small castle to buy you. It is nothing too fancy, but still, for a single sve, it is a heavy price even for a queen such as myself.”

  “Ah, but the price of a young, healthy arained force wielder with a spark of uniqueness was always astronomical. Not eveioning that you are in just the right age to be trained. You are simir to a rare wih a touch of darkness. A jedi apprentice of the famous General Kenobi, that has supposedly fallen to the dark side and escaped the cil’s judgment. Only to be caught inside my web before her desired freedom. Hah! It’s a pity that you remind me much more of a scared mouse at the moment.”

  “Still, I should warn you… don’t get too ahead of yourself, because if you do you will taste my whip, among other things.”

  ‘My vision was still tunnel like, and blurry from, the hibernation siess. Only by stantly eling the force for healing my whole body was I able to see this much.’

  ‘My reserves were running low, I felt weak, my limbs were heavy, and slow to respond. My mind was also easily distracted. These were side effects of long-term hibernation. Except maybe the general numbness around my whole body. That should be the effect of being hit two times in a row with a paralyzing beam, fug droids.’

  ‘It was at that moment that I bumped into something. While skittering backwards.’

  ‘I looked behind me in a burst of panid realized with icy dread spreading ay veins that while I was distracted by the queen’s threats, I had been slowly trapped in a er of the baly.’

  ‘On one side, there was a bottomless pit of a cliff. Oher, a psychotic queen with a pair of deadly droids.’

  ‘A smug expressioled on the queen’s features. She was siingly proud with the feat of trapping a so-called fallen jedi appreo a er. Such feat was deemed to have been written down in the archives of the Zygerrian civilisation, but I bet they wouldn’t mention the fact that it was already a challenge for this force-wielder to stand straight in her current state of hibernation siess.’

  ‘There was o run anymore. I couldn’t attack her and I couldn’t escape either. I decided to stop struggling for now and awaited her punishment for my defiance.’

  ‘Seeing that I accepted my fate, she walked in front of me and looked down at me with a patronising smile. What the heck. I only realized it now, but this woman was huge. I mean, I was somewhat short for my age, but this woman towered over me.’

  ‘While I was momentarily intimidated by her height, she roughly grabbed my face with one hand, f me to look her in the eye.’

  ‘She told me slowly, not letting go of my cheek for even a sed.’

  “You are mine. I have bought you, every part of you belongs to me. It is time to uand that, but you are lucky, since I am in a good mood today, and I want you to be more than a simple sve. I have enough mindless followers already.”

  “Be gd for it, because I decided to not send you to be processed by professional sve trainers. While they are doubtlessly effective, their methods tend to break the mind.”

  “I will train you personally. You will soon learn your p my pace, as one of my many handmaidens. But simply doing that would be a waste of yh potential. You will also be my secret bodyguard.”

  ‘I looked at this brazen woman, who was still holding my fa her hand, like I was a doll or something.’

  ‘While stantly spouting nonsense. Sure, I will protect you. Yeah, why not? Oh wait, she is holding me captive as her sve, while ag as the ultimate priaybe I won’t then. Hope you get assassinated in your sleep, bitch.’

  “Is that a spark of defiance I see in your eyes?”

  “Good, it would be b if you just gave in so easily. I am not the type of woman that would beat you bd blue, like my less sophisticated trainers do. I think it degrades the quality of sves.”

  “I decided to use a more, some may say, unotivation. I think you will like this one.” — ‘She chuckled, clearly satisfied with my worried expression.’

  “I have ordered some of my men to p automatic trigger inside your colr. It is directly lio my life signals through the immunity enhanano maes cirg in my bloodstream. Which means, if my life signals disappear for more than three minutes, it will trigger a meism that will iwelve different types of slow-ag and incredibly painful, lethal poisons into your neck.”

  “I know that some of you Jedi are well versed in mysterious and potent healing arts. Yet in this case, even if by some miracle you mao stay alive, the pain that will be stantly geed by the damaged tissues that the acidic poisons will iably leave behind will certainly drive you mad in a few hours. So if that happens, I suggest you to not heal your injuries at all, since you will only elongate your suffering. Best to end it quickly if that unfortuuation es to pass.”

  ‘Okay....’

  ‘At the end of her speech, I was breathiically. I was also drenched i, staring at her with wide, terrified eyes. There were so many things wrong with her statements… I just had to ask…’

  “But, but... what if you... got randomly assassinated by someone, or die in an act, or through a natural siess? Or the e simply breaks actally?”

  ‘She looked at me with a thoughtful expression, as if that possibility hadn’t even crossed her mind until now... Is that… is that actually the case? Oh, no... she is even crazier than I thought.’

  “Hmm... for the assassination, I would advise you to work hard, and therefore not let me get assassinated. If you fail to do so, you deserve the punishment.”

  ‘She finally released my fad began to walk bato her chamber.’

  “And what about the other two possibilities?” — ‘She pointed a dangerous look at me over her shoulder and I quickly added mistress to the end of the sentence.’

  “Hmm? Oh, it is only natural for the personal servants of a queen such as me to follow her into the lo voyage, don’t you think? And don’t worry, it’s uhat the e would break for three miraight. After all, if that happens, then I would have to cut off a few heads as a proper punishment for ruining one of my precious sves.”

  ‘I blihen I blinked again.’

  ‘What?’

  ‘Suddenly I felt incredibly weak in my knees... First the jedi and now... this... eo a nihilistic-sadist sver queen... Without on sense... Why does fate hate me so much...’

  ‘The answer was simple… Revan… It was all because of him!’

  ‘A blurry memory of a versation surfaced in my mind. A versatioween an infuriating droid and a somewhat familiar voice...’

  ‘Where did I hear this voice before... Another piece of information surfaced to that thought, it was a hat I retly heard, Lord R., I sehat my expression turned into a infuriated one, and I khat my eyes were glowing yellht now.’

  ‘Revan, you are lucky to be dead, because if you weren’t, I would kill yht now. So this was yht idea to teach me a lesson!? Pray to the ford every deity in the gaxy, and behind that that I will never find a way to destroy your force presence, or seal it away in a jar and then drop it into the deepest and darkest hole that I could find in the gaxy. Because if I do find such a teique, you are finished.’

  ‘While I was redoing my oath of vengeahe queen turned around and looked at my expression with a newfound fasation.’

  “Magnifit. The legendary golden eyes of the sith. You were worth every credit I have sent over as a token of my appreciation for the high quality gift. I almost physically feel the rage and hate you emit, but why isn’t it focused on me, I wonder? Is that aimed at one of your old masters, perhaps?”

  ‘I looked up at her with a new spike e.’

  “Ah, so that is the case. Hmm... Show me that you are worthy of my trust sve, and maybe, just maybe, I will even sider helping you enact your revenge. I see that you are not really a jedi, and you fell far short on unreasoe to be a sith. You had stuewhere betweewo, and both of them were hating you quite clearly.”

  “What do you say, little mouse? Serve me well and you will be rewarded. Fail me, and you will be punished. Accept it, because this is your new life. With me, you shall live or die.”

  “It is the way of life inside my pace. Oh… and by the way, do you have a niame?” — ‘She asked sounding almost bored at the ge of topic.’

  “... My friends used to call me Nizzy, mistress.” — ‘I answered, struggling to keep the lid on my erratically boiliions.’

  “Good, then I will use it as well. Follow me, Nizzy. I wish to go bay room.”

  ‘I tagged along, always a few steps behind her, just like in the Jedi Temple. Always walk just a step behind your master, even if the world here meant something distinctly different and much more sinister.’

  ‘As the inteions slowly left my body, I felt a fresh wave of weakness and tiredness assaultihe queen also seemed to realize this, and she allowed me to sit down in an armchair where I almost immediately fell asleep, while she was telling me what she expected me to do from now on.’

  ~oOo~

  The moment when the overly excited queen realized that her new pet dared to fall asleep after she graciously offered her to sit down, a sudden spike of anger ran through her.

  She walked to the useless girl’s side, pnning to sp her awake. But even her heart, which tradig the pace sves on beliefs, still existed, began to feel some measure of pity for the exhausted sve girl. Who was left behind in an unfamiliar world and time, after being frozen in carbonite for over two years.

  There were rge circles under her eyes and an unnatural paleo her skin, which seemed to get worse since her eyes had turned yellow previously. But even her natural pink eyes seem to be strahey gave a feeling as if they didn’t belong there, on a child.

  “Humph, then, sleep if you must, useless ss. But you will work twice as hard tomorrow. And don’t think I fet about your little act of insoleo think that you proposed the idea of me being dropped on my head as a child! Preposterous! Kneeling in the er for three ours in the m and no breakfast or lunch should suffice as a start. Then I will have to get creative. The girl is proud. Let’s curve this pride as fast as possible. I have no patience for stubborn children.”

  Then the queen decided to take a nap herself after watg the girl sleep in her seat. I will che the other sves tomorrow.

  This had been a long day already.

  Ruling a p is nothing short of tiresome, and she only expects so little iurn after doing so much administration work.

  She will have to figure out how this mysterious Lord R. mao get such a high-quality sve, but that wait for tomorrow... now it is time to rest.

  The queen id into her luxurious bed and quickly fell asleep, sleeping as soundly as any i child. And why would she worry? It was her right as a queen to rule over life ah. Those races that have fallen under her whip were all the proof for her magnanimity.

  In this world, power and violence were the only truly universal nguages.

  Apparently, she had been well versed in both.