STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Runaway

"I understand very well."

"Then you should not worry too much about your ship."

Trax looks confused. "You cannot leave?" he asks you.

"He cannot," Stathos speaks for you. "Xavier has been deemed a threat to himself by his inability to control his emotions. We don't want any harm to come to him or anyone else, so it is in his best interest..."

But every second you are in here, Xavier, is another second that Friste walks free.

"Yes but what is the best interest for the Galaxy, Friste Tem is still free and he will return."

"The Council has made its decision," Stathos says. "They disagree with you, and that's that. Besides, the Council has suspended the Order's mandate of bringing Dark Siders to justice since that Dark Jedi debacle on Malastare..."

He is not going to listen to you. Nobody is! You are the only person who recognizes what a threat Friste could become to the Galaxy! Svidrigailov was only interested in using his small army of pirates to increase his power in the slave trade and therefore his wealth. But Friste... is different.

Your senses are not great, Xavier, having not focused on that aspect of your training, but there is a feeling buzzing at the back of your mind that Friste will only be stopped if someone goes after him.

They won't listen to us. They will refuse to listen to us. We must show them we are right. Show them they are WRONG!

"By the will of the Counsel, can I please speak to my friend alone now."

Stathos frowns.

"Whatever you discuss, I am sure I can stand here and listen."

"Very well, it was personal to Trax and I did not know if he wished to share such things in public to other people, but if you insist on putting this before his privacy so be it."

Xavier turns to Trax, "I was wishing to ask how you had been adapting to no longer being a slave?"

"Uh, fine, I guess," Trax says.

Keep in mind it has only been a matter of days since the fight at Varloucant.

"So then there is nothing you would wish to speak about friend."

"Well... uh... the Republic is sorting out my papers," Trax says. "I'm not from here, you know. But they're granting temporary citizenship to the slaves."

"That is the way it should be."

"Yeah..." Trax says. He seems really confused.

"What do you seem confused on Trax."

"What are you doing?" he asks.

"I am simply trying to check on my friend."

Trax is grateful but can tell that this situation is awkward.

Is there something you are actually aiming to achieve, Xavier?

Yeah kinda sorta.

Xavier's main goal is to get make Trax realize that Xavier is trying to get a hint to him without Stathos catching on.

But what he wants to get across to Trax is when can he have the ship ready, that he knows that Xavier is trying to flee. Which is why he is trying to talk about Friste and talk about that he is a danger.

at least that is what Xavier is trying to do.

I can tell you that Stathos is growing more and more suspicious and irritable as this goes on. Soon he will insist upon you returning to the inner Temple, away from the starfreighter that could carry you out of the Temple and after Friste.

So are you saying Xavier should just make a break for it

😖hifty:

You may never get the chance again.