STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Holocron

"Why don't you guys go back to ignoring me because we'll say whatever we want." Xavier fires back.

Dak narrows his slitted eyes in kind. "Yes, that's how it works. Because you have nothing on me. You wanna change it? Try being less of a *****. And shut up Xavier!"

"You why don't you shut up for a change Dak," Xavier jumps in narrowing his eyes.

"Then you might want to just get over it. And I'll stop being such a ***** when I'm not surrounded by people who infuriate me."

"It's our fault you're annoyed more easily than a pregnant rancor?" Dak says incredulously.

Are we there yet

"No not yet but we sure could use a drink," Xavier starts ignoring Dak and Rianna now.

"Always being stuck around people who irritate me greatly contributes to me being easily irritated - what a concept!" Rianna snaps back. "I know lizard brains are small, but surely you're smart enough to wrap your mind around an idea like that."

"...what?! If you weren't so irritable and ready to murder anyone at the drop of a hood, maybe you wouldn't find literally everyone else so irritating!"

Maybe they'll kill each other before the day is over

"Nah it would a big waste. They are good at what they do. And I don't know why I'm talking to you right now. I hate you, you know that right. I was hoping this trip may be pleasant one where those two would get along and I wouldn't have to deal with you for a change."

Yeah well get used to it because I'm not going anywhere and these people are still crazy

"Thanks for telling me something I already know."

"And do you think that no one else finds you annoying? And don't talk to me about being 'ready to murder' - or shall we see how long it takes for you to resort to violence after being told that your view of your skills doesn't quite live up to them in reality?"

Dak falls silent at that last remark, his eyes flashing dangerously. His voice falls to a low hiss. "You're too afraid to actually go that far, Rianna. Afraid of what will happen to you... Scared little girl in a big scary world, surrounded by monsters like me..."

Xavier tries to step in one more time and play peace keeper.

"Don't you guys think you are going a little too far. Can't we just have one pleasant trip away from everything and act professional."

"How dare you..." Rianna says quietly, glaring at him. "And afraid? Of what, you? You think I won't say it? Fine. You could never have handled actual training - Jedi training. The discipline and control it requires is beyond you, and it shows."

Dak barely resists going for his weapons. "My training was far harsher and demanding than the Jedi could ever dream to be with their mercy. Though I'm sure you'd know something about lacking discipline and control... otherwise you wouldn't have failed the Jedi and fallen to your pathetic state now."

If she wasn't so furious, Rianna would have laughed at that. "Mercy? You think that Jedi aren't capable of being harsh and demanding? I at least can recognize my weaknesses, instead of pretending they don't exist and convincing myself I'm far better than I really am. And I did not fail."

Xavier doesn't like hearing this talk of Jedi and their training

You know its true right. You failed at it. You lost everything you were supposed to become. You failed and look at you know you're less than anything you could have imagined. You hate it all you hate this life. YOu hate these people. Everyday in this pathetic existence is just a reminder that you're living a life you absolutely despise and hate. As MAster Cabas would said..."never should have"

Xavier clinches his teeth and closes his eyes, "Why won't you just be QUIET. I hate you" The words are stern as the barely make it passed his jaw.

"When I say merciful, Rianna, what I mean is no matter how mean to you they were being, no matter how much they were hurting your poor little feelings," Dak spits angrily, "They always stayed their hands before killing you. You never spent your childhood wondering if the only people you had to look up to were going to stab you in the back to teach a fatal lesson in awareness. You never sat starving for days because your master implied she poisoned your food. You were coddled by soft, caring protectors that you cast off because you knew you failed them..."

At that, Rianna snaps, and reaches out to grab Dak by the throat. "You dare...my own Master nearly killed me when I was a Padawan, after years of thinking that she was the only one I could ever trust and even that wasn't competely. And I did not fail. Why don't you ask Rand about how I fell to the Dark Side?"

You would ask Rand, but it is at this point that you realize that Rand and Galder have already left.

Dak pushes Rianna off roughly. "Wait, where'd they go? Damn it!" Dak will hurry to find the rest of the group, annoyed.