STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Initiation

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"Curiosity..." Rianna replies. "As far as I knew, this planet didn't exist any longer."

Also, what is Vash's reaction to all of this?

You're not sure. He's nowhere to be seen.

"It very much does," the gurgling Myraline says. "Why are you here?!"

Wasn't he with her...?

"I am here because I was brought here!" Rianna replies. "To try and train me in the Dark Side...which I want nothing to do with!"

Yes we was, wasn't he?

The phantasm Myraline laughs.

"We sense the darkness in you," 'Myraline' says. "That is undeniable truth."

"I will not give in to it," Rianna states. "What happened to Vash? He was here...and now he isn't."

"You already have," says 'Myraline.' "So did we all."

"I don't believe that...I can stay who I am and resist it."

Myraline just laughs.

"So you say," Myraline says.

The hands begin to pull you up from the ground, appearing merely as vapor and taking form just before pushing into your skin. They pull you upright then begin shoving you across the clearing. You stay clear of Myraline.

"The forest will show you that you are wrong."

"What are you doing to me? What are you?!" Rianna says, pushing back against the hands.

As before, it is no use. It is like trying to fight a strong current.

The mist that permeates the forest grows thick around you, and dancing through the fog and trees you catch glimpses of images. Images of yourself, cutting down foe after foe after foe. Some of the people you recognize...

"Rianna, no!" Ciira shouts, her lightsaber raised against your onslaught. Your blades cross repeatedly until she gives a blood-curdling shriek and vanishes into the fog...

Most of the people you cut down, you can only place them based on what they're wearing. Some men from the farmhouse on Reecee, a few of the Wing Guards, miners on Ord Coridari... more than you can count.

You are tempted to think that this is the overwhelming amount of death that you sensed, until you realize "Myraline" is gliding beside you.

"We sense the murderer in you," the specter says. "The Jedi killed in our day. Never so many like this. Do you remember them all?"

"They were not my fault...not all..." Rianna says, flinching away.

"We do not judge you," 'Myraline' says. "We killed many in our time. Indiscriminately and without mercy. You have done the same."

The Crimson Queen burns alive on her throne, somewhere out in the fog.

"I did not kill her...the Crimson Queen. She took her own life," Rianna says.

"What is the point of showing me this?"

"We know not what you see but what you feel," 'Myraline' says. "You see the dead that come from your actions."

The splinters form in the fog and begin to sieve with molten rock. The screams of thousands echoes through your mind; you never heard the sound from the ship...

"The forest shows you the Dark Side."

"I don't want to see this!" Rianna says, trying to back away again. She doesn't want to hear those screams...

You back away and trip, landing on your back in the mud.

And then the screams stop, and everything swirling about you disappears. Except the fog. That lingers. As do the drops from the trees.

Rianna will pick herself back up out of the mud...again...though she is glad she is no longer hearing those screams. That's something that will haunt her...

Is "Myraline" still there?

No. You are alone.

Rianna wants out of and away from this forest. She's not even going to look for Vash - she's leaving.