STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Initiation

Rianna will do her best to try and stay calm, but she can't help but think about those things, as well as the fact that she hates waiting on anything.

On the other hand, it's distracting her from thinking about what had happened before she woke up here...

Focusing on something else may help.

Hell, Rianna will try to meditate. It's never been something she was much good at, but if it'll help, she's willing to give it a go.

What will you dwell upon during your meditation?

Anything that isn't the current situation...

Rianna's still curious about the glimpses of visions she had seen, on Taneshla and Bespin. She still wants to know what they are and figures it'd be safer than working herself into a panic, and she doesn't want to admit to what she wound up doing on Bespin.

Certainly! What did you see in those visions?

I don't actually remember, beyond the first just showing her a glimpse of a red cloak.

Yes, you did see the red cloak. Where else did you see it?

The Crimson Queen wore one...and then Gallador threw it at Rianna.

Yes. So why did it appear to you?

Well, I know it was a glimpse of who she becomes... 😛

Rianna doesn't know that.

No she doesn't. She has no idea why she saw that, or why Rand chose to hide that vision from her. She still wants to know what the actual vision was.

Why does Rand do anything to you?

Because he's been determined for ages that Rianna fall to the Dark Side and become his apprentice. He was probably hoping the frustration of not knowing what it was would make her do what he wanted.

Simple curiosity does not draw Force-Users to the Dark Side of the Force.

No, but he did apparently have a dozen other plans as well...maybe it would have given away something.

Also curious how he knew where she was from. I don't know if Rianna even knew that - somehow I doubt that sort of thing is public record.

Essentially, though, Rianna doesn't know why Rand felt the need to hide it from her. She's not entirely sure that the vision even existed in the first place - if you can hide a vision from someone, surely you can plant a bit of one in their mind? But, really, she doesn't understand why Rand does anything he does. Or why he was even so set on her in the first place.

It may not be public record. The Jedi Archives would certainly have that information.

It is clear that Rand is powerful in the Force enough to cast his shadow over others. You aren't certain that the Force works that way, or that even the most powerful Sith Lords were able to do that.

Though again, studies in Jedi Lore aren't your strongest.

Nope, something that Rianna is rather regretting...

And nope, she's not sure that it could work that way, but neither had she heard before of someone hiding a vision from another person, so who knows?

The ability of the Dark Side to cloud visions is something the Sith of old could do. You suppose it is no surprise that other adherents to the black ways can do it too.

So you think Rand was hiding something important from you? Something that he was doing?