It is indeed early enough that stubble hasn't started yet, although Ibani would have forgotten that feeling entirely thanks to the sensation of Ben's lips against her thumb.
"You can not know for certain if any path is right," Ibani says quietly, leaning in close. "But the Dark side does not erase who the person was, whatever people might like to believe. Living in it too long can scar, wound, and twist, but it does not change a person so completely as that."
"I was lost in the Dark side, for a time, when my apprentices were murdered." Even now, their deaths hurt, an ache in the Force. "I tore the people who killed them apart with the Force, alive, and I don't know that I could have stopped myself from killing innocents in that time and that place, had there been any. It was love that brought me back, the love of my friends, them not losing hope."
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Date: 2020-08-11 12:05 pm (UTC)"You can not know for certain if any path is right," Ibani says quietly, leaning in close. "But the Dark side does not erase who the person was, whatever people might like to believe. Living in it too long can scar, wound, and twist, but it does not change a person so completely as that."
"I was lost in the Dark side, for a time, when my apprentices were murdered." Even now, their deaths hurt, an ache in the Force. "I tore the people who killed them apart with the Force, alive, and I don't know that I could have stopped myself from killing innocents in that time and that place, had there been any. It was love that brought me back, the love of my friends, them not losing hope."