The Truth Revealed

Mar's eyes widened. Suddenly he found himself back in his old Inquisitor armor. Standing before a weak and helpless Jedi. He was crushing him with the Force. Savoring the sickening pops and cracks as the Jedi's bones gave under the power of the dark side. And then a flash and he was seeing the entire crime unfold through Serenity's young, fearful, eyes.

"It was you... You're her master... I... I killed you..." Mar muttered as a wave of guilt, shame, and fear overwhelmed him.

He snapped back to the present, looked down at the slumbering Serenity next him and got up with a start as he looked to the ghost of her former master.

"I can't... I'm no Jedi... and if she were to find out... I'd lose her. She needs a better teacher. A real Jedi... not... me..." He shook his head. "I'm only going to take her further down the dark path. It's all I've known all my life. The light side... it's just a dream to me now... It's too late for me..."