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"Karzel, if you can't talk me out of it over chess, what makes you think you can talk me out of it in the market?"
"I can leave it alone for now," the man beside her concedes.
She sighs. "It's not as though you disagree that Darth Svahe needs to die. I don't understand why you're so dead-set on me not doing it."
"You know why."
"I know, but I don't understand."
"Yeah. That one's what I killed my master over; he wanted me tractable. So you can see where I'm sympathetic to your situation."
"We'll get him. Plenty of assholes out there, but that's no reason not to do something about this one."
"Darth Svahe is--well, a Darth. He operates within the Sphere of Mysteries. He mostly works with Force Sensitivity--he's done a lot of experiments on the possibility of inducing it, and he found a way to temporarily shut it down. He has three other apprentices, two of whom have apprentices of their own."
"He doesn't stay in one place for very long very often, and wherever he's staying will tend to be rigged with booby-traps."
"It sounds like he's moving a lot of people around, do you know how he handles the logistics of that?"
Headshake. "There was a lot of stuff he didn't tell me. I only know about the turning-off-Force-sensitivity thing because he used me as a test subject."
That gets a shudder. "Okay. So we'll definitely want an information-gathering phase - fortunately I'm a sensory specialist, if we can get me within a couple dozen miles I should be able to get a pretty good picture of what's going on."
"His other apprentices are Lord Enris, Lord Azahd, and Lord Janus. Lord Enris and Lord Azahd are the ones with their own apprentices, although I don't know their names. Lord Azahd is the one who does traps."
Nod. "Do you know how much of that is custom each time, versus pre-designed?"
"I know that they're usually similar but adjusted for the environment; I don't know how much of that is which."
"That should be enough. I read minds; I wouldn't expect to be able to go past the surface without being noticed, but if I listen to him design them, that works."
"Yeah - only a vague sense of emotions, by default, about as much as I get from body language, but something like this justifies more than that. Targeted, of course; I might need to read some of the victims to figure out what's going on with them, but I shouldn't need to do much of that."
"Yeah."
"I wouldn't expect most Sith to tolerate learning it - you might, though."
"Yeah. You - really get a view of people as people, that way. If someone's operating on the assumption that they don't matter, I'd expect it to throw them."
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