Argyyle stared at Fiona, shocked and surprised at, but not altogether displeased with, this display of emotion. His voice filled with puzzlement as he said to her, "What do you mean, I didn't die? I felt the sabre penetrate my brain, felt it when he returned me to life. Felt my resurrection....felt the void steal my soul." Argyyle shivered with remembered revulsion and terror.
Fiona shook him, until he looked at her again. " Look at me Argyyle, listen to me.!"
Argyyle stared into his sisters normally green eyes blazing gold with intensity, his voice barely more than a whisper, " I am listening, Fi. I just don't understand what your saying. How could I not have died? I FELT it, I felt my life expire....." Argyyle shivered again.
Fiona shook him harder, then spoke to him softly with a firm edge to her voice, " Argyyle don't think about the death...do you remember when your forehead was burned by the lightsaber?"
Argyyle frowned, nodding. " Yes."
Fiona continued, " Do you remember walking away?"
Argyyle nodded once more, blood oozing from beneath the synthskin, "Yes, I do...and then that bastard screamed into my mind...and then I died...." Argyyle's eyes widened.
Fiona kept up the persistent questions, waiting for him to see what she had. " How did you die, Argyyle? Where were you standing?"
Argyyle said, "He hit me through the forehead with his lightsabre...but he couldnt have because i was walking away."
Fiona's eyes gleamed with the light of victory... even the powerful made mistakes, " Yes, Argyyle... you didn't die... he only made us think you had... when I murdered Kirialen, I felt him die... I did not feel you die. He tricked us, Argyyle. "
Argyyle's eyes grew cold and distant, and the core of hate that was reserved for his father grew large enough for another. One perhaps more deserving, even than Roka Zantor, though this did nothing to change his feelings on THAT.
Fiona's eyes narrowed, " Ulic also told me that he could form me into whatever he wanted and that I would never know. He talked about perfect soldiers that would have the mind he chose for them."
He quickly released her before she could grow angry with him again and pulled her towards the bunk, the twins sitting side by side. He pondered what she just told him, " Tell me what else that bastard said."
Fiona didn't realize her brother had hugged her, until he was releasing her, she decided not to comment because she was still very angry with him, at the moment their safety was paramount. She sat down next to him on the bunk, thinking about what had transpired and the ramifications of that. " I asked him if he really did kill you,
not that I had thought it out then... something just felt wrong about it..."
Argyyle nodded, listening very carefully.
Fiona said thoughtfully, " He said, 'Did you see him die, did you see his wound, did you feel his death?' When I told him that didn't answer my question, he said 'Yes he died' and told me to ask you what that felt like."
Argyyle shuddered, the terror abating now that he knew it wasn't real, "It didn't feel like anything... I was simply... not there.. .I don't know how to describe it. It's as if I were erased for a moment... not like when your sleeping, you know where you were, even though you can't remember. It's... darker, for lack of a better word.
Fiona, I have never been scared of anything in my entire life. Today, I was terrified."
Fiona shivered, " Me too, brother... why couldn't father have prepared us for this... why did he leave us without telling us what we needed to know?"
Argyyle said, "Because he's a shortsighted weakling, and because he couldn't teach us what we needed to know. Because all he could see was his dear, dead wife. May the force save us from ever being that single-minded."
Fiona turned and looked at Argyyle a hint of worry in her voice, " He asked about our bond and said he could easily find out about it....what does that mean?"
Argyyle said, "I don't know what it means...I think we need to explore our bond more fully, to understand it ourselves."
Fiona ignored his comment, she had no desire to bond with Argyyle again. What happened last time must never happen again! She attempted to distract him from that train of thought by saying, " If this is how father's friends treat us, what about all the others out there?"
Argyyle said, "What about them? They can't all be bent on killing untrained Sith. And make no mistake, Sister, we are Sith."
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