#droiddraws

“The Dark side surprises people. You think it surrounds you, and it does, but you believe you can keep it at bay, protect yourself from allowing it to taint you so long as you’re pure of heart. The truth is that it’s something you carry within you. It sprouts and grows strong inside you little by little, in the things you do and say until it’s all you have. Then there are no other choices but to continue nourishing it because without it there’s nothing of you left.”

“One thing I can teach you is that strength, power and companionship from the Dark side is the greatest reward of being an inquisitor. I don’t care who they point me at if it means I can get closer to it.”

Read Always Red here

“Up to a certain point it’s the same process. Pursuing a lover, stalking prey. No matter how you slice that cake, a hunt is a hunt. The whole thing is inherently romantic”.

“Your love is the chase then, and not the chased.” Trilla wants to make him eat his words even when she knows to engage him this way is a downward spiral when he must prove he is right.

“Usually, but not this time.” Cal surprises her with this admission. “Well, yeah, hunting her is-“, the Eleventh Brother pushes back to look at the ceiling as though the word he’s searching for is written there, “exhilarating. But it’s more than that. When we fight it’s like… poetry.”

Read Always Red here

This is part of my cowboy Grogu agenda! Reference under the cut.