Force from the Other Side

Chapter Two

Ben was the age of 22 and had just turned so on the previous hour. He smiled. He was outside by the fountain with Amethyst. Sometimes they'd just sit and talk. "Do you ever wish that you could explore the galaxy?" Amethyst asked him.

"I will one day when I'm being a jedi and rescuing people."

"The First Order is getting stronger. Doesn't it worry you?"

"No." Ben answered. "It doesn't worry me at all."

Amethyst smiled and rested her head on his shoulder.

**

She stood in front of the three prison cell, now thirteen years old. "Behind this one." one of the jailors pointed. "Is someone who killed an important member of our order. Interrogate and find out who hired them." The jailor ordered Rey. "That is your task and your trial from your leader."

Rey nodded and the door to the cell opened. She walked inside and a woman sat up right on a bench inside. The door closed and Rey eyed the woman more.

"You know why you were arrested. You assassinated someone important in First Order intelligence. As talented and precise as your methods of assassination were, I doubt that you wouldn't have someone holding your leash. If you tell me who sent you, things could become a lot easier for you."

"You can torture me all day. All week. All month. My story will not change. It is the truth. I don't know who hired me. I'm a hired weapon. I don't care who does it, if they have the correct amount of money then I'm theirs. I have a dropbox that people leave money and an assignment in."

"And how do people know how much money to pay you?" Rey asked.

"They guess. If there isn't enough money, I take what they give me and leave the orders. It's how the system works. So they put more in."

"I see. Where is this dropbox, and who knows about it?"

"You send some whispers in Nar Shaddaa you get attention from the correct people."

"Nar Shaddaa. No wonder you turned to killing people for a living." Rey sat down.

"You kill people for a living."

"You simplify me. I'd be insulted if I had time to be. I think I have the information from you. You'll understand that you will never be allowed complete freedom."

"Yes." she uttered.

Rey stood up and left the cell, the door closing behind her.

"Right so what's your choice for the bitch. Keep her locked up? Or Kill her."

"There is a third option of which you've not considered. She is skilled. I will not deny it. There was numerous precautions taken to protect the very pig she assassinated's life."

"A pig? You insult..."

"Yes I do. I've met him several times and his character was more flawed than your face. This is why the First Order still isn't succeeding. Idiots like him and idiots like you run it. That woman will be given a job as an operative of ours."

She stepped up to the second cell. An alien lay on the ground in chains. He had no bench, just cold floor. Inequality between the species in the empire had always been somewhat strong. "He was smuggling cargo for the Resistance."

"Was he now?"

"I didn't know. I didn't know I swear. I thought they were genuine. Please. Please." The creature begged from inside the cell.

After interrogating him, Rey stood up. "Let him go. He's telling the truth."

"Let him go?" the jailor asked shocked.