When that crimson blade came slicing through the air, slashing down onto the paralyzed woman's back; when her body soundlessly collapsed, her eyes wide open and unseeing; when the roaring fire consumed her body, her ash swept away by the droids, everyone thought Trilla Sudari was dead. All of them were wrong. Legends told of phoenixes burning away in a blaze of glory when they die, only to reborn from the ashes, as something new, yet also retaining their old self. They say all legends were based on truth, they were not wrong. Trilla Sudari had been burned away in a blazing inferno; rising from her ashes, Aaliyah Rivera stood tall and proud.