Three weeks after the defeat of the false Emperor, most of the confusion about the dissolution of the Coalition has died down. Occlus summons her apprentice to her office, to discuss training her newfound ability.
Occlus and Callida visit the future, canon divergence after thread IV of Ascendancy
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"Perhaps it took me eighty years to find her and I scoured half the planets in the galaxy. You do not know how much effort I expended, and writing that off as fortune might be a thing one could take offense at."
"I apologize," says Grand Admiral Thrawn, mildly, "for any implied insult."
He gives her a look that says that he does not for a second believe she took eighty years to find her apprentice. But he doesn't challenge her assertion.
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"There's no need to look like that, Captain. I am not one of the volatile Sith."
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