"Just when I was becoming used to having control of my own mind again."

"I think that might be the actual landscape."

"Small comfort."

"Yeah." Sigh.

Well, no way but forward.

The sense of impending dread grows stronger as they travel.

On the edge of hearing, whispers.

Is there gonna be a scream in the distance? She's holding out for the scream in the distance.

No scream. But how sure is she really that Occlus is back to normal? The Sith could snap again at any moment and in a confined space like this, Rafa would not last long at all.

She'd... be able to sense incoming danger and run if need be. And she studied a lot, it's unlikely that failed to work...

Sith are masters of deception. Remember when she killed Master Leuf? She enjoyed it. How can Rafa trust someone like that?

She can't, that's why she's decided she's going to kill Occlus. But not now, now they have to kill something even more​ evil than Occlus.

She's not going to get a chance if she doesn't act.

Yeah but she's not gonna act now, that'd be stupid and she's not stupid, she kills a big evil thing first, then a less big evil.

Occlus shifts in her seat and glances at Rafa.

An obvious prelude to an attack!

...what.

No, it's not. If Occlus wanted to attack her she'd be dead already, Occlus wouldn't give a sign, and—

"This is messing with my head."

"Oh good, it's not just me. I stand by my earlier 'dark side entity' assertion. Do you know any other techniques for hedging out unwanted mental influence?"

"Not... really. What was it telling you? It was—is trying to make me mistrust you and attack you preemptively so you don't do the same to me."

"It is attempting to imitate, poorly, the ghosts which were recently quelled. The originals had more convincing arguments."

"Yeah, doesn't seem to be good at argumentation. I don't want to trust that, in case it's just trying to lull us into a false sense of security in our ability to spot its flaws and then do something really subjectively convincing... but I'm not sure we actually have a choice."

"Once we are closer to the center of its power, I have no doubt its influence on our minds will be stronger."

"...perhaps Jedi lack of attachment helps with that."

"Or leave you without an anchor to resist the pull."

"Or that. We could... talk? About what goes on in our heads? Spot-check each other?"

"Something to focus on that is not that. A good idea."

"...you sure did change when the ghosts stopped ghosting at you, huh?"