"I will."

Rafa focuses inwards, on herself, and outwards, on the Force. She's a vessel for the Force, a tool—except she has a will, and she will shape the Force however she wants.

She waits.

More beastly growls.

Sure it can growl as much as it wants, the problem is if it does something.

Here comes a problem, then.

She tightens her grip on her saber and readies herself.

It's another of one of the big, ugly, and spiky. This one seems to have some sort of mechanical construct replacing one eye.

"Do you want to be added to the pile of things like you we've killed?" she asks. "Because I'm perfectly fine with that but you might want to run instead."

It doesn't seem capable of understanding her words. It charges.

She dodges, making sure to strike him with the saber in the same movement.

That trips it up and it falls short of connecting with Occlus. There's a chittering rustle overhead, like hundreds of bat wings.

And she aims for its head (such a good place to aim) with her saber—

The mechanical components spark and hiss when cut by the lightsaber. Looks like there was significant reinforcement to the skull. Not enough, of course.

The rustling gets louder-

She whirls on the spot and targets her lightning up in the ceiling's direction—

Dozens of crispy winged corpses rain down.

Is anyone else lining up to be fried? She's just getting started.

A pack of four dog-like things she'll recognize as being favored pets of the Gormak, with similar mechanical enhancements to the big creature she just killed.

She twirls her saber in one hand and takes a stance.

A volley of blasterfire accompanies the dogs' attack.

She can block that—where'd it come from—

Behind the dogs, which have impressively sharp teeth.

...she will be an instrument of the Force. She will shape the Force. Through power, she gains freedom.

She throws her saber in the direction the blasterfire came from and lightning-bolts the dogs.

Dogs howl, blasters stop.

...this is kinda fun.

She'll examine that emotion later.

One of the dogs shakily tries to stand again.

Zap!