[Folding her hands in her lap, Barriss remains as placid as Master Yoda would expect, at peace and calm in the face of slings and arrows directed her way.]
I won't try and say it isn't at least a little ironic.
[Cold swirls around the two of them, more frost coating the entire garden as a kind of gloom settles into Barriss's heart.]
Maybe it's the Force telling me to fix what I've done wrong before it happens. It's not merely a coincidence. It can't be.
[A beat, a kind of rigidity settling into Barriss's posture, determination suffusing her emotions.]
Ahsoka, if you want revenge for whatever happened, I won't stop you from taking it. Just please consider how angry you are right now, and if I'm worth falling over.
[The thing is she won't. Not if it makes the Galaxy a better place, she'd give her life a dozen times over. And even in the face of this she still trusts Ahsoka to do the right thing.]
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I won't try and say it isn't at least a little ironic.
[Cold swirls around the two of them, more frost coating the entire garden as a kind of gloom settles into Barriss's heart.]
Maybe it's the Force telling me to fix what I've done wrong before it happens. It's not merely a coincidence. It can't be.
[A beat, a kind of rigidity settling into Barriss's posture, determination suffusing her emotions.]
Ahsoka, if you want revenge for whatever happened, I won't stop you from taking it. Just please consider how angry you are right now, and if I'm worth falling over.
[The thing is she won't. Not if it makes the Galaxy a better place, she'd give her life a dozen times over. And even in the face of this she still trusts Ahsoka to do the right thing.]