Usually on a long journey, she was motivated to delve deeper into the Darkside and explore it's areas previously unknown to her. Usually, she had caused half the items in the ship to explode from Force Lightning. It was always her favorite technique, something about making one's hate for something else operate like the protons and electrons intrigued her. Even more intriguing was how she could find it in herself to hate inanimate objects, if only for the sake of practice, and then use her connection to the Darkside to defy conventional physics and cause a glass bottle to explode in a hot white flash. Hating a person was always easier than the bottles, but getting a person to act as a willing target was often difficult, though her apprentice, Alazne Gni, had done it just once for her willingly, and a few times unwillingly. While she cared about the young woman, it did delight her to watch her apprentice writhe on the ground in pain. She couldn't escape the fact that she was afraid of Alazne Gni and then Fear, anger and hatred and all that, it came as no shock that Alazne found herself on the receiving end of Rikke's lightning when she really deserved praise.

Alazne Gni could be the end for me. She thought to herself.

Though if Alazne Gni failed this mission, it would be Rikke's chance to ensure that she could not rise through the ranks she could dismiss Alazne Gni, just as she had dismissed Luna. If Alazne Gni never reached her full power, she'd never be able to kill Rikke and take her place. And almost certainly, Alazne Gni would fail today, perhaps even die. She'd become a martyr for the Sith a high example to the apprentices of loyalty and also a silent reminder that crossing Lady Frygt could result in death.

From Ezra and some old documents from the Old Order Rikke had learned something about this Hara Kiri woman. She had joined the old Order as a late teenager, she had a strong connection to the Darkside and could maintain a force rage for an unnaturally long time. Had she stayed with the Sith Order she might have been a combat expert learning from Jorshal Vuntana, Rikke's father. Despite all her strengths, Hara was an exceptionally difficult and contrary person. She'd do the opposite of what you wanted, even if it went against her own best interests. She had a tendency towards playful amusement in others and saw little outside of that goal. She also had a strong tendency towards hating her body and delighting in the pain she inflicted on it herself. So persuading her physically was unlikely to happen. But Alazne Gni's strength was mental persuasion she was capable of forcing Hara Kiri to participate in the escape.

All this assumed Alazne Gni and Razadi Syfas didn't kill each other first. Under Rikke's command, Razadi had exterminated the entirety of Alazne Gni's family and community. Alazne Gni belonged to an underground society descended from pre-purge Jedi. Somehow they had stayed hidden from Palpatine and Vader and avoided the Inquisition in modern times. Which was surprising as they were mostly children and young adults, Alazne Gni was the best of them and Rikke stole her away to further her training and then sent Razadi Syfas in to kill each child in the community. Rikke offered a bounty for each of their lightsabers that Razadi brought her and when the task seemed complete, Rikke had adorned all the walls of a small room with the children's weapons, a secret that she kept from Alazne Gni until the timing was right.

Which may be today, Alazne could probabvly weasel her way into Razadi's thick skull and learn what happened. But when it comes to a fight, Razadi is the sure winner. Let's just hope they retrieve Hara Kiri first.

Rikke then stood up, her six foot body made the cabin an oppressive space. She decided to go antagonize Ezra to take her mind off waiting for the mission on Valc VII to begin. She found her peer in the hold of the ship busying himself with more alchemical biology. As far as she could tell the monsters required for the mission were all but ready. It seemed to her that now and in the past, Ezra had the tendency to flee from reality and hide away in his work. She could feel very clearly that he was afraid of the mission and might even hate her a bit for forcing him to go on it. But always when he had these feelings he retreated, insteadof following them to their natural outcome.

Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to power. She reminded herself.

She wondered how far Ezra advanced within the old Order without learning at least some offensive capabilities. He was certainly a killer, but he depended on concealed and unseen means to murder, whereas Rikke always felt more comfortable doing it openly and with as much confrontation as possible. But as unglorious as Ezra's methods were he was effective in his own way. Which was why she still kept him on. Well, that and all the information he had about the old Order. But obtaining Hara Kiri might change that in the future, or it might not.

"I trust you're not working on anything for the mission as you told me everything was ready." She said casually, looking at the monsters.