The Echo screamed as Kael reached past the crimson shell and pulled . The shard cracked fully—red sloughing away like burnt skin—until in his palm rested a raw, unpolished, clear crystal. Not blue. Not red. Pure.
Kael looked at the crimson shard. He could feel it calling—a promise to never be weak again. No more running. No more guilt turned inward. He’d burn away the past with righteous fury.
The Echo smiled with Lyra’s mouth. “Then embrace it. Take the bled crystal. Turn your pain into power. The dark side doesn’t ask for courage. Only surrender.”
The Echo dissolved, not in violence, but with Lyra’s true face—peaceful, proud—fading into mist. Star Wars Force And Destiny Knights Of Fate Pdf
Zanna stepped between them. “That’s not fate, Kael. Fate isn’t what happens to you. It’s what you choose to carry.”
Kael slid the crystal into his broken hilt. The saber ignited—white as starlight, humming with a frequency that made the ruin’s dark altars tremble.
“I see you,” murmured a voice that was not Zanna’s. The Echo stepped from the shadows—Lyra’s form, but hollow-eyed, her voice layered with cold whispers. “You could have saved me. Instead, you ran. A coward wearing a blaster.” The Echo screamed as Kael reached past the
Kael stood. His hand trembled over his own lightsaber—broken, its original blue crystal cracked inside from the day he’d tried and failed to build it.
The Outer Rim, moon of Threnos-3. A forgotten Jedi ruin half-swallowed by violet jungles.
Zanna ignited her training saber—green, flickering. “It’s not real, Kael. It’s a test. The Knights of Fate texts spoke of these chambers. They show you what you fear you are.” Not red
“What if the fear is true?” he asked.
“Don’t touch it,” Zanna whispered. “That’s not a Jedi’s crystal. It’s a bled one. A Sith remnant.”
“I’m not fighting you,” she said. “And I’m not fighting it. Look again. What do you actually see in the crystal?”