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[Luke looks up and waves his hand, opening the door casually. When he sees Adele, he stands up and adopts a worried expression]

Adele, what's wrong?

[Obi-Wan wastes little time in following her to Luke's door, looking toward her as well.]

"Is everything alright?"

I think it best we speak privately.

[She steps in and motions for Ben to follow.]

Close the door, Ben?

[Luke waves his hand instead, shutting the door]

Talk to us. Whats wrong?

[Obi-Wan follows her inside, but Luke beats him to the door, so instead he shrugs and assumes a relaxed stance near the door, looking to Adele.]

...You are both aware of the content of the visions I've been experiencing since Apep. That I've seen, felt those that I know die violently at the hands of a faceless, formless being.

[It's difficult to say what comes next. She's not entirely certain that she wants to say it at all. But it must be said.]

That. That isn't the case any more. They have a face.

Do they now? Who is it?

"Is it anybody currently within the village?"

[Because he does not really like the level of nervous tension and fear he senses in her. At all.]

...Me. It. It's me.

[Luke just blinks]

Are you sure? What's happening in these visions, Adele?

[... His immediate thought is that this must be a cruel joke by the Malnosso, but she hasn't been taken by them recently. Perhaps more of Apep's work? Regardless...

... He can comfort her later. For now, he simply listens.]

They're the same as they were when it was a faceless figure doing...

[She shakes her head, unable to be anything other than vague.]

Violence. Except it's me. I'm watching myself kill you, Luke. You, Ben, Sabriel- everyone. I'm not...wrathful, or gleeful. I appear to be entirely apathetic to what I'm doing.

[He steps closer to her, resting a hand on her shoulder.]

"Adele, this is likely nothing more than the aftereffect of Apep's assault on your mind. We will find a solution, I promise."

Yes, Ben is correct.

[Luke nods emphatically]

I can still feel some lingering Dark Side energies in the area. Nothing serious, but enough maybe to cause these troubles

It has been infuriating. These visions, when it was someone else, when I could do nothing and it's left me angry. I have attempted the meditative exercises that you've both taught me...it doesn't diminish.

[She scrubs her face with a hand and leans back against Ben's support.]

Every vision only makes it worse. The last time I've felt so furious I...You know how it ended Luke. I lashed out and killed men- [She sags, ashamed of what happened then, and what happened last week.]

and I've already done the same here. Last week when the Kin'Coran's raided the club and Archie was stabbed- I shot a girl. Killed her.

[Silently, Luke listens to Adele's story. He doesn't say a word, and barely even blinks. Its not an easy thing to take in. Sure, he's killed before, but Adele was a doctor and a gentle woman, not a warrior or a soldier. He knew some of the events that had lead up to her time here, but this...was something drastically out of character.

But to kill a Kin'Coran in cold blood? That was exactly the sort of thing he'd hoped to avoid. War and violence against the other enclosures was bad.

Luke squeezed the bridge of his nose and looked up at her]

Why did you kill her? Was it the result of these visions, or was it brought on by the actions of the Kin'Coran?

[At the moment, it had seemed the only thing to do. The girl had been reaching for Archie's pistol- men with knives were waiting in the door. Fight or die. She'd hesitated the last time she was in that situation and would die for it. Were it only her life at stake in the club, she might not have acted so quickly- but Archie was down. Bleeding. It'd looked worse than it was.

Adele hadn't taken the time to think. She'd acted. And regrets it still.]

Archie had been stabbed. He was down, trying to find his feet. The girl was reaching for his gun. I'd warned them twice before firing.

"It... was less than ideal, but I do not see how you could have spared her without putting yourself at risk."

[He meets her eyes]

"You did attempt to warn her, and you had no time for hesitation. Were you a Jedi, it would suggest that you required further training. Regardless, you did not act from malice or anger."

Right. There isn't anything for you to regret. You acted correctly for the situation.

[That, at least, means that she wasn't under the influence of the visions and thinking clearly]

Its sometimes necessary. In essence, we were being assaulted by the Kin'Corans as much as we were by the Malnosso. It couldn't be helped.

The anger made it easy to choose to pull the trigger. I don't...regret it as much as I ought to either. And I do not know what to think of it. Not any more than I am able to think of this shift in the visions.

"I suspect the visions are simply putting you on edge. You are questioning yourself where you need not, looking for anything that might indicate a shift toward this violent behavior from you."

[He pauses, as if considering.]

"If it is any comfort, I do not sense anything unusual within your psyche, save for your concern and anxiety regarding the visions themselves. Luke would likely be a more able judge than I, however."

Yes, Obi-Wan is probably right. You did what was necessary, and nothing more. The visions are clearly meant to undermine your will.

[Luke closes his eyes, stretching out with the Force]

Its faint, but there is a lingering darkness there. Fading, and suppressed. But still present.

[As usual- she feels nothing when Ben and Luke stretch out their senses. Other than how inherently disconcerting she found the visions to be, there wasn't much to connect that anxiety to her actions during the riot. To know this for certain was a weight off her mind.]

I'll have to spend more time with Saori in the mountains.

"I suspect she would know if it was necessary better than we, but I suspect it will be more important for you to cope with, or perhaps even rid yourself of, the trauma related to the visions."

Yes, I agree. It would be wise to continue to cope however you can.

[Luke's eyes lift]

How have you been sleeping?

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