Matt Hona sighed to himself as he looked at the timid Sefrans Tann.
She had not been like this before. She had once been so high-spirited, so arrogant and overbearing—and she truly had been unstoppable, invincible beneath the heavens. Every enemy who dared question her had been trampled beneath her feet.
Could a single defeat really reduce her to this?
Qi Jian patted Matt Hona on the shoulder, and the two walked out of the cell. Only after the heavy iron door shut behind them, locking Sefrans Tann in darkness, did Qi Jian sigh and say, "I hope the report you asked her to write will help her pull herself together, at least somewhat."
"Or it might drag her into even deeper darkness." Matt Hona fell silent for a long while before asking, "What exactly had Tang Xiao been planning back then? I can feel that Sefrans Tann becoming like this is directly connected to him."
Qi Jian shook his head. "His Majesty had foreseen long ago that an Imperial general named Thrawn would be extremely formidable. He had once wanted Cun Te to bring him over. But Cun Te failed to do so, because Thrawn initially held a fairly high position in Chiss territory, leaving little opportunity. Later, when he was exiled, Cun Te was no longer in the Unknown Regions. And Thrawn had gone to Coruscant with a clear purpose—to become part of the Galactic Empire."
As they walked, he looked out the window and recalled the past. "His Majesty did tell us that Thrawn was formidable, perhaps the greatest military commander he had ever seen. But why he was formidable, and in what way, His Majesty could not explain clearly. He only said that Thrawn's existence was a future he had seen through the Force... But the