Fury and Fear
Carl Vasto stepped forward, raised his power shield, and smashed it down viciously. The shield's sharpened edge sheared the prisoner's arm clean off!
"Waaah!! Ah!! Help me... save me! Aaaah!! You're a Jedi Knight! Save me!!" the prisoner screamed.
Carl Vasto swung his shield again. With a crack, one of the prisoner's lower legs snapped off, and his screams became even more shrill. "Jedi Knight! Jedi Knight, save me! Save meeeee!!"
Depa Barris struggled intensely within herself. At last, her expression hardened, and she shouted sharply, "Enough!!"
The yellow Lightsaber flashed, and the prisoner was instantly beheaded. The headless corpse slumped down, hanging half-suspended from the barbed wire.
"Blood feud." Carl Vasto stared at Depa Barris and shook his head, clearly deeply dissatisfied that this man had died so easily.
"I'm going after the Balawai who slaughtered the village," Depa Barris said.
"Together," Carl Vasto said.
"I'm enough on my own."
"You go, don't kill. They, kill us." Carl Vasto pointed at the mangled corpse of the survivor.
"That won't happen." With that, Depa Barris rose to her full height and leaped directly five or six meters into the air. Her toes touched a branch, and she sprang onward again. After several bounds, she vanished into the jungle.
She spread out her incomparably powerful connection to the Force and followed its guidance. Then she turned her gaze in one direction. With light steps, she darted through the jungle like a great bird, moving even faster than a speeder! An ordinary person standing nearby would have seen only a fleeting shadow.
She pursued them for nearly two hours before finally spotting her target at the edge of the jungle.
It was a group of more than twenty people. They had lit a campfire and erected portable tents for