"What relationship?" Darth Malthael smiled faintly. "I am their mentor, friend, and leader. Nothing more."
"Nothing more?" Quinlan Vos's expression darkened. "Do you know what that means?! It means that perhaps the most gifted young apprentices in the Jedi Order have become traitors!"
"Watch your mouth, idiot! What do you mean, traitors?!" Luna Illusion pursed her lips, slammed the table, and jumped to her feet, about to explode, but Darth Malthael raised a hand to stop her.
"Have the Dream Sisters fallen to the Dark Side, or done anything harmful to the Jedi Order? Why don't you tell me?" Darth Malthael countered.
Now Quinlan Vos was rendered speechless. He glanced at the Dream Sisters. Their Force presence was stable, peaceful, and incomparably pure. No matter how he looked at them, they had nothing to do with the Dark Side. Yet they were so close to this Sith Lord of the Dark Side—close enough to frighten him!
He realized that the sisters' formidable power and Luna Illusion's violent, unruly behavior had made him overlook the fact that they had always belonged to the Light Side.
Could such a contradiction truly exist within the Force? They stood in the light, yet their actions were far from light.
Quinlan Vos's expression gradually sank. "What exactly are you plotting with the Dream Sisters?! Why did you come to Haruun Kal?!"
"You are not qualified to demand answers from me, but I do have uses for you. So I will answer you one question at a time. First, I came to Haruun Kal for Master Depa Barris," Darth Malthael said.
"Master Depa Barris has already fallen to the Dark Side! Are you trying to recruit her?! If so, I would rather kill her!" Quinlan Vos's face twisted viciously.
"Among the Jedi Order's top five swordsmen—Master