Tenel Ka took the offered seat, once again she was amazed at how easily this could be a social call, stopping in for a drink with the partner of only other woman from her galaxy here now. But it wasn't. It would never be.
"Thats it. Jacen here has had a chance. He's found his feet in AI. He really has and I couldn't be prouder. And yet I know how you see him. I knew about GAG. I knew what I did, I...I even knew some people died. I knew Fett's daughter was one of them. It was an accident, a tragic accident, he believed she was with the not blameless Correllians. They were bringing war and pain to a galaxy that did not need more of it. I believed in him then."
She shook her head, remembering when it had all gone so wrong.
"But what he did to Mirta, that was monsterous as you say, evil. And don't think I left that war without scars. He did more to me than most, because I loved him and still turned away. Its taken us a long time to get to where we are now, for me to trust him again. But there was a point not too long ago when Alema Rar twisted my mind. If Jacen wanted all that again, wanted to be the monster. Why did he fight so hard and so long to restore my mind to me. Would he not have kept me as I was? And there are other things to, countless reasons. Most pertinant of all though, I love him. With all of my heart"
It was the truth as eloquently as she could put it. She was admitting her part in the early days of GAG standing by Jacen, defending him, and she was admitting it to a relitive stranger.