"I don't know how much you know about my home world. I know there are movies but I don't know anything more than that." Mara had heard it mentioned and while she was curious to know more, it was probably for the best that she didn't. "Luke is a hero where I come from. A really big one. He blew up a space station, it was called the Death Star even though that wasn't its real name." She looked down at her hands and took a deep breath. "The problem is that I am on the other side of this whole thing." Mara looked up at him, hoping that she would't see disappointment in his eyes.
"I don't remember my family. I was taken when I was very young and raised in the Imperial Palace to work for the Emperor. That's all I've ever known. When the Rebellion started, I was a kid but I had this strange connection with the Emperor. I could sense him wherever he was, I could communicate with him over long distances." She closed her eyes for a moment then looked up again. "I became know as the 'Emperor's Hand.' I went places, did things for him, undercover missions. I was an assassin, a spy, I pretended to be a lot of things. My main cover was as a dancer in the Imperial court but all the other dancers thought that I was sleeping with the Emperor." She snorted. "That is so not true. He's a million years old and I don't even know what he looks like. He always wears this hood and I can feel.....well I can sense that he's not what he seems. He probably knows that but we haven't talked about it."
Mara looked out over the ocean. She wasn't sure how to describe what she felt or what it meant. "I don't know why I can sense him, he never explained that to me. He said it didn't matter. When Arva came to me, I thought she was working with the Emperor and that was why she brought me here but I can't feel him, not at all, and that's never happened before. I could feel Luke. I knew where he was, I could sense when he was close, I could almost read his mind but I never tried. I was afraid." Mara sighed and reached for a strand of hair and started to play with it. "When I found out who Luke was, I didn't know what to do. If he knew who I was, if he knew what I had done.....he'd hate me. I stand for everything he and Wedge and all the others fought against and died for. But I don't know any other life, life with the Emperor is all I've ever known. I just....I don't want you to hate me either."