[His reply takes a good long while, first because he doesn't know if he wants to answer at all, then because he doesn't know what to say. It's not easy admitting to the complicated, contradicting feelings he has for his Master, least of all to someone he still thinks of as enemy. Even if he is talking to her more like to an ally now, albeit an undesirable one.]
I can't say for sure. Maybe he would further encourage me to kill you, but it is more likely he would use it to pull you onto the Dark Side.
[And that's what he wanted on Starkiller Base, sure, but not on these terms. Not if he has to witness her be dragged down as if he were fighting this war a second time. Besides, Rey defeated him. What's to say the Supreme Leader won't wish to replace him with her?]
He might have me make you Fall, as he did with me.
Maybe it wasn't his voice you heard on Starkiller. It sounds like you faced your own temptation [And then, because he can't permit himself too much pity for this enemy.] You should have listened. It would have spared you greater suffering.
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I can't say for sure. Maybe he would further encourage me to kill you, but it is more likely he would use it to pull you onto the Dark Side.
[And that's what he wanted on Starkiller Base, sure, but not on these terms. Not if he has to witness her be dragged down as if he were fighting this war a second time. Besides, Rey defeated him. What's to say the Supreme Leader won't wish to replace him with her?]
He might have me make you Fall, as he did with me.
Maybe it wasn't his voice you heard on Starkiller. It sounds like you faced your own temptation [And then, because he can't permit himself too much pity for this enemy.] You should have listened. It would have spared you greater suffering.