Stider invited her to sit. She sat, but she was tense, coiled like the vornskrs she was training ready to break something if the answer wasn't to her liking. Maybe Strider saw that, maybe that's why he put a table between the two of them. He was right, she knew he was right. When a person became a mandalorian their slate was wiped clean. But what if a sith like Daxton Bane or Mikhail Shorn came looking for a clean slate? Where did you draw the line? Could you draw the line?
She was so lost in her own head she didn't even notice Strider get up to deal with another outbreak or bad behaviour. She didn't know why he bothered, most people that came to this end of the universe expected fights to break out in a Mando bar. She leant forward, elbows resting on the tabletop, and closed her eyes, her fingers gently massaging her temples. She tried to imagine what would happen if Daxton Bane showed up, and in all sincerity begged for a new life, she imagined Gilamar granting it. The thought was so vile, she wretched. No one noticed in the midst of the chaos.
She rose unsteadily to her feet, wishing she had gone straight home, that she had remained ignorant, but it was a foolish dream. Feet carried her to the bar and she slid onto a stool, still oblivious of the world around her. Someone put a drink in front of her and she stared at it, not seeing anything. Her people needed her, now more than ever. On the cusp of war, they needed everything she could give them, so she would give it to them. But the moment this war was over, she would begin what she had set out to do when she had been Mand'alor the Liberator. She would free the galaxy of the sith, one by one.