“Oh no. Not another of the little beasts,” Maul groaned upon seeing Sunshine. That was all Trench needed, yet another fat little porg wandering around to join the rest of the flock that had been left here by the previous Rey. “Kylo has been watching over a group of them. I asked him if I could eat any of them but he refused.” Maul sounded surly about that fact. What was the harm in eating the fattest of the bunch???

“Alas, there is not. We are in a completely different universe, not merely on a different planet. But things will not continue on without you back in our galaxy. Time simply stands still until you return there,” Maul explained. That soothed the worries of some people but for others it alarmed them.

Maul closed his eyes as he thought of his home planet and all the years he’d spent away from it. “It is possible those around you simply didn’t know. Or chose not to know. Ignorance is a powerful and dangerous weapon. Many have always been prejudicial to the Dark Side simply because they see it as a bad path to go along. But on Dathomir it is not an evil entity. It is simply there in the animals, the plants, and the people the way the Light Side runs through everything on many other planets. One has to choose to do bad things the same way they choose good. It is a conscious choice. You can do good with the Dark just as you can do evil with the Light.”