Losing something she loved had ripped her open in a way she had not expected. The pain hurt, but the pain was right. The Order had wrought a galaxy in which good capitulated to evil, where human feelings—Aryn’s feelings—were crushed under the weight of Jedi nonattachment.

The past is a ghost that haunts us. Ghosts must banished. Lingering on the past is weakness, Lord Vader.

An apprentice was unquestioningly loyal until the moment he wasn't. Both Master and apprentice knew this.