It felt like forever. To someone as young as her, it was basically a large fraction of her life. Or even an entirely new one.

"Before Malicant? For a while, it was...kind of like how it is now, except we were more welcome. The kedan were partially under someone else's control--the Emperor's, I think--and susceptible to thoughts that weren't their own. We were brought to help. So they thought of us that way because that's what they were told to think."