[For the first time, Mara feels something like empathy for the creature. There was a time when she was held back as well. Thinking on it now... there was never a time when she wasn't, except in the battle she shared with Skywalker.]

[She sets the memory aside, like fine china only used for the rarest of occasions. Keelix has earned her understanding, not her love.]

If you could do anything to further your goals, programming be damned... what would you do?

[She tilts her head, curious and analytical. The Jade / Frey persona she's thrown together for Kellix is supposed to be dim, but ruthless.] I'm not held back by programming, after all.