"I can imagine..."

Chiss society was so strange to him. It was another part where he really just wouldn't fit in. He was used to playing someone else's game for his own benefit, or having someone play his. That was just the sort of games one had to play, being Sith. Especially a Sith who had been in his position. And now that he was used to it, could he ever go back to being anything else? He wasn't sure.

Would he fit in, would he even have a place, when he followed Thrawn back to the Ascendancy in the future?

Well, all he really needed was Thrawn, he supposed. So long as he was at Thrawn's side, he thought everything would be just fine.

"Can you tell me more about the Ascendancy? I'd ask Thrawn- I mean, he has taught me a lot, including being patient with me as I learn Cheuhn and probably butcher every single word I say- but... It's honestly sort of humiliating, being Chiss, and having the only thing I know by heart be unspeakable curse words..."

He felt ignorant. Completely, utterly. Not a feeling he liked.

He was no stranger to feeling like an outsider, but that didn't mean he liked the idea of getting completely used to that.