Aria chuckled, forming an image of Yerbol decked out in full special agent gear, patrolling the streets of the known dodgy spaceports like Nar Shaddaa and Taris,  busting criminals left right and center. Yeah, that was entirely believable. 
"Could see you doing that." She smirked, shrugging. 

Sometimes she wondered if it was lucky she had known her mother. Maybe it would have been better if she hadn't. She would never know. The acolyte sprang back to her feet, shifting restlessly. It didn't take long for the conversation to start feeling awkward again. 
"Guess I was lucky." She nodded a little. "Didn't make it any easier to lose her though." Aria left out the part about how her father had sent her to kill her mother, not entirely sure how she would explain that to him. Maybe he would understand but now wasn't the time for it. "Maybe later I'll...explain, it's uh, it's complicated. For now we should get going." She cleared her throat again, managing to smile. "For what it's worth, I'm...sorry about Lysa too." She added, for once soundoing like she meant it.

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She was glad he suggested moving on, it still felt strange for her to hear him talk about Lysa the way he did. She'd have to get used to it eventually. 
Stopping beside him, Aria craned her head up to try and peer towards the top of the rocky cliffside, but it disappeared into the sky before it showed any signs of flattening out. 

Another heavy breath out. "Well...I guess they want us to climb it huh?" Aria muttered, drawing both sabers. She hesitated for a moment, eyeing the dark opening warily as the chill crept back into the air. More ice beasts, hooray. 
But it was so damn hot out here that she was actually willing to charge headfirst in there if it meant the air cooling down for a while. 

Aria nodded in Yerbol's direction, straightening her posture and walking through the portal'a archway. It didn't take long for the last bit of natural light to vanish again. Spitting anot angry curse under her breath, the Sith acolyte activated her sabers and held them out at arm's length to illuminate the ground before them. 
"Don't these people know what torches are?" She griped, snorting with laughter nonetheless. Trying to include some humor might at least keep them sane through this. 

Her heart was hammering against her ribcage and Aria found herself subconsciously inching closer to Yerbol as they progressed. Getting separated in here would be bad. Very bad. 
"You see anything yet?" She asked the young Knight, her own senses on high alert for company. 

A howl sounded again, but it seemed further off, like the creatures were hanging back and waiting for something. 
"Those ice demon things must be guardians left here by the True Sith." Aria muttered, her breath starting to mist as the air got thinner and colder again.  She remembered Yerbol thinking something similar when they'd come upon the temple earlier on. "It's like they're waiting for us to get further up, or something..."
She wished they would just attack them again and get it over with. She hated these watch and wait games.