Yerbol shouted back his agreement. He didn't sound panicked either, so everything muse be okay...at least for now. Aria trudged onwards, hands outstretched in front of her to keep her bearings. It was so dark she could scarcely see in front of her nose so she had to rely on her other senses to find her way and make sure she didn't trip on any cracks or breaks in the ground. 

The further onwards she moved, the colder the air got. For a moment Aria nearly panicked. Had those beasts come back and followed her down the passageway? Had they gotten Yerbol, too? When she began to hear movements close beside her, the Sith acolyte almost jumped out of her skin. Her hands flew to her lightsabers instinctively, keeping them steady in front of her as she waited for the next sounds. The red light emitted by her weapons wasn't much, but it was enough to give her scope of her surroundings. Perhaps she should have used them sooner and whatever this was wouldn't have managed to creep up on her unawares. 

Swinging to face the direction of the footsteps, she was met with a familiar and all to disconcerting face smiling coolly back at her. 
"You've done very well, Ari." He praised, stepping towards her. "I knew you would convince them to trust you." 
Warily, Aria took a few steps backwards as her father began to move towards her.
"Wh-what are you doing here?" Her voice shook unsteadily, ordinarily she would have been offended that he felt the need to check up on her but this time was different. Did he know she had been considering the Jedi's offer of escape? 

The Sith lord's saber hummed to life and he kept moving towards her. "Just a reminder for you, kid." Was he here to kill her? Aria planted her feet and raised her blades as her father lunged for her. They exchanged blows while he forced her to move further into the passageway. Panicked, the acolyte realised she could not longer sense Yerbol. She was on her own now. 

"You can do better than that! I taught you to kill, now use it! There is a time where the apprentice must take the Master's place, by force if necessary!" He taunted her, lunging again. Snarling, Aria darted sideways to avoid the blow and pushed the Sith lord back into the passage wall with the Force. Panting for breath, she swallowed and faced her father again. 

That's when it hit her, something wasn't right here...she studied him more closely. Her father never went anywhere without the pair of Tuk'ata he had tamed, they padded ever faithfully at his heels like pet dogs. 

They weren't here. At all. Even if they had been concealed by Force techniques she would have been able to smell their breath from miles off. Slowly, Aria began to realise why. This was an illusion. This was the test, she was supposed to kill him, too. Sacking in a sharp breath, the acolyte struck back again, this time delivering a killing blow. The dying gasp emitted by the apparition was startlingly lifelike, but any illusion of reality was gone as it dissipated. 

Silence. Aria swallowed and turned around in a slow circle. Was there something else she had to do? A grinding sound echoed through the chamber, and part of the rock face receded into a smaller hallway. Torches roared to life along the walls, illuminating the path she was to take next.

Aria stowed her weapons back at their place on her belt and followed the trail of flickering lights to find herself back at the original chamber where she and Yerbol had first parted ways again. The middle hallway yawned ominous and dark before her. Peering down the one marked for 'Vengeance ', Aria thought she could faintly see a blue light of some kind but no immediate sign of Yerbol. Was that light coming from his saber?