<strong>Alest</strong><br/><br/>"Well enough, thank you," the master replied, noting the sudden tension, "Just wondering how long you've been standing there."  Alest gave the servant his most winning smile.  He had ways, quiet, subtle, ways of dealing with potential problems like this.  Of course, they could be gotten around, but he generally found that by then it was too late.  Subtlty was something that previous dark Jedi, and the so-called Sith lords, had forgotten in their lust for power.  They'd come to the stage far too early, long before they were truly ready.  He wasn't about to make the same mistake.  And his eventual goals were much smaller.  He didn't want an empire, like that idiot Palpatine.