<strong>Torven</strong><br/><br/>He shook his head.  "Last I heard, 'was' would be the proper word," Torven replied, "Though the source wasn't exactly reliable.  Still, he was a man with more mouths to feed than he could afford.  Hatred had nothing to do with it.  Survival did."<br/><br/>At least that was one lesson he'd learned quite well.  Surviving the arenas had taken a mix of drive, skill, luck, and, as he' dlearned later, latent Force sensitivity.  Many of the first real powers he'd developed were things he'd been doing unconsciously for years back then.