"I'm glad he stays with you kids. It helps him to have a focus on someone to protect and care about. He wasn't always like that, you know. He was much more of a lone wolf when I first met him in Deerington." It had been interesting to see the transformation that had come over Reaper once he had a passel of kids to watch out and care for.

"I do believe it does. Some have written me off entirely but more is their loss. They can sit there and stew when I prove them all wrong." When someone said Maul couldn't do something, it kicked his natural-born stubbornness to show that he could into overdrive.

Maul's mouth hardened into a line for a moment. "Not the way some of these people talk. Some think good intentions and actually doing good are the same thing. That is not correct. I have known a great number of people who claimed to do good but their actions spoke far too the contrary." He thought of the Jedi of his time, how may of them were just as corrupt and arrogant as the Sith. So many were hypocrites, that was why the rare one that didn't stood out from the crowd for him.