Maul heard the words Luke spoke. So, it had happened all according to plan. Sidious had become Emperor as he always wanted. Hearing all the rest that had happened merely depressed Maul, knowing he'd gotten exactly what he wanted. All the way up to the last point Luke made. Then Maul's head snapped up, fixing the Jedi with an unblinking gaze.
"He....is dead?" There was a long pause where a look of astonishment crossed his face. Then, rarest of all rare expressions on Maul's face, a genuine smile crossed it. Impulsively, celebrating the news, he reached over and hugged Luke, the bearer of the best news he's heard in the entire year he's been stranded here in Deerington. Don't mind him if he nearly cracked your ribs, Luke. Sometimes he doesn't know his own strength. "Good."
Then he pulled back, suddenly aware of the display of emotion he'd just undergone. "I thought nothing would ever kill the old bastard. Much as I wanted it to be me, I knew that I would never be powerful enough to defeat him."
Suddenly, it all clicked in his head. The Force visions he'd been experiencing that he'd found out when he'd been thrust into the future, how Anakin Skywalker had somehow been the key to it all, a puzzle piece Maul couldn't fit into everything else he knew about the man. How someone here had told him of how he had a third apprentice after Dooku was killed. The disturbance in the Force when he'd been kept in the Mandalorian sarcophagus, hearing his master and another man, his voice full of pain as his master committed the last step of his plan to eliminate the Jedi. It all finally made sense to Maul.
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"He....is dead?" There was a long pause where a look of astonishment crossed his face. Then, rarest of all rare expressions on Maul's face, a genuine smile crossed it. Impulsively, celebrating the news, he reached over and hugged Luke, the bearer of the best news he's heard in the entire year he's been stranded here in Deerington. Don't mind him if he nearly cracked your ribs, Luke. Sometimes he doesn't know his own strength. "Good."
Then he pulled back, suddenly aware of the display of emotion he'd just undergone. "I thought nothing would ever kill the old bastard. Much as I wanted it to be me, I knew that I would never be powerful enough to defeat him."
Suddenly, it all clicked in his head. The Force visions he'd been experiencing that he'd found out when he'd been thrust into the future, how Anakin Skywalker had somehow been the key to it all, a puzzle piece Maul couldn't fit into everything else he knew about the man. How someone here had told him of how he had a third apprentice after Dooku was killed. The disturbance in the Force when he'd been kept in the Mandalorian sarcophagus, hearing his master and another man, his voice full of pain as his master committed the last step of his plan to eliminate the Jedi. It all finally made sense to Maul.