【自译】星战小说《达斯·普雷格斯》 序(7)

他的目光搜寻并寻得了一个正冉冉升起的星群，它的力量与可能造成的结果对天空而言是陌生的，尽管它很快便为黎明初辉所淹没。长空之下，平原之上，唯有知其处、晓其道之人方可视其身，领略其所开创之大胆之将来。于某系人而视，恒星和行星似乎仍以其火般降世前就精心设定的规则运动。但事实上，天空已被扰乱，被暗物质拉扯成新的排序。在嘴中，西迪厄斯尝到了浓烈的血腥味；在胸膛，他感到那怪物愈加强大，从阴暗的深处现身并将他的外表扭曲成某种可怕的事物——只是尚未向外界展露真身。
The dark side had made him its property, and now he made the dark side his.
其其黑暗者，昔主今仆兮。
Breathless, not from exertion but from the sudden inspiration of power, he let go of the sill and allowed the monster to writhe through his body like an unbroken beast of range or prairie.
难以呼吸，并非力量的运用而是因为力量的爆发，他接触制约，让那怪物在他体内如同一头势不可挡的野兽在山脉或草原上奔腾。
Had the Force ever been so strong in anyone?
原力曾在其他人身上表现得如此强大吗？
Sidious had never learned how Plagueis's own Master had met his end. Had he died at Plagueis's hand? Had Plagueis, too, experienced a similar exultation on becoming a sole Sith Lord? Had the beast of the end time risen then to peek at the world it was to inhabit, knowing its release was imminent?
西迪厄斯从没听说过普雷格斯的师父是怎样死的。他是死在普雷格斯手上的吗？普雷格斯是不是也曾因为成为了唯一的西斯尊主而感到相似的欢愉？当这只末世的野兽意识到自己将要被释放的时候，它是否已经起身，开始窥探自己将要居住的世界？
He raised his gaze to the ecliptic. The answers were out there, coded in light, speeding through space and time. Liquid fire coursing through him, visions of past and future riffling through his mind, he opened himself to the reconfigured galaxy, as if in an effort to peel away the decades...