He stopped for a moment at the top of the dune, before beginning the descent toward his house. He thought more about what Malgus had said. He nearly ignored the remark about Coruscant burning, simply because -

Well, at some point he had become inured to such references, and it wasn't as though he hadn't lived very much that.

"I've often wondered about the seemingly endless desire to force submission - and why I think I have viewed nearly all of them as mad. It's that they stop at a desire to dominate. There is nothing else. The domination is the victory and the allusion of power, but it certainly isn't freedom. It's just ...being enslaved in another way."

He stops a split second and realizes: "It's almost a pity you didn't wake up several years earlier. I can think of precisely one Sith you would have liked."