Then they really should have just let him do the talking, because as ways to undercut apologies went 'it was actually the Force making you a better Jedi' was spectacularly bad.

"Maybe, but can you tell me it wasn't offered out of guilt?" Ahsoka asked, again without accusation.

"A Sith was more willing to believe in me then the Council." Ventress may only have helped because of that promise to speak on her behalf, but she had to have known that the only way Ahsoka could actually have followed through on it if she was telling the truth about being innocent. "How long do you think it would have been before knowing that left me eaten up inside the way Barriss was?"