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[onlyhope]

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[unrepentant]

Yeah and I'm a dug.

[onlyhope]

I suppose you have a point.

[ BEGRUDGINGLY ]

I doubt they will tell me anything that would be useful outside this train car.

[unrepentant]

That's very reasonable of you Master.



But you know what Master Yoda would say.

[onlyhope]

Aware of the Living Force, you should be?

[unrepentant]

That they already told you what they were supposed to tell you.



Or something vague and frustrating like that.

[onlyhope]

I hope not. That would be vague even for Yoda.

Perhaps we'll just leave that out of the report.

[unrepentant]

You're going to report all of this?

[onlyhope]

[ This is when he realizes what he had said out of pure reflex; a honed response from years of doing missions for the Council. This is when he remembers there is no one to report to.

For a moment, it had felt so... normal. The two of them on a strange planet together, discovering. ]

No, I suppose not.

[unrepentant]

[If the reply was instinctive for Obi-Wan, then it was instinctive for Anakin too. Who hasn't yet lived through the fall of the Order and the Republic. Who isn't one of the last surviving Jedi scattered throughout the galaxy.

For the first time, he finds himself wondering how he must die. Obi-Wan has been so reluctant to speak about it- but if anyone would know, it would be him.]

I'm sorry I didn't

Think

[onlyhope]

It's alright, Anakin. I didn't either.

[ He feels foolish, and scrambles to rectify the situation with a poor attempt at levity: ]

Although this does mean you will have to do your own datareports.

[unrepentant]

You make it sound as if you won't be around.

[onlyhope]

I will.

But I imagine in the end, we will return to our respective points in the timeline.

[unrepentant]

It's possible

But I doubt it.

[onlyhope]

What makes you say that?

[unrepentant]

Well. You said to trust in the Force.


If it brought us all together like this it must have been for a reason.

[onlyhope]

Of course, but surely any mission with objectives must come to an end eventually.

[unrepentant]

But this isn't a mission.

[onlyhope]

You sound like you have a theory.

[unrepentant]

Not really.


But you're here. And Cal's here. And both of you needed refuge somewhere.
What else but the Force would be able to reach out like that?

[onlyhope]

A refuge. Interesting.

And what about you?

[unrepentant]

I wanted something too.

[onlyhope]

[ Time. What else could it be? ]

Perhaps when we reach the conductor we will have some answers.

[unrepentant]

You're betting on that too?

[onlyhope]

I am hopeful.

[unrepentant]

Come on Master, how often is it just one guy responsible?