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[unrepentant]

I plan to.

What about you, find anything noteworthy?

[onlyhope]

Indeed. Someone working for the Mayor had some suspect material in a bag. I managed to take one of the samples, but it seems that there may have been another creature, or perhaps civilization, that once lived in the mines. It seems they may have gone extinct.

[unrepentant]

Wait what?

[A now extinct civilization...]

What are you thinking, war? Natural causes?
[This disease?]

[onlyhope]

Inconclusive as of yet, I'm afraid. I did not have a chance to look through the journal before we were interrupted.

But it is hard for me to believe these two events are unrelated.

[unrepentant]

Well, if the oldest deaths are in the mines, we might not know patient zero but it's narrowed down our starting point.

[onlyhope]

My thoughts exactly.

[unrepentant]

We don't have a cure.

Going to the mines to root out the cause could be suicide.

[onlyhope]

Perhaps I can round up some others who have already contracted the illness like myself, that way we wouldn't be exposing anyone still unaffected.

[unrepentant]

[Durasteel crushing in on itself the way a fist clenches.]

You won't be able to keep others from volunteering.

[onlyhope]

No, your open request on the network made it clear how invested our group appears to be, but they ought to know the risks before choosing such a thing.

[ Obi-Wan has no intention of playing leader to people that do not want to cooperate. These weren't Jedi, he had no authority over anyone. ]

[unrepentant]

I don't get it.

Why bring us all the way here for just this? The locals didn't seem to know why we were here so it's not like they hired a third party to get us here.

Why bring so many strangers here just to get us sick?

[onlyhope]

If my theory is correct, I can only assume it is some kind of challenge for us each personally.

I can't say I appreciate the pass or fail mechanics of it, however.

[unrepentant]

Every mission is pass or fail. This isn't anything new.

[onlyhope]

Yes, but I tend to prefer my lessons not to be learn or die.

[unrepentant]

We've been at war for 2 years stop making it sound like this is suddenly high stakes

[onlyhope]

Yes, but this is not our war.

We were brought here somehow, and I cannot imagine it was just to have us all catch a plague and die.

[unrepentant]

And I agree. So can you stop talking as if you're just accepting that you'll die of this stupid plague?

[onlyhope]

I am hardly about to roll over and accept it, Anakin, but I must count it as a potential possibility.

[unrepentant]

No you mustn't because how much can a potential possibility mean on a train that's already defied everything we know to be possible?

[onlyhope]

So I should dismiss all previous evidence? That would be very reckless.

[unrepentant]

[where are you obi-wan he's gonna force choke u himself]

Then maybe you shouldn't have made promises you aren't willing to keep

[onlyhope]

What on earth are you talking about?

[unrepentant]

You told me you would protect her
But you're already planning not to walk away from this!

I knew I shouldn't have listened

[onlyhope]

[ He- what? Is he talking about Padmé? In his mind it makes no sense. Obi-Wan assumes they will each be thrown back into their own timelines, the Obi-Wan he had been referencing was this other counterpart. But perhaps that isn't entirely what Anakin means at all. Obi-Wan would have to look after Padmé in his own timeline, too, and if he died here and did not make it back, that too would be breaking his promise. ]

And I meant it!

It is not as though I am planning my own death, Anakin. I am being realistic! That does not mean I do not have every intention of making it out of this alive.

[unrepentant]

[Anakin seethes, magma churning through rock and eating up every inch- forcing its way through gaps and crevices until it leaks out and begins to burn everything around him. It isn't rage, it's anger. Fear. Betrayal]

No you're just rolling over for it

If you meant it you'd fight you wouldn't just make these excuses