He was the best I knew. I never worried when I flew with him because I knew we'd get there safely. [She shrugs a bit.] The ship might not have been whole when we landed, but I was never harmed.
[Her humor dies as she thinks back to the conversation she had with Anakin in the Lars home.]
He wouldn't. He'd had nightmares for weeks, premonitions, about his mother in trouble and in pain. When we got to Tatooine, we'd learned that she'd been taken by Tuskens and that the search party that went out to find her had come back decimated. The next day, he left with with your uncle Owen and returned hours later with his mother's body.
After burying her, he hid in the repair room. When I found him, he told me that he'd found her but she was dying. And he'd...slaughtered the entire encampment—every man, woman and child.
[She takes a shuddery breath and sinks into a chair.]
The scary part is that that news didn't scare me. He was supposed to be a Jedi, compassionate and above it all. But Anakin has always been more human than the Council liked.
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[Her humor dies as she thinks back to the conversation she had with Anakin in the Lars home.]
He wouldn't. He'd had nightmares for weeks, premonitions, about his mother in trouble and in pain. When we got to Tatooine, we'd learned that she'd been taken by Tuskens and that the search party that went out to find her had come back decimated. The next day, he left with with your uncle Owen and returned hours later with his mother's body.
After burying her, he hid in the repair room. When I found him, he told me that he'd found her but she was dying. And he'd...slaughtered the entire encampment—every man, woman and child.
[She takes a shuddery breath and sinks into a chair.]
The scary part is that that news didn't scare me. He was supposed to be a Jedi, compassionate and above it all. But Anakin has always been more human than the Council liked.