The Empire's Fall (Pt.2)

Chapter Nine: Skywalker Twins Return

(Yoda's POV)

The Skywalker twins approaching I sense, hard not to it is, like suns when they're apart both of them shine, together, so brightly they shine, to ignore impossible it is. Hmm. Worried for my padawan I am, become quite attached to the girl it seems as though he has, what ultimately led to the destruction of the republic, attachment is. Hmm.

Beside my former padawan I stand, waiting for the Skywalkers to land we are. Their ships as they land, I see. When close to us they get, see the scar on Leeda's, eye I can. Tense, my padawan does, when he sees the scar. Worried, I know he is.

After dinner set up their camp once more, the Skywalkers do. Fall quickly asleep, Luke does. Walk to a tree instead, Leeda does. Climbs it, and sits, silently. Walk over I do, watch her I must. Keeping her and her brother safe, my duty it is, just as it is to teach them.

See Callum walk over, I do. Ask he does, to go up the tree. Let him, Leeda does. Go closer I must, listen and watch, I will.

Come from behind me, a laugh does.

"Why, Master, I never thought you would be the person to spy."

"Neither did I."

Sigh, I do, "You both, watching me were you? Keep them safe, my duty it now is."

"Yes, I will agree with that, Master. But perhaps, in this new time, with the Jedi of this generation, attachment will be taught with care. Sometimes, I think, that had we taught Anakin about keeping his attachments healthy, maybe we would be living in a better world. And Obi-Wan and I would actually be living."

Roll his eyes, Master Obi-Wan then does. Smile, Ileema has always made me. Sigh again, I do. Much to think about, there is. Hear part of the Skywalkers story, then I do. Louder, she has gotten, with this part.

"It was a man, clearly burned, but his eyes... I knew his eyes. I knew them because it's the one clear feature that Aunt Beru told me I share with both Luke and our father. In my dream they outfitted him with a black suit, and after they did something, all I know is that it must have been painful because he was screaming, an old man in a cloak approached him. Vader... he asked about P... our mother. The old man said he killed her, that's when I knew. I could tell from the way mother embraced him on the fiery planet, to the way he asked about her from the suit, that they loved each other. My father, Anakin Skywalker, had become Darth Vader."

"Hmm, it seems that Leeda has inherited her father's dreaming. Though, if hers is simply about the past, then it isn't the same as Anakin's, his were only ever about the future," Obi-Wan says.

"Know about this, I did not. Hidden from me, she has kept this."

About this, talk to her I must. Suffer alone, good for her, it is not. Callum, be there he must. Trust him she does. But be there, Luke must not. Tell him about her dream, I do not think she did.

"Master? Are you all right?"

"All right, I am. Ask, why do you?"

"I just said, 'Well, she really didn't have a reason to tell you. The only person I think she ever told, was Luke. Which makes sense, since he is her brother and all'."

"Hmm. Talk to her, I will. Have Callum there, as well. Trust him she does-"

"Well, I'd certainly say so," interrupts Obi-Wan, "considering it looks like she just fell asleep on his shoulder."

"Smile, why are you, Ileema?"

"Because I think it's quite sweet, Master."

"Why," ask Obi-Wan.