Anakin and I make our way to the meeting room to learn about our trial. We cross the room, our strides matching as if we are attempting to race to find our masters. We stop abruptly at the end of the hallway. My eyes flicker up and meet Master Windu's.
"Your trial will begin now" Master Windu states, looking to Master Yoda.
"To Ahch-To, you both will venture" Master Yoda says, "To a land that is one with the living force".
"You will be tempted" Master Kenobi blurts out before Master Yoda can complete his next sentence.
Tempted? My mind wonders. How could we be tempted? Is this what Master Windu meant by saying that this was for Anakin?
It was no secret that my master resented Anakin Skywalker. He had been known to mutter indecencies of the Padawan to anyone willing to listen. 'Yoda says he is The Chosen One' Master Windu would state, 'But I sense something else within him entirely. A connection to another Jedi that no one can place. The force has told me that it will break him'. The words that were never meant to cross my ears ring in my brain.
"Emma, a word?" Master Windu asks and he takes my arm and strolls me across the room.
"I told you that this trial was for Skywalker's benefit more than yours, but you still will need to prove to me and the Jedi council that you are on your place your trust in the force." As the words expel past his lips, a dread fills me.
All this time, Master Windu has been preparing me for my trials. We have trained day in and day out for me to become a Jedi Master. But, before he had never been so worried about my connection to the force. He has always complemented me, especially with my dissociations from my personal connections to focus on my training. Why now of all times did he seem so adamant to connect me to the path of the Jedi when he should know I would never betray it? I look at my master once more and in one swift movement, I watch him gaze from Anakin to myself.
In this one glance, I connect the puzzle pieces I had been missing. My masters emotions had betrayed him. I saw my countless years of training fall behind me and stood before him as a child once more. Begging and pleading for another chance to prove myself. I was the Jedi he had spoken of for years. I was the Jedi from his nightmares. I was Jedi who he believed would break their precious chosen one. My master was smart, but he had taught me to be smarter. In one moment, I had deciphered why this trial was the most important. My cheeks turned red as I attempted to bury the resentment that boiled within me.
"I will not fail you, Master" I calmly state and now my head.
My master bows back. No words come out. He cannot give me the hope I need. This is the one time I needed his faith that I would not fail this trial and he could not provide it. A doubt settles within me. Maybe I will fail, my mind wanders, maybe you will break the chosen one and your Master would not even warn you.
I shake my head abruptly, pushing the thoughts out of my mind. Nothing will stop me. I will not fail. I will not determine Anakin's fate because I will determine my own.
I walk past Master Kenobi and Master Yoda without saying a word as Anakin stays in step behind me. We board our ship and I put in the coordinates to Ahch-To. The ship hums as we take off, headed to where my master presumes I will fail.
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Inseparable : Book One
FanficA young Jedi from Naboo must face her trials to become worthy of being named a Jedi Master. While she is determined to bring honor to her family's dark history and serve the Jedi, another Jedi stands in her way. To make or break her, she must face o...
