Echos Within|| Anakin Skywalker

A Star Wars AU (Anakin Skywalker x Original Character)
⤷ Book One: Following the events of Episode II

She was meant to be protected.
A royal refugee exiled from her war-torn world,
Princess Kaelene of Virellia is placed in the care of the Jedi for her safety-but safety was never what the Force intended.

Within the cold halls of the Jedi Temple, Kaelene meets Anakin Skywalker-a brash young Padawan tasked with guarding Senator Padmé Amidala.
He is everything she is not: bold, reckless, burning with ambition.
She is soft-spoken, uncertain, hiding secrets even she doesn't understand.

But when Kaelene begins having visions-not of her future, but his-a bond is formed.
Unseen. Unforgivable. Unbreakable.

What begins as flickering affection soon ignites into a dangerous, forbidden connection.
Anakin is torn between his duties to the Jedi and the woman who understands him in ways no one else ever has.
Kaelene is drawn into a fate she never chose, one that links her to the galaxy's most dangerous prophecy.

As war spreads, and the Jedi grow suspicious, Anakin is reassigned to protect Padmé.
But even from across the stars, he reaches for Kaelene-through dreams, through fire, through the Force.

Until the bond turns from comfort... to obsession.
And love becomes the first step toward a fall.