[ it's so much, the weight of it all on his shoulders at once, that for a long moment qui-gon just breathes. the force is there, he knows. and he knows that the light will prevail, though he cannot see how.

right now he just has to grieve for all the things which will no longer be.

and it's that which prompts him to ask something he hadn't planned ]

Was there ever a time, a moment, when you or Anakin felt, or perhaps heard, through the Force-- that is. After Naboo, you did not sense me again--?