[ he can only manage a half smile for a moment, but it eases into something more genuine as his focus comes back to the present. towards his old apprentice.
the weight of his failures, of the failures of his master, of the senate-- they're all still there in the periphery of his awareness. but here stands a jedi who has faced them all and more, and still reacts with gentleness and kindness and humour. ]
It seems that, despite me, you've become a greater Jedi than I could have imagined, Obi-Wan.
And yet my appreciation of you specifically is undiminished.
[ none of those other jedi are his former apprentice, so qui-gon is unrepentant in allowing himself to wholeheartedly embrace this bright moment in a sea of things he must put aside ]
Really? After all the difficult news you've shared with me of what's to come, do you find it hard to believe I might take some relief in knowing that at least one of the things I thought certain is in fact so?
[ dooku no longer a jedi, the senate no longer trustworthy, his own training not as sound as he had thought... ]
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Focus on the present. Isn't that what you always say? The time has passed for those questions.
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Using your old master's words against him?
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[ the cobwebs of failure will linger, but obi-wan will brush them off soon. probably. ]
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the weight of his failures, of the failures of his master, of the senate-- they're all still there in the periphery of his awareness. but here stands a jedi who has faced them all and more, and still reacts with gentleness and kindness and humour. ]
It seems that, despite me, you've become a greater Jedi than I could have imagined, Obi-Wan.
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I do as I must. As any Jedi would.
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[ none of those other jedi are his former apprentice, so qui-gon is unrepentant in allowing himself to wholeheartedly embrace this bright moment in a sea of things he must put aside ]
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[ not skeptical, just suspicious! he says this in good humour though. ]
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[ dooku no longer a jedi, the senate no longer trustworthy, his own training not as sound as he had thought... ]
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[ but obi-wan shakes his head. ]
But all that news is simply overwhelming because it's coming all at once. It will pass.