Old Ben ought to know by now - Jedi that he was, mad hermit that he is - that attachment is dangerous, and to make a home in the desert is to learn to let all things go. He has discarded names, before he came to live here, and places, old friends and lovers and so many memories - but there is a box in his hut, hidden, holding a knight's weapon, and he could never bring himself to leave it behind.
For the boy's sake, he tells himself, when the boy is of age, but it is not young Luke he thinks of most; his apprentice's name is sand on the wind, memory whittled down to bone, but he cannot forget that Vader too once watched these suns rise, and learned the desert's lessons about what to keep and what to throw away.
Oh my gosh, this is so beautifully written and hurts in all the right places. Especially that last part: his apprentice's name is sand on the wind, memory whittled down to bone, but he cannot forget that Vader too once watched these suns rise, and learned the desert's lessons about what to keep and what to throw away. Just wow. Thanks so much for this fill!
Thank you so much! Star Wars - and Anakin and Obi Wan's past - is one of those things that always hits me right in the emotions, but I wasn't sure if this would be what you were looking for, so I'm really glad you liked it.
Obi Wan book anything that meant home from Ani. Yoda was right in that he was too old and he knew too much. The way he clings to his master is not normal and beyond that it is dangerous.
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For the boy's sake, he tells himself, when the boy is of age, but it is not young Luke he thinks of most; his apprentice's name is sand on the wind, memory whittled down to bone, but he cannot forget that Vader too once watched these suns rise, and learned the desert's lessons about what to keep and what to throw away.
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his apprentice's name is sand on the wind, memory whittled down to bone, but he cannot forget that Vader too once watched these suns rise, and learned the desert's lessons about what to keep and what to throw away.
Just wow. Thanks so much for this fill!
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