Here is where we decide, by the setting sun and rising tide If we stay and fade or test our reach, darling won't you just come with me
[ Wait for me. Padmé repeated those words like a prayer in the hours following Obi-Wan's departure, trying to find some comfort in them while drowning in her fear. It couldn't be true. Anakin wouldn't do things like that, he was a good man who had never wanted anything more than to protect those who couldn't protect themselves. He wouldn't... not younglings...
Everything in her urged her to follow him, to take her ship and journey to that volcanic planet and try to stop whatever was happening to him. But already he might be on his way home, and if what Obi-Wan said about the Chancellor was true—
As night fell on the city planet, she packed. They couldn't stay. Whatever was happening, where before she would have stood her ground and fought, now she feared for the life of her child. Their child, who would not be raised in the shadow of the Sith. She would die before allowing such a thing to happen. ]
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Everything in her urged her to follow him, to take her ship and journey to that volcanic planet and try to stop whatever was happening to him. But already he might be on his way home, and if what Obi-Wan said about the Chancellor was true—
As night fell on the city planet, she packed. They couldn't stay. Whatever was happening, where before she would have stood her ground and fought, now she feared for the life of her child. Their child, who would not be raised in the shadow of the Sith. She would die before allowing such a thing to happen. ]