[It's difficult not to be soothed by it- even if it's only along his edges. Every time he's had one of these visions before, they've lingered with him long after waking not simply for the sights and sounds, or even the sense that he's living it. But he also knows, a part of him has always known, that it's because the danger is true. That it's a warning.
The fear and worry will live in him, but Anakin will have to quiet them in his duty as a Jedi. He knows the pattern for this too.
He becomes aware of his limbs slowly, as if meeting them for the first time; sinks into the present. Anakin knows what to do when he wakes from a nightmare and has to pretend that isn't so. ...But Obi-Wan has seen him in these fits before- and he knows what visions are clinging to him. He's laying the same way he'd been found, stretched on his back- but as the moment stretches Anakin looks away. He sinks back onto the pillow and turns his red-rimmed gaze back to the ceiling. Shuts his eyes.
Later maybe, he'll feel shame or embarrassment. But the dream's fear and pain and desperation have hollowed him out. Only a dull horror remains.]
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The fear and worry will live in him, but Anakin will have to quiet them in his duty as a Jedi. He knows the pattern for this too.
He becomes aware of his limbs slowly, as if meeting them for the first time; sinks into the present. Anakin knows what to do when he wakes from a nightmare and has to pretend that isn't so. ...But Obi-Wan has seen him in these fits before- and he knows what visions are clinging to him. He's laying the same way he'd been found, stretched on his back- but as the moment stretches Anakin looks away. He sinks back onto the pillow and turns his red-rimmed gaze back to the ceiling. Shuts his eyes.
Later maybe, he'll feel shame or embarrassment. But the dream's fear and pain and desperation have hollowed him out. Only a dull horror remains.]
Yes.
Usually I don't shout.