[Obi-Wan leads, drawing them both onto fields of cool grass and a mostly cloudless night. This entire planet seems to glow, but not at all the way Corusant does. This isn't a hazy, manufactured gold on top of layers and layers of poverty and desperation- it exists even before the sun rises.
Anakin makes it only a little ways outside the threshold at first, lingering there as if he has crossed some invisible boundary. He has, he knows that now- but it wasn't really in that doorway. It was before. Before even coming here. And then he takes another step forward. Another and another until he's moving further afield, out of the nearness of their home and into the plain. Cal Kestis said that the Jedi betrayed the Republic. That there was an attempt on the Chancellor's life. And only days earlier Obi-Wan had first begun to speak of it- how possible it would be for one man to be responsible for so much.
His chest rises and falls with the rhythm of a machine, a cycle that happens outside of his control, that keeps him alive simply because that is it's only job. It makes sense, he realizes now. Its me. The evidence is there in what Obi-Wan doesn't say and in what Cal doesn't know. I'm the traitor.]
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Anakin makes it only a little ways outside the threshold at first, lingering there as if he has crossed some invisible boundary. He has, he knows that now- but it wasn't really in that doorway. It was before. Before even coming here. And then he takes another step forward. Another and another until he's moving further afield, out of the nearness of their home and into the plain. Cal Kestis said that the Jedi betrayed the Republic. That there was an attempt on the Chancellor's life. And only days earlier Obi-Wan had first begun to speak of it- how possible it would be for one man to be responsible for so much.
His chest rises and falls with the rhythm of a machine, a cycle that happens outside of his control, that keeps him alive simply because that is it's only job. It makes sense, he realizes now. Its me. The evidence is there in what Obi-Wan doesn't say and in what Cal doesn't know. I'm the traitor.]