Star Wars Episode VII
The Shadow Revealed
by: Rob Hare
Disclaimer. I do not own anything from Star Wars or any related propaganda, and am not seeking money in this Fan-Fiction.
Star Wars Episode VII
The Shadow Revealed
The
New Republic has been successful in restoring peace to the galaxy. Luke
Skywalker has set up a new Jedi training program on Coruscant and has rebuilt
the Jedi Temple. Han and Leia Solo’s son, Anakin, is going through this
training program, under the careful watch of Luke, Master Yoda, and Anakin
Skywalker.
Secretly,
on Iridionia, a planet far away from Coruscant, a new settlement has been
founded. A new ‘Shadow’ Temple has been built there.
Sensing
the Dark Side of the Force in the Temple, Luke has sent out two Jedi in search
of answers; Anakin, a Padawan learner, and his master Guit …
Chapter One
A
small transport ship lurched sluggishly across space, heading towards the small,
red and black planet of Iridionia. The red paint on the cruiser’s hull
signified diplomatic status from Coruscant.
Inside,
Anakin Solo and Guit Krohn sat, waiting.
Anakin’s
black travel cloak hid his brown and black Jedi tunic and lightsabre.
He shifted nervously.
“I
sense much unease in you, Anakin,” said Guit. He was a saurian, from a distant
planet. His blue face was long, and his jaw full of pointed teeth. He was
wearing the same kind of cloak as Anakin, and was a Jedi Master.
“Yes,
Master,” confessed Anakin; “I sense much trouble ahead, something I have
never felt before … a kind of ominous space”
Guit
smiled his reptilian smile. “Very good, Anakin. I sense it also. But don’t
centre on your anxiety, and do not fear the future. Your mind belongs here and
now in the present”
Anakin
nodded. The intercom on Guit’s belt beeped. He grabbed it.
“Yes?”
“This
is Captain Noom. We’re approaching the planet. Where do you wish to land?”
came the captain of the vessel’s voice.
“Near
the outskirts of the settlement, we had better not attract attention”
“Yes
sir”
---
A
dark hooded creature was pacing back and forth. He was walking in front of a
window overlooking a desolate waste of black rock, with twisting, snake-like
rivers of lava running in and out of high, spiked ridges.
Iridonia.
The
hooded figure stopped. Outlined against the dark red sun, it looked like an evil
monster. A dark, ominous something emanated from the figure. The door
some metres behind the figure slid open silently.
A
droid of some kind came in. It was a protocol droid, except painted black with
red eyes. The hooded figure turned.
It
was wearing a white mask, shaped like the shape of a human skull, only without
the lower jaw, and the teeth were long and sharp.
A
cold voice came out of the hood.
“What
is it, DG-42?”
The
droid stopped. “A republic cruiser is coming down to land on the planet,
sir”
The
hooded figure stood irresolute for a moment. Then;
“Send
out the droids,” and it stalked out of the room.
---
The
pilot of the Corellian cruiser, named The Dontoon landed silently next to
one of the rivers of lava. Immediately, the two Jedi felt a surge in the Force.
Something
evil was here.
Anakin
stepped out onto Iridonia for the first time. He breathed.
A
simple mix, he thought, of medichlorafutic oxygen and silicon dioxide. It was
breathable, as the tests had shown.
Not
only did he sense the evil on this planet, he sensed a sudden flow of relief
from something just over the ridge beyond where Anakin was standing …
“Master
… I have a bad feeling about this,” announced Anakin as Guit emerged too.
“Very
good, again, my young Padawan. I think it would be best if we are on our
toes,” rasped Guit, “so have your lightsabre ready”
They
set off. The Dontoon lifted off, and blasted into the sky, disappearing
in moments.
“Come,
Annie,” prompted Guit.
---
Jedi
Master Luke, the founder of the new Jedi Order, had trained Anakin’s master.
Guit was exceptionally good on theory subjects; this was a mission, so Guit felt
a bit out of place. His lightsabre hung loosely by his belt: it was fairly plain
save for the red and black buttons. At the projection plate, the handle widened,
as a protection, and one side rose further up than the other, for pleasure.
Anakin
himself was only young, at sixteen, though already his skills were showing as a
Jedi. His boyish features were now centred on something. He reached towards his
lightsabre, which resembled Guit’s in some ways. It was fairly plain; but at
the projection end, four wings curved out and up and then steeply down to meet
the plate, giving it the appearance of four claws holding the blade.
Soon
they were standing on the ridge Anakin was looking at before. The sun had almost
set. Suddenly, from behind a rock two metres to Anakin’s left, he felt the
presence of a droid. He turned. The rock exploded in front of him, blasting him
back a metre. But as he hit the ground, Anakin flew back up, and as he landed in
battle stance on his feet, he ignited his lightsabre.
A
blue bar of light and energy came from the simple handle, and deflected a laser
bolt. Guit’s lightsabre was flashing also, deflecting hits from another
source, the green beam zigging and zagging everywhere. Quickly Guit disposed of
his gun turret, and Anakin did the same by deflecting the bolts back at his
turret.
They
stopped, the guns just smoldering ruins. It was quiet except for the hum of the
lightsabres.
Then,
a rumbling started.
“I
have a very bad feeling about this,” said Anakin again.
“As
do I,” said Guit as he turned and ran the other way. Anakin stayed close
behind.
As
they sprinted over the ridge, however, three massive, eight-foot-tall droids
stood before them.
Each
one had four arms, each equipped with a twin-barrelled, powerful-looking weapon.
They were bow-legged, and their heads were relatively small, in the shapes of
skulls.
The
twelve arms started blasting immediately.
The
Jedi stood their ground, spinning and slashing with their sabres, deflecting and
slicing, but after a minute, only one was turned to scrap. The remaining two was
occupying one Jedi each. One drove Anakin back until they reached a wall. Anakin
flipped over the droid and slashed in mid-air at the vulnerable back of the
droid.
The
robot crashed and exploded, hot sparks flying. Anakin turned and ran, jumped,
landed and plunged his lightsabre into the back of the remaining droid that was
cornering Guit.
“Thankyou,
Anakin,” said Guit, “I feel a disturbance in the Force”
“I
feel it also, Master”
Suddenly,
Guit pushed Anakin back, yelling, “Look out!” and raised his lightsabre as a
dark-cloaked figure landed on him, a red beam of light wheeling and spinning in
its hands.
“Run
Anakin!” yelled Guit, “contact the ship! Get to the Temple, and inform them
that the Si –“ but he was cut off as he groaned and was Force-hurled against
a rock.
Anakin
turned and ran, his world spinning and reeling. He felt the hatred concentrated
extremely densely in the dark-cloaked thing. He turned and saw the figure raise
his sabre to block Guit’s attack.
It
counter-struck, spun, and plunged its sabre into Guit’s chest. Guit roared in
pain and then fell to the ground.
“No!”
cried Anakin as he felt a massive surge in the Force as his master fell. Guit
simply fell, and then disappeared. He was now one with the Force.
Anakin
channelled his anger out of his body, and pulled out his lightsabre.
He
ignited it, the blue blade illuminating the surrounding terrain. The cloaked
figure put away its lightsabre, and as Anakin came wheeling in, it held out its
hand, and tensed for a second. Anakin was blasted back, and with the swish of
its cloak—the hooded figure was gone.
Anakin
rushed to his master’s crumpled robes. He picked up Guit’s lightsabre, and
clipped it to his belt in a sign of honour. He decided never to use it, though,
just in case it was damaged, but just keep it with him as a reminder of his
Master, and friend.
He
turned and saw a huge temple in the distance. There was a large disturbance in
the Force coming from it; Anakin could feel the anger and hate coming from it in
waves. As Anakin watched, he vowed to avenge Guit’s death.
---
Anakin
was standing in the Jedi Temple, Coruscant. He was facing Luke Skywalker, a Jedi
Master, and the spirits of Yoda, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Yoda
sighed. “Unclear, this situation is. Assign to you, another Jedi Master we
will. Go to Iridonia, you must”
Anakin
bowed. “Yes, Master Yoda”. He turned to leave.
“Wait,
Anakin,” called Luke. Anakin turned again, back to Luke.
“Anakin,”
Luke said, “we are hearing rumours of a new evil in the galaxy. A Second
Imperium is being formed. They are using the Temple on Iridionia as a training
camp to train the new foot soldiers in the ways of the Force. This is all we
know, and you mustn’t tell anyone outside of this Temple
“May
the Force be with you”
“Master
Luke,” asked Anakin, “do you know who will be training me now?”
“Actually,”
replied Luke, “I believe you are ready for the trials,” said Luke, raising
his voice slightly over the murmurs of the other three members of the Council,
“and you will be accompanying young Nade Sinh, another Jedi Knight”
Anakin,
shocked, bowed and left the room.
---
Anakin
Solo stood blindfolded. The room around him was full of obstacles. It was also
dark.
He
drew his lightsabre. He ignited it. He had sensed the presence of a droid. He
turned and raised his sabre, deflecting the first shot of the droid. It emerged,
merely a service droid, a cheap one at that, but given special training in
combat. It fired again; Anakin blocked the hit, sending it into a nearby
obstacle, showering him in sparks as he thrust his sabre into the droid’s arm.
Another shot fired from his left. Another fired from behind him.
Soon,
though he sensed four droids, there was heat and sparks all around him. He
Force-pushed one droid, the gun flying out of its hand, and kicked another’s
gun.
The
last two he had no trouble with; he cut the gun in half of one, and then
deflected one laser bolt at the other’s gun.
His
objective at this stage was to disable the droids. Now that that was over, he
had to race to the other end of the room. In his way were innumerable obstacles
in many shapes and sizes, and large gaps, with floating stepping-stones, some
with obstacles.
He
sprinted the first leg, around a spindly chair, under a tree-like obstacle,
around a block, and so on until he reached the first gap in the floor.
He
leapt lightly to one stepping-stone. It swayed gently with the impact. Anakin
sensed the next stone had an obstacle on it. He leapt, slashed with his sabre,
and landed on the now clear stone.
He
ran some more, around more obstacles, and over more stepping-stones, until he
sensed the end. As he reached the last obstacle, he ignited his sabre again. A
droid leapt out. He deflected the shots—but this droid had a rapid light repulsor,
firing about thirty shots a nanoclic. He blocked these, his supernatural
reflexes doing their thing, until another droid with the same kind of weapon
also came out. He blocked even faster, and then Force-pushed one of the gap in
the floor just in front of them, and the other he neatly sliced in half, for at
this stage the rules must have changed.
Anakin
leapt over the last gap, landing neatly, and ran through the closing blast
doors.
---
“Passed
barely, you have,” said Yoda’s spirit later that day. “Destroyed two
droids, you did. Others did not. They did not sense the change in the rules. You
did”
Anakin
was taken aback. “I try to—“
“Try,
not. Do, or do not,” said Yoda. “There is no try”
Luke
smiled softly, as he said, “Anakin Solo, welcome to the ranks of Jedi
Knights”
---
Anakin
was flying his speeder through Coruscant. It was a fairly good speeder, a slick
red and shiny one, with no roof, and a black line running up the front. He was
dodging and weaving through the traffic of Coruscant.
Obi-Wan
had told him, aided by Anakin Skywalker, about their chase of Zam Wessel, a
bounty hunter, many years before, through Coruscant.
As
he waited at a stop post, he felt something, and looked up. Someone was
falling—straight at his speeder.
The
person landed with a thud on the seat next to him, rocking the whole car. The
stop post turned ‘Go’, but Anakin was too shocked to move.
The
person raised their face—it was Nade Sinh. She smiled as she straightened
herself to sit down.
“Anakin,
are you going to go or not?” she asked as she turned and looked at the angry
traffic behind them.
“Yes,”
he said, somewhat annoyed. “What are you doing here Nade?”
She
was a pretty young girl, of about sixteen, like Anakin. Her tan Jedi clothes
were almost the same, save for the colours. Her lightsabre was graceful and
elegant, and emitted a purple blade.
“I
just saw your speeder, and, since we would be working together, I jumped out”
Anakin
shook his head. “So. I’ll be working with you?”
“Correct”
“And
you are a Jedi Knight?”
“Also
correct”
“I
don’t believe you”
“Incorrect.
I know you do. You’ve seen my lightsabre”
“Then
you must be a Jedi,” said Anakin. “Just testing”
“Whatever,”
laughed Nade. “So,” she continued, “where are we going again? And when?”
“We’re
going to Iridionia. I’m leaving tonight. I suppose you’ll want a lift,
correct?”
“Correct.
But … why are we going there?” she asked.
Anakin
shook his head. “My master was killed there”
Nade
looked shocked. “Ho—“
“A
Sith killed him”. Anakin was looking directly ahead. Nade could feel him
emitting the negative energy from himself.
“I’m
sorry,” said Nade. They flew on in silence.
---
The
golden sun set on Coruscant as they returned from their tour of Coruscant.
Anakin had learned a bit from Nade, as she had from him.
They
were almost at the Jedi Temple, when a ship rounded the corner. It was a bit
like the Old Republic’s gunships, used in the Clone War, except that this ship
was red and black, and was slightly spiky, hovering with its atmospheric
repulsors.
“Anakin
…” said Nade. It sped towards them. And they realized what the spikes were.
They were all under the wings, three on each side. Then one of them fired.
Anakin
swerved; he was doing twenty parsecs a nanoclic. Extremely fast for a speeder.
He swerved around the gunship and sped around another building. Now the ship was
rapidly firing, aiming at Anakin’s speeder, but never hitting it; just the
buildings around it. Suddenly a missile launched from under the gunship’s
body.
It
wormed and weaved its way through the traffic.
Nade
sensed it first.
“Jump
Ani!” she yelled as she threw herself out of the speeder. Anakin jumped out
too; as he left, he felt the shudder as the missile hit and exploded. The whole
speeder was engulfed in a fireball, and Anakin and Nade were falling straight
down.
Anakin
noticed that they were right next to the Jedi Temple, and its hangar. He grabbed
Nade, and Force-pulled on the door of the hangar.
Since
it was a huge, stable object, Anakin was pulled towards it.
His
hand connected with the lever that opened the hangar’s door. He pulled it, and
yanked Nade to her feet, and sprinted in as the gunship blasted and blasted.
Once
inside, Anakin closed the door.
“Are
you okay, Nade?” he asked. She nodded.
Anakin
led her to his ship, a Jedi Starfighter. The design of it was like the old Jedi
Starfighters, which were red and white and were in the shape of a wedge. He
leapt into the cockpit followed by Nade. As the blast windshield closed and the
vacuum secured, Anakin turned his Starfighter to the door. As he’d expected,
the gunship outside was still blasting, and had punctured the door in some
spots. Then it fired a missile; and as soon as it hit and destroyed the door,
Anakin boosted out of it, through the explosion and past the gunship, which
wheeled to face them, lasers blasting.
Anakin
piloted the fighter out of the city, above it, and through the clouds and out of
the atmosphere.
“What
was that Annie?” asked Nade as they made it into space.
“I’m
not sure, but I’d say a Zabrak gunship”. Iridonia was home of a race called
the Zabrak. Since the Zabrak had a complex discipline section of the brain, they
could suffer immense physical pain.
Once,
a Sith Lord named Darth Maul, a Zabrak, had killed Obi-Wan Kenobi’s master,
Qui-Gon Jinn.
They
flew across space.
---
They
were near a cluster of planets, a strange system on the Outer Rim.
They
flew past Geonosis, a large ringed planet, and past Tatooine, a smallish desert
planet, and then they saw Kamino, a large blue planet.
As
Nade was admiring it, she sensed the ship behind them.
“It’s
back!” cried Anakin. He boosted through the asteroid field around Geonosis and
was aiming to land on Tatooine, when an explosion next to them rocked them off
course. They were heading to Kamino, so Anakin steered towards it more.
He
broke through the clouds to find it was pouring with rain, and that there was a
vast, grey, churning ocean in front of them. That engulfed the whole planet.
Anakin
steered his fighter towards the horizon, skimming the waves barely. He saw on
his scope a set of buildings ahead, large structures, domes on large columns.
The
ship behind them was blasting its guns at them, so Anakin dodged and swerved and
weaved, also avoiding the massive swells below them.
As
they neared the structures, Anakin noticed two things; there was a large square
platform floating above the waves next to the buildings, and that the ship
behind them had fired a proton missile.
Anakin
weaved between columns, hoping to lose the missile. It collided with the column
in front of them, sending shrapnel in their direction. Anakin saw the platform
up ahead, and subconsciously slowed down. The ship behind them roared just over
them, and as it passed over the platform, something dropped out of the bottom of
it.
It
was black, rippling and falling at a fast rate. Then it slowed down, and
stopped, then connected to the ground.
“It’s
him,” said Anakin as he felt the surge of hatred from the thing that
had fallen. “The Sith Lord”
“It
can’t be a—“ started Nade, but she stopped as she saw the red lightsabre
ignite.
As
the neared, Anakin prepared to leap out onto the platform. He opened the blast
shield, and rain and cold blasted in.
He
jumped out, leaving Nade to fly the fighter. She moved to the pilot’s seat,
and closed the cockpit.
---
Anakin
fell, using the Force to slow his fall. He slowed down more, and then touched
the platform.
Rain
splashed all around him. The hooded, masked figure in front of him watched,
empty eye sockets gleaming red.
“Who
are you?” yelled Anakin over the rain.
The
figure still stared intently. Then, “I am Darth Evisce. And at last will I
have my revenge”
---
Nade
piloted the fighter through the columns under the buildings on Kamino, the
disused Clone factories of long ago.
The
other fighter was behind her, blasting constantly. She weaved past one more
column, and then was in free ocean space. The fighter launched another missile.
Nade varied her speed, trying to shake the missile off her.
She
then was struck by an idea. She nosed the fighter down, and plunged the ship
into the ocean. The missile followed, but exploded on the surface of the water,
and as the enemy fighter blasted past, one of the engines caught fire, and
careened out of control back to the Clone facilities. Nade burst from the water
behind it, nudging it in the direction of one of the buildings.
The
fighter spun, then smashed into one of the columns, exploding into a hot flame.
---
“Your
Master was foolish, Anakin,” hissed Lord Evisce, his voice coming from
everywhere as he circled, stalked Anakin. “He died easily, as will you, unless
you succumb to the powers of the Dark Side”
“Never!”
cried Anakin. He leapt straight at Evisce, drawing and igniting his lightsabre.
He slashed down hard, but the attack was blocked easily.
Constantly,
the billions of midi-chlorians inside Anakin’s millions of billions of cells
in his body spoke to him, telling him what to do next.
Block,
down, up slash, parry, thrust, spin, jump, they told Anakin. He blocked blow
after furious blow.
Darth
Evisce was not relenting; his sharp fingers clutching his lightsabre, whose
blade was unusually tall and thin. The handle was about 30 centimetres long, and
when it was ignited, metal plates that protected the projection plate slid off
it.
Anakin’s
was a simple black and chrome-handled sabre like his mentor’s. The blue blade
able to lengthen and shorten.
With
these weapons, the two Jedi fought, slashing, ducking, and blocking each other.
Anakin flipped over Evisce to avoid a low horizontal swipe, and ran up along the
platform. Evisce leapt after him, to find that, to Anakin’s relief, the
platform tipped down under the weight of the two fighters.
Anakin
turned and Force-summoned the window of one of the nearby dome-topped columns.
He zoomed towards it as the platform he had just launched from crashed into the
waves below, sending spray into the air. He smashed through the window and
rolled. He turned off his lightsabre. He started looking around for Nade to see
if she was flying towards him, but then Darth Evisce soared up through the
window, lightsabre on. Anakin quickly withdrew his, too, but was hurled out
through the far window by blue lightning spreading from Evisce’s fingertips.
He groaned as he smashed through the window, and then everything was silent.
---
Nade
piloted the ship back to Anakin’s fighting place to see a figure plummet
helplessly towards the oceans, so she put the boosters on full power and opened
the cockpit. Anakin Solo landed inside with a crack, and groaned. Nade piloted
the Starfighter back to Coruscant.
---
“Yes,
Master Yoda,” said Anakin as he confronted the council once again. “It
wielded a red lightsabre, most definitely. I’d also say that we should go in
and destroy this monster. What can you see in the future, Master Yoda?”
“Hmm,”
said Yoda as he closed his eyes. “The Dark Side clouds much again. Felt this
in years, I have not. Sad, this is also. Assault on Iridonia we must set up. Use
the Empire’s old Stormtroopers, we will.
“Uncover
this mystery, we must”
“Thankyou,
Master Yoda. Who should I inform for help?”
“Help?”
repeated Luke. “We don’t need help, I think we got enough Jedi already”
“Master
Luke,” said Anakin, shocked, “are you sending in the Jedi to help Stormtroopers
in a war? I mean, with all due respect, we only have … what, a
hundred Jedi, this hasn’t been attempted since the Clone War!”
Luke,
Obi-Wan and Yoda exchanged looks. Anakin Skywalker sighed.
“Well,
young Anakin,” said Anakin Skywalker, “we will have to assign you someone,
and all know that Iridonia is the home of such foul creatures as Nexus, and so
on. I remember a nexu attacking us on Geonosis on the battle that sparked the
Clone War. They will have genetically modified nexu, I believe, and many Zabrak
warriors, and not to mention droids, this mysterious Sith Lord and his
Master—or Apprentice”
Anakin
Solo bowed and left.
---
Plans
were being made for the stormtroopers, dozens of clones made by a Sith Lord a
long time ago, and turned into the evil henchmen of the Empire, but now serve
the New Republic as soldiers, as Anakin heard. Anakin had decided to visit
Corellia, his home world before he went to attack Iridonia. He and Nade were
inside Anakin’s starfighter, plummeting through space. He disengaged the
ring-like attachment used for hyperspace travel and headed towards the darkened
planet.
The
Assault on Iridonia was to commence in four days’ time. Anakin steered towards
the dark planet.
As
he broke through the cloud-line, he noticed that they were above a huge valley
encircled by mountains. It was night. Anakin could remember that there was a
city over the eastern hills. Anakin zoomed over the mountains, but didn’t find
a city.
---
At
the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, Yoda was arguing with Obi-Wan Kenobi.
“Master
Yoda, with all respects, we can’t amass an army in time for this attack. We
have only one hundred and eighty two Jedi Knights, forty of which are Masters
and one hundred and one of which are Padawans. How are we to do it?”
Yoda
sighed, his green body surrounded by a blue light. He was becoming clearer
because he was concentrating. When he was meditating he disappeared, not being
needed in the Physical Force.
“Master
Obi-Wan,” Yoda began. “Your views are valued, but clouded they are also.
Underestimate not the power of the Jedi. Learn this, you will”
“Yes
Master, but-” Obi-Wan was interrupted as the door opened and a Jedi walked in,
followed by a citizen. The citizen’s clothing was simple, dark and made of
cloth. He had black hair, which matched his black clothing, and black eyes.
“Yes?”
asked Yoda.
The
Jedi Knight nodded. “This man claims to have Jedi abilities”
The
Council murmured.
“He,”
continued the Jedi, ”has even used the Force to create a lightsabre”
Luke
started. All of the Council was scanning the man, who looked pretty ordinary.
After a minutes’ time, Yoda, who still looked skeptical, reached out with his
mind and found that this man was a Void, showing neither the good, dark or even
neutral side of the Force.
“Show
us your lightsabre, please,” rasped Yoda. He picked up the lightsabre and
ignited it. A red beam shot out of it. It had one button and two letters, in
black, engraved in the side in close, logo-like fashion.
Yoda
raised an eyebrow.
The
man sensed what Yoda was thinking and explained.
“My
name is Sirna Ti,” he said. “I engraved my initials in it”
Yoda
looked up, eyes narrowed, brow furrowed. Then he snapped back to the here and
now.
“Asses
you, we will”
As
he left, Luke concentrated on the man.
“He’s
a Void,” Luke said as his eyes reappeared in their normal state. This caused
much murmuring, because a Void was a being who could blank out their mind;
normally, Jedi could sense whether a beings allegiance was good, evil, or
neutral. This man’s mind gave off none of those, because he chose not to
convey his thoughts.
A
Jedi trait, thought Luke.
Obi-Wan
turned to Luke. “This could mean anything. He could mean well, or he could
mean to destroy us”
Anakin
shook his head. “He would have done so while he had the chance, I believe. I
don’t trust this man”
Luke
shook his head, saying, “I’m not sure about this one. He seems to be fine,
so I suggest we ask if he wants to join the ranks of Jedi”
“But,”
Yoda pointed out, “If he refuses, destroyed, he will have to be. Ask him to
reveal his true allegiance, we will”
The
whole council sighed. Luke made a slight motion, and the door to the Council’s
room slid open with a hiss. A Jedi Knight stood outside, waiting, ready. He
walked in.
“Yes,
Masters?” he asked.
Luke
sighed. “Bring the man before us”
The
Knight nodded. He returned momentarily with the man.
Anakin
scanned the man quickly, and then spoke to him. “You aren’t giving off any
feelings, so we cannot assess you. Try to clear your mind, to push away the
blankness.
The
man nodded, and concentrated, trying to do so. “Master Jedi,” he said as he
relaxed after a moment. I have been doing this for long, so I am afraid that I
know not how to push this blankness away”
Luke
nodded. “That’s alright. As soon as we’ve tested you, we’ll get back to
you.”
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