Disclaimer: I don't own Star Wars or The Clone Wars.
Series Note: This is the first in what will be a series of drabbles focusing on different characters and their reactions to war. They'll probably mostly be Clone Wars related, though I have a couple that are ROTS-flavored.


Ahsoka Tano

She's found that the war really isn't so bad, if she just thinks about it right. The masters always say that focus determines reality, and that's more true here than ever.

She grew up in the Temple practicing her lightsaber exercises against the training droids, dodge and lunge and deflect, and these battle droids are not really any different. They are larger, true, and vaguely humanoid-shaped, but they're still just droids. She knows how to deal with droids.

She likes the metallic grinding sound they make when her lightsaber slices through them. She likes the way they fall in rings around her feet, like an exercise well-done. She likes to imagine that Master Yoda would praise her technique if he could see her now. Sometimes Master Anakin does praise her, and those are her favorite moments. Not just because she wants to make him proud, although he is her master and she does. But when he praises her it's just like being back in the Temple, and this war is just an exercise, and that means she's in control.

Sometimes the droids make little noises of surprise when she slices through them. They sound almost like people, and she hates that fact, so she stares long and hard at their motionless faces.

They're just training droids, and she's a padawan learner and she's here to learn, and everything is just like it's always been.