It all started while she was in the middle of her prayers, a feeling that swelled in her heart told Sawda to get up and leave her home, while her babe was in the cot. The feeling told her to climb over the sand dune in the scorching heat of Tatooine and when she did Sawda saw a hooded figure journeying across the plain. It was him. She couldn't explain how she knew but she knew. Now was the only chance.
"Hello there!" she called out. Running down the dune and into the desert plain that made up Tatooine. The hooded figure stopped and looked towards her, Sawda was waving her arm in the air like a madwoman.
"Oh good sir!" she exclaimed, "Oh good sir! I need your help!"
She knew the man didn't recognize her, and she placed no blame upon him for that.
"Oh? Are you alright?" he removed his hood, and a light filled her heart when she saw his face. He looked the same, but she sensed peace when she looked into his green eyes.
"My daughter-"Sawda gasped, as she was still catching her breath, "My daughter is ill, I am nothing but an uneducated servant girl, please she's just a babe."
"Uh- The medical unit in the village over- ", He began to point in the direction of the village.
"No- no! This is the child's darkest hour, please! You're our only hope!"
Those words struck a chord with him, his head snapped back and met Sawda's brown eyes. Sawda felt something awaken within him, she knew all was to be well.
"But… well I suppose…" he sighed, and finally sternly spoke, "Show me the way."
"Thank you, kind sir!"
"Now, now, you can call me Ben!"
Upon arriving at her small hut, baby Anya was crying aloud and Sawda was happy about that. Sawda gestured Ben to enter the home first and he finally saw.
Every time Anya cried the hut shook, and if her cry became louder things would fly from one end to the other. When Sawda and Ben entered, a twister of levitating objects cluttered the home.
"I- I can't believe this!" Ben exclaimed.
Sawda put her hand on his arm, "Yes you can…"
She calmly reached the cot and picked up Vera, calming her down. When the babe stopped crying all the things fell to the ground. Not breaking her gaze away from his, she held the babe close to her shoulder, "You know what this is, don't you?"
"Yes… and I can't help… all I can say is that, the girl must stay in hiding and never be seen doing any of… this." He said gesturing around the home.
"What do you mean? Are you really just going to leave her?"
"What's the point?" He said aggravated, "Her people are extinct!"
"People come and go- but the Force will still be strong" Sawda snapped.
Ben looked away, after all this time he was still in pain, "No!"
"Are you really going to keep running, Ben?"
"Who do you think you are?" Ben exploded, "DO YOU WANT YOUR DAUGHTER TO DIE?"
His tone and volume led Sawda to lose control as well, "SHE'S YOUR DAUGHTER, TOO!"
The red flush vanished from Ben's face, he was as white as a sheet. "Wha-"
"Read my mind, you fool!" Sawda fumed. The baby's coo served as a reminder for them to watch their volume however nothing more needed to be said. Ben looking into Sawda's mind was a looking glass into his memories. He remembered who he was when he arrived on Tatooine, he remembered Sawda.
He reached for a chair to sit down, "Sawda…"
"Obi- Wan."
