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Well, from what I've been able to pick up, the Jedi's plan is to try to win enough money to get us off Tatooine by betting on the pod races. I'm pretty sure I must have missed something, because that doesn't sound very much like what I'd expect a Jedi to do, but...who knows? Everything that's happened to me in the last six months has been completely unexpected, so why should I be surprised by gambling Jedi?
Okay, well, the truth is that's an oversimplification. Master Jinn isn't really "betting on the races" the way it's usually done. He's helping to sponsor a little boy who wants to race, and if the boy wins, his master will provide us with the parts we need. Or something like that.
It's definitely a gamble, though, and I have a feeling that Padmé isn't too happy about the whole situation. She's probably seething, and for the first time in six months, she doesn't have any of her Handmaidens to listen to her vent. Sabé attempted to demand she be allowed to speak with her "handmaiden," but Master Jinn pretty much ignored that, and turned his comm unit off. At least Jedi Kenobi had the good grace to look sheepish as he put his own away.
I can tell that Sabé is frustrated in her new role. I guess this experiment proves that it isn't really the makeup or the wardrobe or even the title that makes the Queen–it really is the person under the makeup, inside the clothes, bearing the title, who determines the power that role has. At least that seems to be true in this case. I bet Sabé will get the hang of it, though. Right now she's just nervous and jumpy like all of us. Being cooped up like this isn't doing anyone any good.
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