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Well, I think I interrupted a conversation when I ran into the central chamber just now. Padmé was still sitting there talking to Anakin, and they looked up at me like they didn't particularly like being interrupted. But, too bad. I don't intend to let Padmé suffer some harm because I was afraid of offending her. And once they got over the shock of me sliding into the chamber and nearly tripping over my own feet and the hem of my dress (I told you I was clumsy, didn't I?) they included me in their conversation.
I could tell Padmé was trying to cheer the boy up a bit by describing the race to me in animated terms, and it worked. By the end of the conversation, I was calling him "Ani" and chatting with him like we were old friends. In some ways he's just a normal ten-year-old and reminds me a bit of the kids back home. And then he mentions "Watto," the Toydarian who owned him back on Tatooine, or it hits me that this boy just won a podrace, when humans aren't even supposed to be able to race at all, or he gets this look in his eyes like he's seen things no person, let alone a child, should even have seen, and I realize that he is very special.
In any case, I haven't made a friend so quickly in a very long time, maybe ever. He's a little wary and shy, but once he saw that Padmé trusts me, he opened right up. I'm almost disappointed that I probably won't see him again once we reach Coruscant, since Master Jinn is planning on training him as a Jedi. Well, we just came out of hyperspace, so I better go.
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