POST # 44
Anakin took his leave from the warriors at the cross road to the main village. He banked the speeder bike hard as he sped past a bend in the forest leading to the main village. He was smiling to himself, happy at the thought of seeing Padmé again. He didn't know he would miss her this much. He had stared at the full moon most of the night, unable to sleep. He had been thinking of her all the time.
He saw a lot of activity around the village; it seemed that the whole village was preparing for something. But no one wanted to speak to him. They would scamper away as soon as they saw who he was. Anakin wondered if this is the way they treated all strangers or were they so aloof because they suspected him of being a kinanah. It certainly didn't look like they were preparing for a hanging, more like some kind of a celebration.
Anakin saw more activity in their room,
"what's going on he asked?" He looked around for the Queen. About a dozen girls were crowding round something and jabbering noisily. They started to giggle and nudge each other when they saw him.
He called out to the queen again from the safety of the doorway, this time a voice answered from somewhere in the middle of the girls. They moved away. He saw her and was so pleased to see a familiar face again. She was beautiful, he thought.
"Anakin I have decided to go to the dinner." Amidala shouted trying to turn her head but was prevented from doing so by the young girl attending to her hairdo.
"The chief said to tell you to go to the warrior village where they will help you prepare." She added.
Anakin began to walk back to the bike-not sure what the chief wanted with him in the village-he looked at his tattered clothes and wondered what she meant by 'prepare you'.
Anakin had come to tell her how much he missed her last night-but could not do so because of the crowd around her. He wanted desperately to be alone with her for a while. "This dinner is going to keep her away from me," he thought glumly.
Back in the village Liane was waiting for him and immediately took him to a room filled with other warriors. They all crowded round him and made a lot of fuss over him. Anakin felt very important.
"Now this is how people should be treating guests." He said with a puffed chest. The boys helped him to wash up
and dressed him up in strange clothes.
Long sleeved Shirt with tight long pants, high leather boots and a thick belt at the waist, waist coats on top. They tied a sort of high square turban round his head. Everything was white except the boots which were a bright shiny black. One of the boys helped tie the endless lace on it as the boots nearly came to his knees. Liane told him this was the uniform of Capa princes when they attended official ceremonies, as consort of the Queen you will be treated just like a prince.
Anakin looked in the mirror and he saw a handsome tall prince looking back at him.
"My sword would have completed the uniform," he told Liane. A boy from behind held his saber out to him. He snapped it to his belt then looked at himself again very pleased with what he saw.
After they'd dressed him up. All the other boys too dressed up in military style uniforms and head dresses similar to his but of a different color they all wore black.
After they were ready they just hung about there talking and jibbing. Anakin was the center of their jibes.
"You don't know what a break you have given us, Anakin" Liane said. We are allowed into the main village only to attend the wedding ceremony of our fellow kinanahs. It is months sometimes years before that happens.
Anakin wanted to know who's wedding it was-how lucky to be at the village when a wedding was taking place he thought.
"You're wedding stupid!" Liane told him,
"but ...but ...I'm... I'm married already."
So that was a small affair this is the real thing; the grand wedding. Anakin was so excited, his feet were trembling. He hoped the bride was the Queen and not another Capa surprise. He remembered the Queen surrounded by those girls and she looked so pretty. Anakin couldn't help smiling.
Anakin took his leave from the warriors at the cross road to the main village. He banked the speeder bike hard as he sped past a bend in the forest leading to the main village. He was smiling to himself, happy at the thought of seeing Padmé again. He didn't know he would miss her this much. He had stared at the full moon most of the night, unable to sleep. He had been thinking of her all the time.
He saw a lot of activity around the village; it seemed that the whole village was preparing for something. But no one wanted to speak to him. They would scamper away as soon as they saw who he was. Anakin wondered if this is the way they treated all strangers or were they so aloof because they suspected him of being a kinanah. It certainly didn't look like they were preparing for a hanging, more like some kind of a celebration.
Anakin saw more activity in their room,
"what's going on he asked?" He looked around for the Queen. About a dozen girls were crowding round something and jabbering noisily. They started to giggle and nudge each other when they saw him.
He called out to the queen again from the safety of the doorway, this time a voice answered from somewhere in the middle of the girls. They moved away. He saw her and was so pleased to see a familiar face again. She was beautiful, he thought.
"Anakin I have decided to go to the dinner." Amidala shouted trying to turn her head but was prevented from doing so by the young girl attending to her hairdo.
"The chief said to tell you to go to the warrior village where they will help you prepare." She added.
Anakin began to walk back to the bike-not sure what the chief wanted with him in the village-he looked at his tattered clothes and wondered what she meant by 'prepare you'.
Anakin had come to tell her how much he missed her last night-but could not do so because of the crowd around her. He wanted desperately to be alone with her for a while. "This dinner is going to keep her away from me," he thought glumly.
Back in the village Liane was waiting for him and immediately took him to a room filled with other warriors. They all crowded round him and made a lot of fuss over him. Anakin felt very important.
"Now this is how people should be treating guests." He said with a puffed chest. The boys helped him to wash up
and dressed him up in strange clothes.
Long sleeved Shirt with tight long pants, high leather boots and a thick belt at the waist, waist coats on top. They tied a sort of high square turban round his head. Everything was white except the boots which were a bright shiny black. One of the boys helped tie the endless lace on it as the boots nearly came to his knees. Liane told him this was the uniform of Capa princes when they attended official ceremonies, as consort of the Queen you will be treated just like a prince.
Anakin looked in the mirror and he saw a handsome tall prince looking back at him.
"My sword would have completed the uniform," he told Liane. A boy from behind held his saber out to him. He snapped it to his belt then looked at himself again very pleased with what he saw.
After they'd dressed him up. All the other boys too dressed up in military style uniforms and head dresses similar to his but of a different color they all wore black.
After they were ready they just hung about there talking and jibbing. Anakin was the center of their jibes.
"You don't know what a break you have given us, Anakin" Liane said. We are allowed into the main village only to attend the wedding ceremony of our fellow kinanahs. It is months sometimes years before that happens.
Anakin wanted to know who's wedding it was-how lucky to be at the village when a wedding was taking place he thought.
"You're wedding stupid!" Liane told him,
"but ...but ...I'm... I'm married already."
So that was a small affair this is the real thing; the grand wedding. Anakin was so excited, his feet were trembling. He hoped the bride was the Queen and not another Capa surprise. He remembered the Queen surrounded by those girls and she looked so pretty. Anakin couldn't help smiling.