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Disclaimer: This is all the property of a man's genius whom I would like to possess. George Lucas…
Death!
Death! All around him, inside him. He stood stoically; a feat which many thought impossible.
Unable to feel except the terrible pain that the knowledge caused. Unable to touch for the one had had loved was gone.
Loved? Yes loved. He had never imagined it would be. They were always together. Never without the other… of course it was never more then friendship or so he had thought.
Yet, looking back on it now in a moment of weakness he acknowledged that it was their own fear that kept them from taking that final step into something more.
A single tear coursed down his cheek and he watched all the others come to him offer him condolences. Cry for the loss of a beloved friend… for the loss of a part of themselves for they had all merged into one during the years that they had known each other.
A tear was a beautiful thing, precious not unlike what they had shared. Beautiful, because at its root it was so simple, natural but at the fore was a complicated maze of emotion and feeling. An outward manifestation of everything they had shared.
It didn't seem like enough. Everything was painstakingly structured. The funeral a send off fit for the hero that his friend had surely been. They had talked, they had cried, they had held each other together for the whole galaxy would be watching.
The funeral pyre burned and he thought that it was the blaze of glory his friend should have gone down in… Not a slow death caused by an illness which had been concealed from all concerned. Lied to, betrayed. Why couldn't he have known, why wasn't it him lying there a shadow of his former self.
The ceremony ended, goodbyes must be said and all that he could think to do was place a ewok doll into the ruins. A doll with the name of his best friend, the name of the man he had loved.
Farewell Hobbie Klivian. The chief of state said. An inspiration to us all.