They asked him the same question again and again.
And every time he answered, he lied but he wished that he could tell them the truth just to make them stop.
"Where is she?" the angry voice sounded in his ear again.
"I don't know," he whispered and waited for the pain to arrive.
He bit his lip not to scream when they hurt him to get the information they needed. But suddenly, they stopped.
"I guess this method will not bring us far," one of them said. "He will die before telling us where she is. Bring me …"
The scene faded to black before Obi-Wan could hear how the sentence ended.
When he woke up again, he lay in the same small room he had been in before they started questioning him.
"Anakin!" he said through the Force. "You must find her. Protect her," he couldn't hear an answer from Anakin. He just hoped that Anakin could hear him. Again, everything faded.
"Who is "she"?" Anakin asked Master Windu. "He told me to protect her. But whom?"
A few hours ago, they discovered that Obi-Wan was captured by some unknown people. Yoda and a few other Jedi Masters were on a rescue mission and Anakin tried to do what his Master wanted from him.
"It's his daughter," Windu answered.
"His daughter?" Anakin couldn't believe what he had heard.
"Yes, his daughter."
"How?" he didn't know what to say.
"She has to be eighteen now."
"But why do I have to protect her? What is so special about her? And where is she? Why didn't Obi-Wan mention her?" there were too many questions in his head.
"Calm down!" Windu said. "Her mother died in childbirth and Obi-Wan was a Jedi. She couldn't live with him. We gave her a secret to keep and sent her to another galaxy in order to keep her safe. It was a long journey but when she was ten, she arrived at her new home. She doesn't know about the secret and only Obi-Wan and Master Yoda know the exact place she lives at the moment."
"What secret?"
"I can't tell you. It's too dangerous."
"But how could Obi-Wan make his daughter keep the secret if it's so dangerous?"
"He knew how important this was."
"Did he never want to see her?"
"He got special technical equipment to see her."
"But how could I protect her if she lives that far away?"
"We have new secret transporters that you can use. But if you agree to this mission, you have to promise to say nothing about it. Not a word to anybody. And you must keep her alive and safe. If she gets captured …"
"Then what?"
"I can't tell you. Not yet."
When Obi-Wan woke up again, he heard some voices on the other side of the door.
"We will pay you well!" a strange voice said.
"But we need him alive and healthy!"
"You'll get what you ask for, just tell me who it is and where I can find him."
The voices were low and Obi-Wan had to concentrate to understand them. But it was quiet now.
"Skywalker! I'll get him for you!"
"Sshhh. Don't be so loud!"
Obi-Wan was shocked when he heard Anakin's name.
What did they want from him? He had never told him about her.
He tried to reach Anakin through the Force, but he couldn't find him. Anakin must have left to do what he wanted from him.
He could just hope that Anakin was careful.
