"Is there any plan?" Anakin asked, as he stood with Ahsoka, Jor and the new man they met, outside the fort.
"You don't have any, do you?" He said sardonically.
"Well that's why we have you brave men! Help us here." Jor exclaimed.
Suddenly the new man asked, "You are Jedi, aren't you?"
Ahsoka Tano did not know how to respond to this. This had caught her off guard. Anakin for his part, found himself caring less and less. I just want to finish this task, he thought.
I am going back to the Emperor. After this. The Dark Side was kept at bay from Anakin… He could only think he was in the presence of Ahsoka and Padme… They still kept by him, he wondered….
When will Padme deliver? She was not able to fight. I must stay by here till then. For her, and for the baby. Did he fear Sidious? Anakin thought. But he did not think he did. At least, yet.
He kept himself firm now. Anakin was never afraid of anything, that he was not. Especially of any fight.
The man who asked Ahsoka felt he knew the answer to the question. But he did not press on.
Ahsoka was grateful to him for this. But he could hardly be against the Jedi, when he too, understood what the Empire was… What the Empire was capable of doing.
Of kidnapping young children and holding them hostage.
"All Right. We have to surround the main entrance to this… Whatever fortress you say this is," Anakin said. "Then I and Ahsoka will infiltrate inside… as we have done in the past.
"We'll rescue the girl, before anything can happen. And then you maintain contact with this Councilor Voax."
"We have no other alternative," said Jor. "But I ask you not to engage in any violence. Whoever these men may be, they are still of this city and planet. We do not want them dead."
On this, Ahsoka agreed. "We should leave soon, Anakin," she said.
"All Right, let's get down to action. Let us move forward." He said.