Farewell
Two friends parting. Missing moment, ESB.
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A/N: So, a blizzard and a misty night set me thinking … that I had never met a version of this explanation! Here's a go at remedying that :)
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The tail-light of the X-wing shone above them, a pinprick in the darkness, a vanishing star. Then the boy must have started the hyperdrive to jump into lightspeed. The last fleck of light blotted out. And still the last Jedi and the Force ghost of his former pupil stood in the marshy darkness and gazed up into the sky.
The mists rose, slowly, wreathing past them like blue wood smoke. Shadows crept out of the trees, as black as the sky they watched. Finally, a night bird whirred past in the darkness, with its harsh, creaking call. Obi-wan stirred and looked down. "Go in, you should."
"Eight hundred years too young you are, to tell me that," the older Jedi retorted.
Obi-wan chuckled. "Don't you remember how often Qui-Gon used to end up with the Healers when the Living Force had called him into the gardens quite regardless of the rain and night mist?"
"Despair of the Healers, you two were," Yoda observed. "Always, one of you sick."
"Two," Obi-wan echoed thoughtfully. He looked back up at the sky where the X-wing had vanished, and then down at Yoda. "One other?"
"Yes."
Another long pause in the night mist.
"Leia?
Yoda inclined his head solemnly. "Call to each other, they can."
Perhaps to mark this point, the unseen bird in the darkness called again, then flapped away with a clatter of wing beats. Obi-wan considered. "She is feistier," he said slowly, and then chuckled once more. "You would find blaster holes in your hut!" He turned slightly, gathering his robes and the blue Force glow about him like a cloak. "For the present, then, I must go."
Yoda looked up at the sky, and then folded his hands over his stick and bowed. "Wait, I must."
"Indoors," Obi-wan reiterated with sudden firmness. "Which ever one of them comes, you need to be here, Master Yoda."
They looked at each other in silence, and then Yoda bowed again. "Here, I will be. Eight hundred years, I have been. My word, you have."
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