Cradle to Grave

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3, ends

The boy had grown in wisdom and stature, and no longer did Ben look into Luke's face and see Obi-Wan's old apprentice.

"Don't leave me, Ben."

Like his father, the boy was weakened by his attachments. The Skywalker fatal flaw. But Qui-Gon considered it a source of strength. Even Yoda had thought the same in the end.

But Ben wondered. He wondered and he worried.

Still, his time here was done. It was time for others to lift the cross he had carried all his life.

"Not the last of the old Jedi, Luke. The first of the new."

Dissolve.

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