Cradle to Grave

by Leah Naberrie

A biography of Obi Wan Kenobi in drabbles. My response to the 100 drabble challenge at TFN.

9. months

Cradle to Grave

''

9, months

We both mourned.

Myself for my Master, my mentor, my friend; my old sheltered life as a Padawan.

(Freedom.)

He for his mother; his imagined connection to Queen Amidala; his life as a slave in the Hutts cartel.

(Freedom.)

Months after Qui-Gon's death, mourning ends.

"You and I will have to learn to trust each other," I tell him.

He nods eagerly.

So eager to please, to not get in the way. It is not difficult to see the charm, to be won by it.

I take no pleasure that in the end, his adoration comes to me, not Qui-Gon.

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