Cradle to Grave

by Leah Naberrie

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

82. everything

Cradle to Grave

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82, everything

"The Force is like swimming."

Obi-Wan's look said, 'Blasphemy!' and Bant laughed.

"Don't be such a prude, Obi-Wan. I'm just trying to describe it to you. It's like…" Her face became dreamy. "It's like when I'm in the water, I become the water. I see what the water sees; I touch what the water touches. I'm everything and everything is me."

He frowned. "It still doesn't sound quite right…"

Bant flapped her fins impatiently. "You have no sense of poetry," she complained.

With extreme dignity, he drew himself up to his full ten-year-old height. "I'm a Jedi, not a poet."

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