Author - Kynstar (from the Jedi Council)
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Note 2
Bail,
Thank you so much for your letter. You don't know what it has meant to me to have the support of friends at such a time as this.
Savim and I deeply appreciate your concern. We had been keeping this under wraps, and I do ask that you do not share this, but she has been gravely ill for some months. I had thought to leave my post as Supreme Chancellor some time ago, and now I suspect I should have. Perhaps it was selfish of me to stay on, in the face of such developments in my personal life. I thought that I could continue to handle events of such importance as competently as always, but in light of recent events, perhaps not. Although…I look back at each decision I made, and I still see no better alterenative.
I have to stop this. None of it can now be changed, and I cannot continue to relieve decisions long since made.
My plans. A bad time to ask, I'm afraid, for I find myself torn on the matter. On the one hand, I am under investigation, and I do have to stay in the capitol until that is finished. Already it promises to be so unpleasant that I simply want to bolt for home the instant it is over.
And yet, I am still my planet's chief representative in the Senate, and I will be until wrongdoing can be proven—and I assure you it cannot! If I should turn tail and run now, it sends the wrong message…as if I have something to hide. Perhaps it makes little difference to me now, as Savim and I only want some peace, but I have to think of my three grown sons. Having to go about their daily business with a father accused of malfeasance in office cannot be pleasant for them.
In short, I do not know how to answer your question. I just don't, not at this point.
Your disclosure of private revelations to you by Naboo's Queen and Palpatine is bewildering to me. I don't know why you chose to share them.
At this point it matters little from a practical standpoint who started the idea to make the motion that eventually was made; however, Palpatine has always been my very closest ally, someone whose career I have in fact fostered over the years. It is true that the path between us has not always been smooth; however, I thought it above Palpatine to retaliate for personal disagreements in the political arena. However, the idea that fourteen year old Queen Amidala would lie about this seems unlikely to me.
I have searched for the appropriate way in which to handle what amounts to a personal betrayal. There is no easy way, and though what the Naboo delegation has done has been very personally painful to me, I had thought it best to do nothing. Although there of course were questions in my mind, and I shall always wonder…but in light of your disclosure about this, I may go to Palpatine and speak to him about it. Savim has been urging me to do so. Perhaps she is right. It may be the only way to come to some feeling of closure and resolution about the events of last week. So, perhaps it is good that you shared what you knew, whatever your reasons for doing so.
I thank you for your concern for us from the bottom of my heart. As for assistance…I know you have many demands upon your time, and I know that Sara and Savim are not nearly so well acquainted as you and I. But to provide her some companionship in this time of illness, as well as during all the stress of this investigation…if you and Sara could see your way to this, I would be so very grateful to you both. Perhaps a lunch, or a dinner? I should be pleased to offer you a confidential escort, as I know you may not wish a visit here to us to become public knowledge.
It is the support of friends like you which has moved and sustained us both through a very terrible time.
Thank you, thank you again, dear friend.
Sincerely,
F. Valorum