Suddenly, as if a silk blanket had been lifted, the voices, and the feeling left. But, the feeling of the force also left.

Where is the force? It should be flowing through my body. But its just. . . gone.

He took one step to the left, away from the bed, and Padme, and felt the force come back to him faintly. he sensed two lifeforms in the room besides him and his beloved.

He called out, "Hello? Anybody there?"

When nobody answered, he started walking towards the bed.

With a sound like a blaster firing, a hole was burnt into the wall opposite Anakin.

Sensing danger, he grabbed, and ignited his lightsaber just in time to deflect the next, better aimed shot.

Using the force, he tried to push the blaster out of the hand of the attacker, but was to weak.

He noticed a small casing on the back of the attacker, and through his lightsaber, hitting the target.

He felt the force return to him, and he pulled the blaster out of reach of his attacker.

"Who are you?!" He asked, checking to make sure Padme was still sleeping.

A gravely voice says something from the shadows, and the assassin seems to grin.

"To bad for you," the assassin says with a voice like ice forming on the leaves of a tree.

The assassin punches his chest, and explodes, creating a gust of wind and ash flying towards Anakin and the sleeping Padme.

Anakin reaches out with the force, and senses a life form. Using the force, he pulls it towards him, and as he does this notices the shadow seems to move towards him where the gravely voiced being should have been.

"No. You will not pull me into the light!" The voice says.

Suddenly, Anakin feels the shadow pulling back against the force with even more strength than Anakin thought possible. Using more and more strength, Anakin finally gets the shadow out into the light.

There in the middle of the room, is a hole. a hole of pure blackness, that seems to suck light towards it is just standing there in the middle of the room.

Anakin using the force, tries to sense the beings thoughts, and tries to determine what it is. He finds a word.

Wraith.

"So," he says knowingly, almost obnoxiously. "You're a wraith."

The wraith whispers something, but Anakin using the force catches a bit of it, '...never will know the truth..."