"It's complicated," Ezra warns, wryly. "Or - I bet I'm over complicating it."
"Temba. My first stop on the multi-verse go-round." He blows out a breath.
"There were three of us padawan age and level, there. All of us from after the Republic became the Empire. Obi-wan got there a little before I did, and went out in the wilderness for like, a solid month, and came back determined to be - to be Jedi Master and High Councillor Obi-wan Kenobi. He and I talked about what happened to you. And what happened to Anakin. And we agreed there's no such thing as replacing people we lost, but that we could go forward as master and padawan. I thought - if..if the Force kept us together long enough, we might, um, both eventually be ready for him to knight me."
A beat. "But that's not what happened. And then I was here and he didn't know me at all. Hadn't yet, then, even experienced the end of the Clone Wars. He was kind, and made it clear we're family as Jedi, and he's been a teacher, yes, but it's not exactly the same. He's...a different man shaped by different circumstances. And absolutely not, now, in a place he felt he could just, well, knight me."
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"Temba. My first stop on the multi-verse go-round." He blows out a breath.
"There were three of us padawan age and level, there. All of us from after the Republic became the Empire. Obi-wan got there a little before I did, and went out in the wilderness for like, a solid month, and came back determined to be - to be Jedi Master and High Councillor Obi-wan Kenobi. He and I talked about what happened to you. And what happened to Anakin. And we agreed there's no such thing as replacing people we lost, but that we could go forward as master and padawan. I thought - if..if the Force kept us together long enough, we might, um, both eventually be ready for him to knight me."
A beat. "But that's not what happened. And then I was here and he didn't know me at all. Hadn't yet, then, even experienced the end of the Clone Wars. He was kind, and made it clear we're family as Jedi, and he's been a teacher, yes, but it's not exactly the same. He's...a different man shaped by different circumstances. And absolutely not, now, in a place he felt he could just, well, knight me."