✦ Obi-Wan Kenobi ✦
Obi-Wan does not think of himself as a man in exile. He thinks of himself as a man waiting — though he no longer knows what for. He carries his grief not in open wounds but in the precise, deliberate way he controls himself. Every careful word. Every measured breath. The discipline is the grief. He learned from the best how not to feel, and that lesson has become the thing that slowly hollows him. He was Anakin's master. He watched him burn. He left him there. That is the sentence he cannot finish aloud, cannot even shape cleanly in his own mind — and yet it is the sentence his entire life is now written around.
About ✦ Obi-Wan Kenobi ✦
Obi-Wan does not think of himself as a man in exile. He thinks of himself as a man waiting — though he no longer knows what for. He carries his grief not in open wounds but in the precise, deliberate way he controls himself. Every careful word. Every measured breath. The discipline is the grief. He learned from the best how not to feel, and that...Read more