Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones by R. A. Salvatore

Author:R. A. Salvatore [Salvatore, R. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Novela, Aventuras, Ciencia ficción
Publisher: ePubLibre
Published: 2001-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

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Padmé stared at her older sister until, at last, Sola broke down and asked, “What?”

The two of them were alone together, while Jobal and Ruwee entertained Anakin out in the sitting room.

“Why do you keep saying such things about me and Anakin?”

“Because it’s obvious,” Sola replied. “You see it—you can’t deny it to yourself.”

Padmé sighed and sat down on the bed, her posture and expression giving all the confirmation that Sola needed.

“I thought Jedi weren’t supposed to think such things,” Sola remarked.

“They’re not.”

“But Anakin does.” Sola’s words brought Padmé’s gaze up to meet hers. “You know I’m right.”

Padmé shook her head helplessly, and Sola laughed.

“You think more like a Jedi than he does,” she said. “And you shouldn’t.”

“What do you mean?” Padmé didn’t know whether to take offense, having no idea of where her sister was heading with this.

“You’re so tied up in your responsibilities that you don’t give any weight to your desires,” Sola explained. “Even with your own feelings toward Anakin.”

“You don’t know how I feel about Anakin.”

“You probably don’t either,” Sola said. “Because you won’t allow yourself to even think about it. Being a Senator and being a girlfriend aren’t mutually exclusive, you know.”

“My work is important!”

“Who said it wasn’t?” Sola asked, holding her hands up in a gesture of peace. “It’s funny, Padmé, because you act as if you’re prohibited, and you’re not, while Anakin acts as if he’s under no such prohibitions, and he is!”

“You’re way ahead of everything here,” Padmé said. “Anakin and I have only been together for a few days—before that, I hadn’t seen him in a decade!”

Sola shrugged. Her look went from that sly grin she had been sporting since dinner to one of more genuine concern for her sister. She sat down on the bed beside Padmé and draped an arm across her shoulders. “I don’t know any of the details, and you’re right, I don’t know how you feel—about any of this. But I know how he feels, and so do you.”

Padmé didn’t disagree. She just sat there, comfortable in Sola’s hug, gazing down at the floor, trying not to think.

“It frightens you,” Sola remarked. Surprised, Padmé looked back up.

“What are you afraid of, Sis?” Sola asked sincerely. “Are you afraid of Anakin’s feelings and the responsibilities that he cannot dismiss? Or are you afraid of your own feelings?”

She lifted Padmé’s chin, so that they were looking at each other directly, their faces only a breath apart. “I don’t know how you feel,” she admitted again. “But I suspect that it’s something new to you. Something scary, but something wonderful.”

Padmé said nothing, but she knew that disagreement would not be honest.

“They’re a lot to digest, all at once,” Padmé said to Anakin later on, when the two were alone in her room. She had barely unpacked her things, and was now throwing clothes into her bag once more. Different clothes this time, though. Less formal than the outfits she had to wear as a representative of Naboo.

“Your

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