I, Jedi by Stackpole Michael A

Author:Stackpole, Michael A. [Stackpole, Michael A.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

That stopped him. “Really?” His blue eyes became as icy as the tone of his voice. “Would you care to enlighten me?”

I sat back and held my hands up. “You don’t want me to do this.”

Luke nodded and opened his hands toward me. “No, please.”

“You’re the Jedi Master. You know better than I what you’re doing.”

Luke’s expression hardened. “Tell me what you think, tell me where you think I am going wrong.”

“Okay.” Gathering my courage, I kept my face impassive and my voice even.

“Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda both knew your father had been Anakin Skywalker, and had become Darth Vader. You and your sister were separated at birth and hidden away from him to keep you safe, correct?”

Luke nodded.

“Then how is it that you were brought to live on Tatooine? Wasn’t that Obi-Wan Kenobi’s homeworld? You were allowed to live under the name Skywalker. Did they expect Vader’s people would overlook such a reference? And weren’t you trying to get into the Imperial Academy at Carida? Wouldn’t Vader’s people notice that name on your application?”

Luke focused distantly. “Are you trying to say they were using me as bait to lure Vader into a trap where Obi-Wan could confront him?”

“I don’t know, but from a certain point of view, that could appear to be the truth, couldn’t it? Or it could be something as benign as wanting you to grow up with the Skywalker name to provide you with greater motivation to want to redeem it. And they could have had you on Tatooine so there was a logical reason why traces of Obi-Wan’s presence would be detected there-where he once lived-in case your guardian’s attempts to keep himself hidden failed somehow.” I watched him care-fully. “I do think, however, your education has channeled your thinking into certain pathways, just as you suspect my training has done with mine.”

‘Such as?”

“You see everything in black and white-cleanly defined absolutes. I think, whatever they had intended at first, Obi-Wan and Yoda decided they needed to shape you into a weapon they could use against Vader and the Emperor. Why didn’t they tell you Vader was your father? They knew, as an orphan, you wanted to know who your father was. They didn’t let you see him that way so you would not be vulnerable. When he told you who he was, he blunted their strategy, but he didn’t count on your strength. You saw his admission to you as a covert cry for help, a bid for salvation. From what you’ve said, your mentors doubted it, as did the Emperor. You fooled them all and succeeded. Now you’ve turned that success into a validation of everything you were taught, even though what you were taught doesn’t support the results you got.”

Luke stared hard at me. “You do not think there is only light and dark?

If you leave here with that thought in your mind, you will be vulnerable to the dark side. You will be seduced by it.”

I shook my head slowly. “I’ve nothing to fear from the dark side.

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