[If she'd had the heart to explain it, it would have been difficult to contend--because it's true, really, at the end of the day. That ties into Jedi philosophy already, in a way; to grieve overly long for the dead was seen as unfitting, joined with the Force as they are, a better peace than could possibly be found in life--something to be happy for. But the living cannot let go so easily.
He's already let go of so many things, and yet still....his hand just never is entirely empty. If a fist is clenched long enough, it freezes shut.]
FROM: kenobi.obiwan@cdc.org This is true.
FROM: kenobi.obiwan@cdc.org I've just...never had to decide on these sorts of things before, I suppose. Not on this scale. Not
FROM: kenobi.obiwan@cdc.org alone
FROM: kenobi.obiwan@cdc.org I'll think on it. It cannot be very large. But I must learn the names. And it ought to be lasting. Perhaps if we one day find a place that is also lasting...
[Easier said than done, probably, now isn't that? In a place like the CDC. And in a way it goes on to undermine Fiona's point anyway--about not being 'where', but 'who'. For Obi-Wan both of those things are still synonymous, though, difficult to tangle apart. The Temple had stood for thousands and thousands of years. The Temple was home--that was who they were. But where now?
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He's already let go of so many things, and yet still....his hand just never is entirely empty. If a fist is clenched long enough, it freezes shut.]
FROM: kenobi.obiwan@cdc.org
This is true.
FROM: kenobi.obiwan@cdc.org
I've just...never had to decide on these sorts of things before, I suppose. Not on this scale. Not
FROM: kenobi.obiwan@cdc.org
alone
FROM: kenobi.obiwan@cdc.org
I'll think on it. It cannot be very large. But I must learn the names. And it ought to be lasting. Perhaps if we one day find a place that is also lasting...
[Easier said than done, probably, now isn't that? In a place like the CDC. And in a way it goes on to undermine Fiona's point anyway--about not being 'where', but 'who'. For Obi-Wan both of those things are still synonymous, though, difficult to tangle apart. The Temple had stood for thousands and thousands of years. The Temple was home--that was who they were. But where now?
He never was very good at this.]