[This feels weird. Anakin hears the words and his first reaction, his instinct, is to buck against them. After all, he isn't a youngling anymore. He understands why the Council didn't want to take him and he understands now just how different he had been from his peers. He can't even make the leap just yet to lean on Obi-Wan's declaration. Because-] The Jedi can't compromise. [Anakin's voice is a rumble of matter-of-fact confusion, the way a child would uncover a trick question. And in that way there's a kind of truth to be revealed- that Anakin still views the world this way. He sees the good and the bad, right and wrong, a framework that he accepts completely and then tries to build a life around.]
[Obi-Wan's feet come in and out of the water, taking tiny droplets along for the ride and leaving small whorls beneath the surface. Even over here, beneath the dock, those man-made ripples tug on his fin, slide through his scales. Anakin stretches his tail out and sees the length of it there, only a few inches beneath the place where Obi-Wan himself keeps dipping his feet. Invisible in the water.] Then we wouldn't be Jedi, we'd be something else.
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[Obi-Wan's feet come in and out of the water, taking tiny droplets along for the ride and leaving small whorls beneath the surface. Even over here, beneath the dock, those man-made ripples tug on his fin, slide through his scales. Anakin stretches his tail out and sees the length of it there, only a few inches beneath the place where Obi-Wan himself keeps dipping his feet. Invisible in the water.] Then we wouldn't be Jedi, we'd be something else.