“He’s a good man. One of the best I’ve known.” She should have been more careful with her words, but she didn’t care. “His first words after telling me were to defend you, to insist I not punish you for actions you haven’t taken.”
And Anakin owned up to the choices he would make. It wasn’t surprising, not exactly. But it struck her as notable, anyway. “His approach is, I have no doubt, valid to some degree. But I can’t see it. Not right now.” No, her emotions were too tangled, too snarled. The grief too new, its weight adding to the turmoil in her head. He couldn’t accept it, either. He couldn’t look her in the eye at the mention of his killing Obi-Wan, and he couldn’t accept it, either. She wanted so much for that to mean something.
“Would you do it now? Given the same choice... would you choose the same path?” Obi-Wan had said he wouldn’t... but she wanted to hear the words from him.