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Obi-Wan Kenobi (master_kenobi) wrote in makebelievelog,

Anakin was right. That was exactly what the Council would tell him. The boy was behaving and doing his lessons; what Obi-Wan wanted from him in addition was superfluous and even dangerous. Sentimentality on his part.

"Good point."

Maybe that had been part of his mistake.

"So what you're saying is that I should be discouraging attachment anyway, that this is the direction I should be pulling, not fighting against it. This is a good thing, isn't it?"

It didn't feel good, but he'd been raised by the Temple and its rules. Attachment was a failing and he'd been reprimanded for it more than once. If the idea was planted in the younger Anakin that being a good Jedi meant not having them, it was seated far deeper in Obi-Wan. At his core. In his roots. Attachment: his great failing. And here he was in Anakin's workshop asking his former apprentice how to cultivate it in his new one. What was he doing?