"I thought he was thirteen years old," she spoke softly, kindly, by way of pointing out that whatever solid answers Luke was looking for, concerning Anakin's eventual turn to the dark side, she probably didn't have. It was a moment of compassion, softness, before Siri's shell re-hardened and she continued, sitting up straighter and tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. "I was working undercover for a really infamous slave trader, trying to infiltrate and overthrow. Obi-Wan and Anakin ended up on the same sort of mission; they got separated, and I ended up working with your father for most of the mission." Siri wasn't sure if Luke even really knew who Obi-Wan was, but she trusted he was sharp enough to follow along anyway.
"Anakin was very young, but he was very gifted." It had started off very strange for Siri to speak of Anakin in the past tense, but the more she adjusted to the idea of his future, the easier it became to separate the two timelines altogether. "Too gifted, perhaps, because he definitely knew it. He was impatient, wanted to act just because he knew he could succeed. He had a hard time pausing to think and feel first." Siri felt herself smirking just a bit, unconsciously. "I know that had to have driven Obi-Wan crazy." She didn't need to mention that it was because they were the same traits she had at Anakin's age, that she knew just how much.
Still, although she had liked him, and understood many of his personality facets, Siri knew there was a big difference between herself and Anakin. She had compassion, yes, but he had passion, too much of it, and it guided his actions too much. She hadn't felt his intentions, but she knew Anakin had killed Krayn at the end of the mission, when really he should've been tried and imprisoned. And she had felt the tension on the ship back to Coruscant. "Anakin made him uneasy, though. I could feel that, probably more than anyone," she admitted, looking over at Luke intently, free from her recalling memories now. "Obi-Wan - and the Council, too, as far as I heard - thought he was too old, too reckless to begin training. Had experienced too much outside of the Order already. And... maybe they were all right."