Similar Minds (Prompt 1: Fire)

Obi-Wan muses about Ahsoka Tano and Anakin.
(Yoda once mused once about Obi-Wan and Anakin.)

The girl had low inhibitions, and her bright Force presence exploded over and over like fireworks, giving him a headache. Her enthusiasm was difficult to handle.

She was untrained, unprofessional, full of raw things, full of unrefined abilities and undecided motives. Reminded him strongly of his former padawan, who was now in charge of this girl. That thought worried him.

Why would you guard flames with fire? Surely that was not wise?

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He did not want to let one boy train the other. He was such a promise to the Order and such a brash, young kid, after such a horrible loss.

Maybe it was a mistake to allow Jinn to teach Kenobi. Dooko had been interested as well at the time, and that would have meant discipline. Being trained by Qui-gonn just meant vivid pain, it seemed.

(There was no pain.) There was, however a deep, slow sigh.

Yes, Kenobi was more calculated perhaps than his master had been, but he was explosive too. Like Jinn. Like this young Skywalker.

Nonsense, it was. Guard fire with flames, I would surely not.

Vocation (Promt 21: Stealing)

Vokara Che later became a famed Chief Healer of the Jedi Temple. Here she is a young padawan, experiencing the turbulence of uncontrolled emotions for the first time.

From here, she could see everything that happened down below. Under the clear glass ceiling of the Galactic Mall of Corusant, the mass of people bustled on about chatting, laughing, arguing, fighting...
She watched this distant version of life, enraptured by it, and everything that happened here, she absorbed.

The thoughts, the love, the lust… all those things that swirled, unguarded in the Force, they filled her now, fueled her. Her own Force presence brightened by the minute, until her disguise failed, without her even noticing it.

’Che.’

’I am sorry, master.’

Mace Windu furrowed his brows.

’You haven’t done anything wrong, child.’

’They… They fill me up, Master. I know they shouldn’t, but… These things… these emotions, they empower me.’ She was raised in the Temple since she was but a baby. She barely had a name for the things she experienced now.

’Do you… feel them?’

’I don’t,’ she said dutifully, with barely perceptible regret. Love must be lovely to feel.

’Became a healer then,’ he told her with a faint smile. ’All these creatures, they give away emotions freely, you know. To them, feeling is not something they intend to control or discipline. The Force bids you to hear them. That is not a sin.’

She knew that, so she nodded.

There was no sense in trying to explain to him, that it still felt like theft.