Title: Lessons Never Learned

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Warnings: Dudes. Do not read this if you love Jedi Apprentice Qui-Gon. It’s not explicitly mean, not like Catch the Lightening, but it’s not nice.

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The Force is subtle. The Force is calm. The Force is the quiet background hum of a Jedi’s life.

So when the Force practically screams LEFT at a young knight who’s never had a particularly strong connection to premonition before, he listens, turning left instead of right.

That’s the long way around, looping around the harbor district, and he almost second guesses himself and turns around – time is of the essence, dripping through his fingers like water as he races to stop the attack on the Prime Minister. But he is a Jedi. The Force is his life, and he can’t ignore that shout, grating against his senses, demanding to be heard.

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