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[prophesiedone]

[Meditation is essential to communing with the Force, no matter how chaotic and crippled it feels in the cave. He is sitting in a ruin of a building, perched on what used to be a wall, legs crossed.]

We are all protected here. More than you think. [Against futures they do not want to face.] My visions haven't changed. It might be impossible to rectify anything.

[How cruel to stand on the precipice, see the monsters within and have no weapon; no defense.

"Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you."]

I think it's time I bite the bullet and accept -

[Oh boy. He chuckles shakily.]

It was a nice dream.

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[so_dark_a_road]

The dream of what, Anakin? -- that you could change your destiny?

Maybe we can never do that. But we can change ourselves.

[prophesiedone]

What's the point of even doing that? We probably won't even remember how we changed. [He's Mr. Pessimistic right now. Sorry, Curufin.]

[so_dark_a_road]

[ No stranger to pessimism! And still, he speaks for hope. ]

It only occurred to me in the last hour of my life that I could change my own destiny. I foreswore the Oath that ruined my family and a lot of other people, but I was dying. I couldn't save anyone. Still. . . it made a difference to me. I'm not sure I believe that people actually return to their original worlds, but if we do, I am changed forever.

Even if the multiverse tries to return me to my own world without my present knowledge. . . well, I do not believe that the soul gives up memory so easily! But those are my feelings about it.

Anakin, I do not know you well, but when I met you, I had a strong impression of a great soul. Full of power and awareness, apt to both the Light and the Darkness. But also, yours is a questing spirit, one that is constantly seeking for something more than seems to be offered by life. Such spirits contend with the universe and eventually find their own compasses. Discouragement, failure, and even death are merely stations on the journey. And so I say to you, my friend, keep seeking.