"No," Obi-Wan answers honestly. "I can't. But the Jedi are peacekeepers, not generals, and the war is over. Even if we'd not found ourselves here, the world we knew..."
"The prophecies were never meant to be taken literally," he says. "Qui-Gon may have believed otherwise, but it is matter he and I clashed on many times. Whatever else Anakin may or may not be, he is an individual first, and as to whether or not the Jedi would be happy with him leaving, such things no longer matter. I cannot speak for anything but the moment in which we find ourselves now. There is no Jedi Order. Not any longer."
He and Anakin are the last. Rey and Ben, he can't imagine they want to be what the Order would have expected of them anyway. Should they want to learn, Obi-Wan will be happy to teach them, but it will be an entirely different task than what it might have once been.
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He pauses and breathes in deep, then exhales slowly, centering himself. The world they knew is gone. One way or another. Either they're here in this new place or they're there, hiding from an Emperor, considered enemies of the Empire. Or worse, in Padmé's case. And in Anakin's.
"The prophecies were never meant to be taken literally," he says. "Qui-Gon may have believed otherwise, but it is matter he and I clashed on many times. Whatever else Anakin may or may not be, he is an individual first, and as to whether or not the Jedi would be happy with him leaving, such things no longer matter. I cannot speak for anything but the moment in which we find ourselves now. There is no Jedi Order. Not any longer."
He and Anakin are the last. Rey and Ben, he can't imagine they want to be what the Order would have expected of them anyway. Should they want to learn, Obi-Wan will be happy to teach them, but it will be an entirely different task than what it might have once been.