Step Nineteen: Begin a marriage. Begin a lie. Begin a fire that will consume the galaxy.
Step Twenty: Be given a child in the middle of a warzone. She is a test. You cannot love her. You can’t not love her.
Step Twenty-One: Be given men to lead and a battle to fight. Be the best warrior. The best murderer. Even when you try to heal you harm and when you try to harm you are devastation.
Step Twenty-Two: Care about your men and your apprentice. Send them to their deaths anyways.
Step Twenty-Three: Kill an unarmed prisoner at the most powerful man in the galaxy’s bidding. Feel terrible. Feel right. Tell no one what you did.
Step Twenty-Four: Save the most powerful man in the galaxy with your master/teacher/father on your back. Bring them both out alive (you will still kill them both in the end)
Step Twenty-Five: Find out that your wife, your secret wife, your angel, is pregnant. You do not know what you will do. Slavery follows the mother and your children will call no being master. Who will you tell? How can you?
Step Twenty-Six: Save the most powerful man in the galaxy, the man you trust to never turn on you (only turn you), the man who has shown you the most (un)kindness. Be denied recognition for your good deeds. Object and be silenced and told to spy on the most powerful man in the galaxy. To commit treason. Who do you trust? How could you?
Step Twenty-Seven: Apologize to your master/teacher/father. He forgives you and tells you you are worthy and that he will fix it. He is always fixing your mistakes. (he is unable to fix the biggest one)
Step Twenty-Eighth: Dream terrible dreams. Dream dreams terrible enough to shatter you. Tell of these dreams to the leader of the Jedi, a being of utmost wisdom. Be told to let go (you have been told this before. you know how this ends).
Step Twenty-Nine: Give all of yourself to the war, to the Jedi, to the Chancellor, to your wife. Something must give. Something will.
Step Thirty: Your wife, your secret wife, your angel, the mother of your freeborn child, tells you she thinks everything you have given is for nothing. She speaks like the enemy in a voice that sounds like love.
Step Thirty-One: Become desperate to save your wife. Find out that the most powerful man in the galaxy, the man you trust the most, is a Sith. Have him reveal this to you. He is the only one who can save your wife. (you do not know that he is the reason she is in danger)
Step Thirty-Two: Expose your most trusted friend, the most powerful man in the galaxy. Reveal his secrets while concealing your own. You do not know who you want to win the fight. You join it anyway.
Step Thirty-Three: Watch one of your leaders, who has never trusted you, attempt to murder an unarmed prisoner, the most powerful man in the galaxy, your friend. Watch him almost fail the same test you failed (did you actually fail then?). Kill him before he can. Kill one man to save the life of your wife, your secret wife, your angel, the mother of your freeborn child. Kill all other possible futures. You can never turn back now.
Step Thirty-Four: The Jedi have proven to be duplicitous. They wanted you to spy and now they are committing high treason. The Jedi are not to be trusted (the Jedi have never trusted you). You are ordered to cleanse the temple. Weep as you do what is right (what is a wrong so unutterable).
Step Thirty-Five: Kill the Separatists. End the war (the war was false and the war will never end). End everything of your own life. All is lost and gone. Your wife, your old master, command of your own body (your wife was a secret and turned against you by your old master who chopped off all your limbs and left you to die).
Step Thirty-Six: Be told that you murdered your wife. The hands that have done so have been hewn from your body already (the only favor your false master did you). Your wife is buried with your paltry token and your child, the first and last gifts you gave her. Be unable to weep.
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