╳ from Padme (aggressivcnegotiations. Also, everything hurts.)
Itwasn’t even a moment, a second of thought when he threw himself tothe ground, taking her down with him, pinning her to the sand. Frack,it was a wonder that any of the combatants – Clones or Jedi - couldsee a thing in the heavy smoke and the billowing sand. The light ofthe explosions sent a lurid orange glow over the field, filtered byheavy black smoke. Hands gripping the young senator’s shoulders,Obi-Wan clambered off her, pulling her to her feet and giving her awordless push toward the far outcropping of dunes. It was either astroke of genius or the worst mistake he would make that day. The valiantefforts of the Jedi force seemed to do little to prevent the comingonslaught, blasterfire splitting the air, nothing deterring the enemy as theyswept onward in a heavy drove.
Arm around her shoulder, half-pushing, half-dragging the girl,Obi-Wan pressed her into the sand just out of sight of the maintransport vehicle. “If you’re discovered, run.” The blaster ather own belt was fully charged, but he wasn’t going to advise herinto a combat situation, no. She shouldn’t have even been her. Anakinwas a fool to have let her come. “You need to get out of here.”Lifting his head briefly, he thought he sighted the figure of hispadawan through the haze, circling on some sort of commandeeredcraft, weaving a mazy trail through the melee. “I’ll alert theothers – until then, stay down.”
And in that split-second when Obi-Wan turned back, trying to sightAnakin and the transport ship through the smoke, he heard theblastershot and saw the other Jedi it had missed recoil as part ofhis cloak was clipped. Then the shot blasted into his own flesh,burying deep into the sinew of his thigh. When he fell, again, herface bending over him was the last thing he saw before losingconsciousness.
