Apr 3, 2024
"As a kid, he had been so impressed over his lack of reaction to the broken hand during that duel, but now, Padawan Rael knew better. One needed to feel things to have reactions to them, and Dooku didn’t feel anything. And okay, sure, Jedi were supposed to be in charge of their emotions, but Rael had started to suspect Dooku just didn’t have any. Unless you counted wanting to win at everything.
Maybe that was the reason he had even taken him as Padawan in the first place: as a challenge.
After all, you didn’t have to know Dooku very long to see that he loved trying to do impossible things."
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