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1.

Some Jedi take an oath promising never to tell a lie. When Obi-Wan considered it as a young Padawan, Qui-Gon left him to it, as he did whenever Obi-Wan started something that he did not particularly care about one way or the other. He did, however, offer up one piece of commentary:

"My master took it some years ago."

Obi-Wan spent years examining that particular memory for inflections of tone, for hints that Qui-Gon had been trying to warn him.

2.

Anakin was, in certain respects, socially crippled. He was incapable of understanding implication, of grasping fine, unsaid points. Obi-Wan initially attributed it to the crudeness of Anakin's upbringing, and when that was no longer possible, to the degree to which Anakin interacted with machines. There was, he thought, a translation difficulty. Anakin produced surprisingly nuanced source code for his droids. It was graceful; it alluded to the unprocessed, and when he was an old man in the desert, Obi-Wan had a great deal of time to reflect upon his Padawan's early affinity for the mechanical.