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After talking to Ben, Luke had decided to go to the Jedi Temple and practice some of his lightsaber forms, working off some of the energy that had built up with a full night of sleep and a healing trance besides.  As well as to calm his mind, keep it focused; he had the sense that they were standing on the brink, watching the storm come swiftly in, and knew that he and the other Jedi would need to get together and work things out, checking in with all of them.

Focus.  Feel the Force, let it flow through you.

His green blade sliced through the air, leaving glowing trails behind, concentrating on those first teachings Obi-Wan had given to him on the Falcon, many years ago.  And gradually, Luke slipped into a sort of trance, the Force wrapping around him and supporting every simulated parry, every practiced strike.

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"Your mother was the Queen of Naboo when we met," Vader said, wrapped in his memories. "She was older than me...twenty-four, and a Senator when we were married."

"It is for the best that the war did not touch Naboo-- the Emperor was born here, and as his home planet it was kept more or less...preserved."

Vader had not been back.

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"The Emperor was from here too?" Luke rested his hands on the balustrade bordering the patio. "I didn't know that. A lot of the records about him have been scrubbed."

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"Indeed," Vader answered, "though he spoke little of it to me. He lived in Theed, the capitol city, while Padme's heart was happiest among her people...and here."

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Luke turned again to look at the woman who stood there, smiling benignly at them. He knew the sensoriums could only rely on the memories and will of the person conjuring things up. He wondered if this was how his mother had actually looked, or if it was some kind of romanticized approximation--the shining, perfect memory that Vader held up.

"Leia remembers her, a little. Just feelings mostly," Luke said. "I don't at all."

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"That is...odd," Vader said, heavily. "Odd, and...exceptionally unfortunate. It should not be so."

He was close to going off on another tangent- he had given everything for them to be together, why was it that even know they were divided by time and by loyalties?