Obi-Wan nodded slightly, inclining his head in an acknowledgement of the remark. It was very fair. Looking back on it, it seemed a rash decision. Right in the moment, perhaps, but certainly not in the long-term. Not for him.
That was, perhaps, why he had not told Ferus before. He hadn't wanted the boy to think that he was making the wrong decision by leaving. Clearly he had made the right one. It spoke quite a lot to their differences now, as grown men.
"No, I don't expect you would have," he agreed with a faint smile, turning back to face him now that everything was cleaned up. "But I have changed much since I was a Padawan. As have you," he added with a respectful gesture to him.
Of course, the last few months had changed Ferus even further. In the interest of not letting that heavy knowledge overtake them if it did not have to, he continued on.
"Siri had thought, at the time, that it made us all look bad. But she came to understand my decision, and to learn it had nothing to do with my commitment to the Order."
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That was, perhaps, why he had not told Ferus before. He hadn't wanted the boy to think that he was making the wrong decision by leaving. Clearly he had made the right one. It spoke quite a lot to their differences now, as grown men.
"No, I don't expect you would have," he agreed with a faint smile, turning back to face him now that everything was cleaned up. "But I have changed much since I was a Padawan. As have you," he added with a respectful gesture to him.
Of course, the last few months had changed Ferus even further. In the interest of not letting that heavy knowledge overtake them if it did not have to, he continued on.
"Siri had thought, at the time, that it made us all look bad. But she came to understand my decision, and to learn it had nothing to do with my commitment to the Order."