Ethics, Tuesday, April 14, 2015

[sith_happened]

"Last weekend saw you with an influx of potential children from your futures," Obi-Wan said. "I am led to believe this is not an unusual occurrence..."

Anakin shook his head. "It happens annually, or near enough. Some of those children are more likely than others. Some are practically impossible."

Sorry, Tebb.

"Whereas others might be almost unavoidable," Obi-Wan said wryly. He had had none, which suited him fine. Minding Anakin's children from a distance was enough for him. "Normally, prophecy does not take such... practical forms. But regardless of what form they take, notions of what the future might be are often vague, and easy to misinterpret. It is such ideas about the future we would like to speak of today."

"Precisely," Anakin said. "And prophecies are notoriously unhelpful and stupid about such things."

Not that he was suuuuper bitter or anything.

Obi-Wan began to pace around the room. "So now that you have met these children and seen these futures, my question is: would you work towards them? Work away from them? Do you believe it is even possible to do such a thing? And if you had no children, do you believe that says anything about your future?"

Comments

Re: Listen to the lecture

[pasunereveuse.livejournal.com]

Celia wasn't trying to nap, but she was also reluctant to answer the question for a few reasons. First, and most importantly -- the theoretical father of her theoretical child (children, since she'd said she had siblings) shared this class, and the question of whether Elizabeth ought to be something to be hoped for was a matter better left for private conversation.

But there was another reason she was quiet. Celia had woken this morning from a vivid dream about her mother -- which was odd mostly because she couldn't remember the last time she had.

And now, as she sat in class with her chin cradled in her hand, she found her thoughts drifting to her mother again, stubbornly refusing to focus into anything more productive -- rather, she was finding that if she really thought about her, she could picture her face. Celia hadn't been able to do that for years, now.

Re: Listen to the lecture

[not-called-icky.livejournal.com]

Ichabod chose to be equally quiet on the matter. He glanced at Celia during the lecture, trying to guess what was on her mind, and, noting that she looked thoughtful, considered whether it would be a matter to discuss later.