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[Padmé has listened to every word the moogles have told her, and it's long after they've left that she finally turns to the oddly-shaped communicator. She's wounded, but she turned down the creatures' offers of help. Whatever pain these wounds might cause her hasn't registered to her; a very large part of her is numb.

She knows the dangers of making a public call for help; if the bounty hunter that's after her made it here as well, she's little more than a sitting target for him without Anakin. But if she doesn't do something, her fears will never be put to rest--or confirmed.

So when she turns on the communicator, she's wearing a grim expression.]

I am Padmé Amidala, a Senator representing the thirty-sixth regional state space of the Galactic Senate. The planet I was on-- [she pauses for hardly a beat, but she can't bring herself to say its name;] --met with misfortune. Though it seems this isn't uncommon, it's imperative that I'm contacted by any Jedi that might have survived.

[She won't name Anakin by name; she can't even attempt it.]

If there are any others that can hear me... Please, tell me what I can do to return that world, and any others in the galaxy. I'd do anything to help them.

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Yes, you have named me truly. These worlds though do seem to operate under different rules than those that we are used to I've noticed.

[Which may very well account for the reason you look older and are now a Senator instead of the Queen you were when he was forced here.]

[Normally she would do her thinking off camera, but she trusted Qui-Gon; he had helped her free her people, after all, even at the cost of his life.]

Is-- [She stops and furrows her brow again, thinking about exactly what to say. She almost doesn't want to ask him because of how strange it would be if he said yes, but she knows she needs to do so.]

Do you have Anakin with you?

[There's a small fleeting bit of pain at which graces his eyes for a moment as the question reminds him of the boy still lost within the Darkness. He can only hope he eventually finds himself here in time.]

No. Unfortunately, I arrived alone; though I have found that my Padawan, made it here safely before me. So there may still be hope for Anakin to show up here.

[She drops her own gaze to the ground and nods.]

I see. I was with Anakin, on Tatooine, before the attack... But he's no boy anymore.

I see. It would seem that what I've heard about 'Time and Space' having no meaning here is true.

[A small pause as he considered his next words.]

Before I arrived here I was with you and others as you and they worked to take back Naboo from the Viceroy.

[She knows she should act surprised, but it would have had to have been around then. Any later...]

You were right to bring Anakin that day. He destroyed the ship that controlled the droids on Naboo--he saved us all. He's very talented.

[Now that is some good news, he gives her something of an amused smile as he hears it.]

He is. Though I am curious now as to how he managed to pull such a thing off.

You told him to remain where he hid--the cockpit of a ship. He's always enjoyed twisting the meaning of words.

[Such as his speech about compassion and love.]

Even in the future.

[She misses him... It's likely impossible not to see it.]

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