[The painting seems to fill your field of vision and the following memory plays out. It's... short. And recent. Very recent. All the images Ahsoka saw, all the feelings Ahsoka felt, they're still sharp and fresh as the day it happened.
Here's the context: you're running through the industrial pipeline system for your life. You've just escaped from prison, wrongly detained for a crime you didn't commit. But despite your protestations of innocence, nobody believes you. And the more time passes, the more evidence turns up that seems to miraculously implicate you, even though you know you didn't do it.
So escape is the only option. If you stay, you'll be found guilty, and you have no intention of going down for this. So you run. You run and you run, with Clone Troopers hot on your tail, determined to escape and find the real murderer who's framing you for this. It's clear now that's the only way you'll be able to clear your name.
But losing the Clone Troopers isn't easy. They're trained for this-- but then again, so are you. They've given you a rough chase out of the military prison so far, and though the pipeline is making it easier, you're still far from ditching them. Your heart thuds in your chest like it's going to explode, even though you're at the peak of physical fitness and could probably continue running for hours. It's the terror, though, not the exertion.
Finally, it seems like you've made some distance between yourself and the Troopers, and you run towards the light at the end of the pipeline. Only... it's not exactly an exit, you discover. It's an exit that looks out over the thousands of levels of Coruscant. You know you can jump several hundred storeys and land safely without injury through use of the Force, but thousands is pushing it. What do you do now? If you backtrack, the Troopers hot on your tail will surely find you.
Right on cue, that's when Anakin catches up with you, and the conversation in the memory plays out. Oh, your master. You want so badly to stop running. To go with him. To believe the things he's saying-- that you could turn yourself in and it would be okay. That he'd protect you, and he would prove your innocence. But you know it's not true. You trust Anakin, but you don't trust anyone else. Not any more. Someone in the Jedi Order is framing you. Someone is deliberately setting you up to take the fall.
"Anakin. You have to trust me now," you say to him, imploring him to understand. You trust him. Does he trust you? Does he really, truly trust that you're innocent?
You jump. He could easily have stopped you. ... But he doesn't.
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Here's the context: you're running through the industrial pipeline system for your life. You've just escaped from prison, wrongly detained for a crime you didn't commit. But despite your protestations of innocence, nobody believes you. And the more time passes, the more evidence turns up that seems to miraculously implicate you, even though you know you didn't do it.
So escape is the only option. If you stay, you'll be found guilty, and you have no intention of going down for this. So you run. You run and you run, with Clone Troopers hot on your tail, determined to escape and find the real murderer who's framing you for this. It's clear now that's the only way you'll be able to clear your name.
But losing the Clone Troopers isn't easy. They're trained for this-- but then again, so are you. They've given you a rough chase out of the military prison so far, and though the pipeline is making it easier, you're still far from ditching them. Your heart thuds in your chest like it's going to explode, even though you're at the peak of physical fitness and could probably continue running for hours. It's the terror, though, not the exertion.
Finally, it seems like you've made some distance between yourself and the Troopers, and you run towards the light at the end of the pipeline. Only... it's not exactly an exit, you discover. It's an exit that looks out over the thousands of levels of Coruscant. You know you can jump several hundred storeys and land safely without injury through use of the Force, but thousands is pushing it. What do you do now? If you backtrack, the Troopers hot on your tail will surely find you.
Right on cue, that's when Anakin catches up with you, and the conversation in the memory plays out. Oh, your master. You want so badly to stop running. To go with him. To believe the things he's saying-- that you could turn yourself in and it would be okay. That he'd protect you, and he would prove your innocence. But you know it's not true. You trust Anakin, but you don't trust anyone else. Not any more. Someone in the Jedi Order is framing you. Someone is deliberately setting you up to take the fall.
"Anakin. You have to trust me now," you say to him, imploring him to understand. You trust him. Does he trust you? Does he really, truly trust that you're innocent?
You jump. He could easily have stopped you. ... But he doesn't.
He trusts you.]