«Rumblestilskin!» The pale face of a man said, as he bowed humbly, taking off his hat.
His hair was gray, and his teeth, were dark, with a spankle of yellowness, «I’m at your sercice!» he straigtened up.
Ahsoka stood there still, looking at him in silence.
Had she reached the end if her journey? Was this it?
«Are you the author?» she asked dreadfully, «The one I’m looking for? I want you to change my fate.»
Rumblestilskin grinned at her,
«Your fate, your fate, your fate.» he began, walking arround her, smiling scary. He stopped in front of her, holding out his hand, «Everything comes with a price, dearie. So what would you give me?»
«I… I wanna make sure that you’re the author first.» Ahsoka answered.
«Excellent!»
…
«Here he comes!» Luke and Leia said taking a quick glance at their father from their hidingplace where they stood, «Operation racoon is on!» he was heading right for them. Had he seen them?
…
«What I would give you, is…» Ahsoka hesitated, as she looked up at the ghostly man, «What do you want?»
Rumblestilskin grinned again, showing off his teeth,
«You where once a Padawan, right?»
«I still am…» she said, looking down with shame, «It’s just…»
«You don’t need to explain, dearie. I simply want your braid!»
…
«Father!» Luke began when the King had approched them, «Is everything allright with aunt Zia?» meaning Zilla, «What happened to her?»
«Everything is under controll, my prince.» Anakin said, stroking his hand over the boys head, «Don’t worry.»
«But we do worry.» Leia joined in, «We worry about you.»
«And why’s that?»
«Because… because you don’t seem happy. Is there anything we can do?»
…
«But I don’t have it anymore.» Ahsoka bursted out, «I gave it to my sister.»
«Then take it back, and give it to me.»
«But I can’t go back!» Ahsoka bursted out in tears, «I don’t wanna meet Anakin…»
«You simply have to do if you want your fate changed, dearie.»
«But you are The Author, right?»
«I never said I was The Author, I said I was The one.»
«The one what?»
«The one who knows, The Author.»
«So you only know him?»
Rumble laughed,
«Give me what I want, and I will get him for ya. Do we have a deal?»
Ahsoka looked down for a moment, uncertain. But then she quickly looked him in the eyes, saying,
«Yes.»
And Rumble laid his hands together, doing a bow with his back,
«It is settled then. Go and fullfill your destiny, and I will meet you here afterwards.» and then he simply poffed himself away in a purple smoke, leaving the Padawan standing there, alone.
…
«But you have to listen too us, father!» Luke and Leia insisted after they had talked to him after a while, «Bringing back Soka, is the only way!»
Anakin just stared into the the distance,
«You know nothing… she was the one who ran away in the first place…»
«You always tells us stories about her, daddy. And what we know from them, is that you loved her very much.»
«Enough of this!» he said in a harsh tone, «I tried to get her back once, and… I failed!»
«But she’s the key, father.»
«No.»
