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Palpatine gave him that wise, kindly-uncle smile Anakin had been seeing since the age of nine. "For what?"
"You're a Sith Lord!"
"I am." he said simply. "I am also your friend.
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Underlings should always be uncomfortable in the presence of their superiors," said the Emperor. "Don't you agree?
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He could feel the end of the battle approaching, and so could the blur of the Sith he faced in the Force, the shadow had become a pulsar of fear.
Easily, almost effortlessly, he turned the shadow's fear into a weapon: he angled the battle to bring them both out onto the window ledge.
Out in the wind. Out with the lightning. Out on a rain-slicked ledge above a half kilometer drop.
Out where the shadow's fear's fear made it hesitate.
Out where the shadow's fear turned some of it's Force-powered speed into a Force-powered grip on the slippery permacrete.
Out where Mace could flick his blade in one precise arc and slash the shadow's lightsaber in half.
One piece flipped back in through the cut open window. The other tumbled from opening fingers, bounced on the ledge, and fell through the rain towards the distant alleys below.
Now the shadow was only Palpatine: old and shrunken, thinning hair bleached white by time and care, face lined with exhaustion.
'For all your power, my lord,you are no Jedi. All you are, my lord,' Mace said evenly, staring past his blade, 'is under arrest.
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In the throne room, he had tried to puzzle out which among the Emperor's cabal of advisers, human or otherwise, were aware that Palpatine was a Sith Lord who had manipulated the entire war and eradicated his sworn enemies, the Jedi, as part of a plan to assume absolute power over the galaxy.
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The Emperor works in ways a glorified trinket merchant like you could never understand.
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The past is a ghost that haunts us. Ghosts must banished. Lingering on the past is weakness, Lord Vader.
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Palpatine stared at the floor, then genuflected, uttering, βIt is my will to join my destiny forever with the Order of the Sith Lords.β Plagueis extended his left hand to touch him on the crown of the head. βThen it is done. From this day forward, the truth of you, now and forever more, will be Sidious.
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You of all people know better than to dwell on what could have been.
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With Sidious, nothing is ever as it seems. We must be this way, as well.
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Get help!β Palpatine said urgently from behind them. βYouβre no match for him. Heβs a Sith Lord.β And where do you think we can get help from, Chancellor? Obi-Wan gave Palpatine a reassuring smile. βOur specialty is Sith Lords, Chancellor.
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Patricia C. Wrede (Star Wars: Prequel Trilogy: Collecting The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith (Disney Junior Novel (eBook)))
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Palpatine smiled and gestured. Anakin knelt before him, and the words cameβthe words he had used to pledge to the Jedi, but changed, as he had changed. βI pledge myself to your care,β he said. βTo the ways of the Sith.β βAnakin Skywalker, you are one with the Order of the Sith Lords,β Palpatine replied. βHenceforth, you shall be known asβ¦Darth Vader.β βThank you, my Master.
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Chancellor Palpatine, whose Sith name was Darth Sidious, looked calmly at the angry young Jedi with the glowing lightsaber. This was the point toward which all his plots and plans had been heading for many years. βYes, I am a Sith Lord,β he told Anakin.
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Patricia C. Wrede (Star Wars: Prequel Trilogy: Collecting The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith (Disney Junior Novel (eBook)))