Anakin actually laughs at the comment because it's so entirely absurd. Yoda, training an entire adult to be a Jedi? It's hard to believe. Maybe it's an any port in a storm thing, though. Anakin knows the Jedi were destroyed, more or less. Obviously some of them survived, but very, very few. Yoda had been against training Anakin at age nine. So what is it about Luke? He's not jealous about this, just...confused. There's some missing pieces in his understanding of the future and it grates on him.
"Ben?" he asks. He knows Obi-Wan as Obi-Wan, of course. An alias. To...hide from Palpatine? Maybe? And Yoda being on Dagobah...maybe that's the same thing.
It never occurs to him that they're also hiding from him. He's still under the impression that he dies fighting Obi-Wan. It's...not entirely false, maybe, but it's also not the whole picture.
"He's close to 40," Anakin answers. He thinks that's correct; he's not entirely sure, since he doesn't know the exact time difference between them. It's close enough. Obi-Wan isn't significantly older to Anakin's eyes and senses, but he hasn't outright asked either. It's not something he thinks about. He hasn't pinned down exactly when Luke is from, but that doesn't bother him too much. But Obi-Wan lives to be old enough that the other Jedi asks the question.
Hopefully no one ever tells either Obi-Wan or Anakin about Obi-Wan's actual fate. For now, Anakin is glad to know that Obi-Wan survives. At least one of them does.
"Was it Obi-Wan who started your training, then?" he asks. He figures it must be. Even if other Jedi survived, how many of them were close enough to Yoda to reveal his hiding place? Surely not many.
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"Ben?" he asks. He knows Obi-Wan as Obi-Wan, of course. An alias. To...hide from Palpatine? Maybe? And Yoda being on Dagobah...maybe that's the same thing.
It never occurs to him that they're also hiding from him. He's still under the impression that he dies fighting Obi-Wan. It's...not entirely false, maybe, but it's also not the whole picture.
"He's close to 40," Anakin answers. He thinks that's correct; he's not entirely sure, since he doesn't know the exact time difference between them. It's close enough. Obi-Wan isn't significantly older to Anakin's eyes and senses, but he hasn't outright asked either. It's not something he thinks about. He hasn't pinned down exactly when Luke is from, but that doesn't bother him too much. But Obi-Wan lives to be old enough that the other Jedi asks the question.
Hopefully no one ever tells either Obi-Wan or Anakin about Obi-Wan's actual fate. For now, Anakin is glad to know that Obi-Wan survives. At least one of them does.
"Was it Obi-Wan who started your training, then?" he asks. He figures it must be. Even if other Jedi survived, how many of them were close enough to Yoda to reveal his hiding place? Surely not many.