Chapter 29: Excalibur Against the Dark Side — The Confrontation That Cannot Be Won

The message arrived at the fourth hour past midnight, carried by a Senate courier whose identification bore the seal of a minor Outer Rim trade office that Bail Organa's subsidiary maps had not yet reached.

Arthur was still awake when it came. He had not been to bed.

He heard the knock at the outer door of the Temple quarters, heard the night-duty attendant's murmured exchange with whoever stood in the corridor, heard the footsteps recede. Then nothing for perhaps three minutes. Then a second knock, at his own door this time, and the attendant's voice saying that a message had arrived for Master Kenobi, marked urgent, and that Master Kenobi's rooms had not answered, and that the attendant had been told this matter concerned the boy.