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Biting His Own Tale Anthology by ADragonsFriend
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
15 Oct 2026
Summary
When Depur sends Vader back to Tatooine for the third time, Anakin visits his mother. He cannot go to her grave, but the place she died is a ruin. Surely, he can go there and talk to her. Before, there was nothing left for him to lose, but now there is Leia, just the right age to be his child, and the world he broke before she could see it.
Anakin speaks his regrets to the desert, until the wind whispers back.
He awakens, 18 years in the past, in the moment before his first evil.
Is this a piece of Ar-Amu's promise? The will of the Force? Yes, of course. But whichever you believe in, know that the trickery of Ekkreth will surely play its part.
Anthology containing:
The Children of the Mother
When Darth Sidious sends Vader back to Tatooine for the third time, Anakin Skywalker visits his mother.
Eighteen years earlier, Beru Whitesun waits for Shmi Skywalker's child to return from the desert.
Or,
Whether by Ar-Amu's promise or by the will of the Force, Anakin Skywalker finds himself in the long past.Between the Desert and the Ocean
A series of visitors, journeys, and concessions.
Or, life changing field trips, and the lack thereof.
Loss in the Arena
Geonosis eats the Jedi alive, and it spits some of them back out the same way.
Obi-Wan Kenobi grieves for what is not yet lost.
Aayla Secura grieves and loses nothing.
Elder Sisters
In the story of one sister, Ekkreth discovers an egg in the desert.
In another, Anakin begins to settle in to the past.
Here There Be Monsters
Rex’s general reminds him of nothing so much as the ocean.
Or, as it turns out, time travel is easier to hide than the marks left by spending a decade and a half as the emperor’s executioner.
Glittering Chains
On Christophsis, Asajj Ventress follows her master's orders, Obi-Wan Kenobi has a knee injury, and Sargent Slick awaits execution. None of this is precisely Anakin Skywalker's problem.
But long ago,
Ekkreth was going along, not looking for trouble, and they met a woman who had forgotten where she came from. She was called Keekta Du.
In the House of the Sun
After a disastrous attempt at finding freedom in promises of a Sith Apprentice on Christophsis, Slick has been sent to Tatooine. He comes bearing gifts.
Tales of Ryloth
Ryloth is a land of vicious predators, deep forests, and endless stone. Many paths converge there. Even Ekkreth has visited a time or two.
Three venators hang in the sky above Ryloth, a blockade in their way.
Lessu is a captured city, a Jedi comes to free it.
Two generations ago, a storyteller came to Ryloth. Her grandson has grown up free and rebelious.Jedi Wonders
Jedi Master Mace Windu goes to the Senate to follow a promise to its reasonable conclusion.
(Further than) the Eye Can See (there are Stars)
There is a body in Obi-Wan's arms and a body on a pyre.
There is a maze which cannot be mapped and a desert stretching beyond the horizon.
There is a boy carving stones and a girl holding a star in her palm.
There is Depur’s rage, and there are Ekkreth’s red red feathers.Or,
Ventress, Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka walk into a sith temple.The Supreme Chancellor's Diary
Supreme Chancellor Palpatine does not have time in his busy schedule to keep a journal. Luckily for future historians, Ekkreth has hired a ghost writer.
Senator Amidala receives a mysterious invitation.
bubble up, bubble away
CT-9166 has been guarding the old Jedi Temple on Verilli for almost three hours when he disobeys orders, and gets stuck with a head full of memories not his own.
The Form of her Heart
She is satisfied. She is happy. She is Barriss Offee, Jedi Padawan and healer. She is all of these things. In one world, she is even a loyal Commander until she spends weeks pouring out her bitterness at Letta Turmond’s easy prompting. Then, well…
But with a red feathered vigilante comes a different offer, and another choice.
This Story Can Kill You
After Ashoka is badly injured by Count Dooku, and the 501st is recalled to Coruscant for leave, Anakin has little to do but wait and worry for his student. Ekkreth's plans have ground to a halt for the moment, awaiting the next opportunity to inch the restraining bolt around the galaxy a little closer to falling off.
Over the course of two conversations, he finds it.
Darth Vader tells Count Dooku about a story.
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