I love your stories! They are well-written, with flow and a great plot. Keep up the good work!

New reader here!
I've just read both "smoke and mirrors" and "the gray divide" and I loved them.
I was a bit wary at first with the whole "Sabe could have been a jedi" thing but your story builds nicely around it. Your Sabe is interesting and I'm glad she's not a perfect, super human... (I really dislike marysue-ish characters). Sometimes she seems to be a bit too clairvoyant... but I guess it can be explained by her force sensitivity and, with her being away from Coruscant, she's been less in contact with Dark Sidious influence than the jedi.
Your characterisation of Obi-wan and Anakin is great, I love how your Anakin began his pranks during TPM (I loved the whole pink underwear incident...)
I really like your exploration of Naboo dark past. I've always found a bit ironic that Palpatine became a Sith lord though he was from Naboo, which in the film seemed to be a sort of paradise...
I wonder how Rabe came to that village and to work for the Sith.
And then there's the sabewan which has been building nicely.
I hope you'll find the time to finish the story.

I would like it if you updated, I know it's a bit late but you write very nicely and at the moment I am obsessed with Star Wars.

This is a wonderfully well written fic, exploring one of my favorite pairings! I absolutely adore the plot you have going on and I can't wait until you update again! I think it's great how you made Sabe someone with depth, and didn't just treat her like a cardboard cutout.

Hope to see more soon!
-synfaerie

Things are setting into motion again with this chapter! So glad you updated, as always.

This part I especially liked - "could the Temple itself become an attachment, overshadowing the will of the Force with its own?" (Do I hear a little of Martin Luther in those sentiments?) I suppose Obiwan, who has ever thought restraint the better part of wisdom, is making some progress by acknowledging his feelings toward Sabe. But it is also true that the main way by which he engages with the world is through his Order. How much of life is defined by the attachments that he rejects, as opposed to those that he chooses? (can he choose Sabe BEFORE his order falls apart?)

And what exactly is Sabe's engagement with the force, when she could see the good as well as the dumb things that it makes people do?

Hooray! An update! And what angst! I hope your next update is soon!

Another fantastic chapter, as always. I've been following this as a lurker for a long time (read the original first), and I am SO glad you are still writing this. Sabewan is one of my favorite pairings, and the pickings throughout the web are fairly slim, so I latch onto the good ones like a hawk. I am consistently impressed by your ability to weave a story, include an element of love that is poignant and true to character while not sliding into shallow romance-novel territory and by the overall quality of your writing. Thank you for continuing this, and I hope to see another update soon.

Oh, I like this! I just sat down and read the whole thing. Your writing is great--it is so easy to see and hear this story in my head. With Chapter 9, specifically, don't worry about sliding into "Stupid." You are far, far away from Stupid. You got a lot of solid plot and characterization to hold-up any fluff and angst you decide to throw in here.

I would love to read more if you get a chance to update, but I understand what the real world is like, too. Thanks for sharing this.

Yay! I'm so happy this was finally updated! I'm a little confused about the whole plotline with A.V (I can't remember how to spell her name), but I'm glad you posted the next chapters!
Claire

Ah... Updates! Took me long enough to realise that you had done so! Fabulous updates... we're finally getting somewhere and things are starting to fit together. I loved your dealing with the raw emotions in the two chapters... Padme and the evidence, Sabe and Rabe's face-off, Sabe and Obi-Wan's argument and kiss. I really can't wait for another update, and to see how you deal with the aftermath.

BTW, I'm so glad you didn't give up the story! And I can't wait for further updates (hint, hint!)

Oh they are in trouble now (jumps up and down for joy).

First of all, I love Obi-wan's reaction to her "sith-like" (ouch) display. I was sitting here expecting a tearful make-up/out scene when Sabe wakes up but no. It's better this way. Thanks for not succumbing.

Your characterization is strong and coherent, and yet very complex . Sabe is impulsive like Anakin, but what he might do out of pride and a yet-playful instinct, she does because she feels so deeply. For her, the world has always been mostly alien, mostly strange - even a friend like Rabe could turn into a stranger - so it is the brief flashes of rapport and familiarity that we see her open, see the defensiveness give way to the true extent of her compassion. And out of that openness she can be convinced - at least temporarily - of absolutes, of what is an injustice, and what is necessary to right that wrong, and act on it.

Obi-wan (oh Obi-wan), on the other hand, is (I think) convinced that everything shifts according to view point, that nothing in the world is good or bad but thinking makes it so. He views Anakin and Sabe's idealism and "absolutes" as childish, because it could easily turn into violence, into breaking the Code, and more than anything Obi-wan wishes to remain an observer, a negotiator - and live blameless and Good. He probably shouldn't have kissed Sabe, then.

*HAHA*

Thank you for this.

And as for "Nowhere" - it's undergoing such an extensive revamping on my computer that I hardly recognize it myself. Frame narrative was added, perspective altered, characters thrown in haphazardly along with a gene-mutating disease... but it's very far from being coherent in any sense of the word.

I did a double take seeing this at the top of my favorites list again so soon :) Ah tensions tensions. This will be problematic, wont it? how they deal with the kiss. Those pesky Jedi rules *sighs*. Great chapter; I can easily forgive this chapter being shorter than the previous one (how kind of me ;) lol) given the content (the kiss!).
It's been awhile since I've read this whole story (I'll probably reread it tomorrow, as now I should probably go to sleep already) so I'm not sure if you ever mentioned before if you are taking in consideration any Extended Universe books (especially the ones about young Obi-Wan) for characterization.
Anyway, loved this chapter :)

*Sque*

*thump*

(I am not usually reduced to insensible fan-girlish noises, I swear. I don't even know what "squee" means, nor can I approximate its etymological derivations...but you updated. The excitement has just been too much, even for one with an iron constitution such as myself. I will now go and actually read the chapter - but please, by all means and ways that make things possible in the world - please continue. Cheers.)

Wow! :O An update! A very nice surprise, realy :) I'm glad you're continuing with this story. Great chapter, would have liked better if it was longer, or the next chapter was sooner (hint, hint ;) ).

Wow... it has been a while since you've updated. I hope you haven't abandoned this story - that would be such a shame. I'm too busy to read much fanfiction, but I still regard this as one of my favourite pieces.