"He's always had to defend me, even when he didn't really want me. He tried to hide it but." Being able to read people meant the difference in a severe beating and a minor one - he'd learned pretty young to study behavior and pick it apart. And Obi-Wan hadn't been the best at hiding his occasional resentment. He never took it out on Anakin, and for that Anakin had loved him and Obi-Wan had grown to treasure him. But he'd started out as little more than a piece of inheritance that wasn't valued or desired. "He's wielded really hard, fought for me, when other people, when the Council, was telling him things were wrong with me. I don't want him to." He stumbled over his wires for a minute, brain spinning faster than his mouth could manage. "I don't eat him to know they were right."