All he can think in that moment is that he is not going to watch this play out again. That he has seen this scene with everyone he has ever loved, and that it is always Maul on the other end of that red saber and he is not doing it again.
Except, in the end, that is exactly what happens.
He can't get in, easily, not in time and not with the speed this is happening. He watches that red blade sink into Anakin with a kind of ... numb inevitability and what seems like slow motion all the way through Anakin falling.
That same cool, calm, detatchment carries him through his brief, furious fight with Maul. Plenty of force use, no negative emotion just the sense that he is... playing out a part that must be played, and watching himself do so from a distance.
That breaks the moment his blade slices through Maul's neck (he has learned a thing or two). He deactivates his saber and runs for Anakin before Maul's head hits the ground, slides under him and gets his hands - both of them - on Anakin, immediately. One behind his neck, the other on the side of his face.
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Except, in the end, that is exactly what happens.
He can't get in, easily, not in time and not with the speed this is happening. He watches that red blade sink into Anakin with a kind of ... numb inevitability and what seems like slow motion all the way through Anakin falling.
That same cool, calm, detatchment carries him through his brief, furious fight with Maul. Plenty of force use, no negative emotion just the sense that he is... playing out a part that must be played, and watching himself do so from a distance.
That breaks the moment his blade slices through Maul's neck (he has learned a thing or two). He deactivates his saber and runs for Anakin before Maul's head hits the ground, slides under him and gets his hands - both of them - on Anakin, immediately. One behind his neck, the other on the side of his face.