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“What’s going on?”
“s**t, Holly! Don’t do that!” Jeremy looked around, but no one else was paying any attention to them.
“You’re looking mighty freaked, young Padawan.”
Great! Now he was a junior Jedi knight. But he’d watched Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. Anakin Skywalker consumed by the dark side of the Force until he’d become Darth Vader destroying friends, family, everyone who mattered, then—
“Hey! Jeremy!” Holly shook his shoulder. “Breathe, goddamn it. Breathe!”
“I don’t want to go back to the dark side.” He’d been there. Gone there voluntarily. Gleefully disregarding all consequences. Almost been ensnared and almost ruined his family.
“What?”
“The light side. I chose the light side of the Force. Years ago.” He was babbling but couldn’t stop it.
“Yeah, and the Force is p
