The answer isn't at all what Obi-Wan is expecting, and it does take a little of the wind out of his sails - but it also bring up more questions. "Jedi Praxeum?" He's familiar with the word, but all the Praxeums were destroyed during Order 66, he'd checked after he'd found the younglings' bodies.
"I'll go look for your lightsaber," he tells Jacen, "but I suggest you hide it, and not speak of it with anyone else. Don't tell them you're a Jedi, don't even use the Force around others, unless you're certain you can sufficiently cloud their mind. The Empire hasn't made its presence known this far in the Outer Rim just yet, but I'm sure they will soon enough."
It was still unclear if Palpatine would leave Tatooine alone, so as not to unhinge the already unstable Darth Vader, or if he would use Tatooine as an example to the other Outer Rim worlds. Obi-Wan hoped there was still enough of a glimmer of Anakin inside the Sith that he would continue to want nothing to do with the backwater planet.
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"I'll go look for your lightsaber," he tells Jacen, "but I suggest you hide it, and not speak of it with anyone else. Don't tell them you're a Jedi, don't even use the Force around others, unless you're certain you can sufficiently cloud their mind. The Empire hasn't made its presence known this far in the Outer Rim just yet, but I'm sure they will soon enough."
It was still unclear if Palpatine would leave Tatooine alone, so as not to unhinge the already unstable Darth Vader, or if he would use Tatooine as an example to the other Outer Rim worlds. Obi-Wan hoped there was still enough of a glimmer of Anakin inside the Sith that he would continue to want nothing to do with the backwater planet.