[ To protect her? Protect her from what? The situation hadn't been nearly that serious surrounding the vote on the Military Creation Act, and that was the only matter that would pull her back to Coruscant for quite some time. And that's to say that he's right about her future, that she acknowledges and accepts it - which, as the thought crosses her mind, she realizes she doesn't.

Stopping immediately at that thought, she turns with a stern expression to address him directly. ] You say that as is my future is set is stone and must be as you say, but I don't accept that. My future is my own, Anakin, and not the plaything of the Force or whoever brought us here. Do you understand me?