he had spoken to the last of the Jedi. They had consulted in secret, and the wizened Master Yoda had told him about Palpatine’s obsession with dark arts, his cruel joy as he’d carried out his plan. Palpatine was steeped in the mysteries of the Sith, Yoda had said—the ancient anti-Jedi cult—and surely had been his entire life. “All he has done, his manipulation of events, I will not guess,” Yoda had told Bail. “Too arrogant was I to see. Too ignorant I am to know.”
