He’d been distracted these past several days, still wounded by Qui-Gon’s failure to tell him about the Council. Even the innocent remark about having goals to aim for seemed to have stung. Qui-Gon wondered how things could’ve gotten so bad, so quickly. The probable answer: They’d been that bad for a while, but he’d failed to see it. He’d been so busy judging Obi-Wan that he hadn’t thoroughly judged himself.
