The newly knighted Jedi, Anakin Skywalker, resolutely carried out certain instructions entrusted to him by the elders of the Jedi Council. On the very first night, he set off with Padmé, commandeering a fast ship with no legal registration and quietly slipping away from Coruscant in the dead of night without informing anyone.
No one knew when they had left.
As a Jedi who had always belonged to Coruscant and stood above all official authorities, Anakin was already intimately familiar with the planet's methods for intercepting and stopping smuggler ships. So, without using any privileges, his brazen act of official "smuggling" naturally let him evade all legal inspections and patrol ships, allowing him to leave the capital of the Galactic Republic without anyone noticing.
Perhaps Anakin really had done a good job keeping their departure secret. Perhaps Padmé no longer had a tracking device on her. Perhaps some bounty hunters had been scared witless. Of course, the most likely explanation was that the cutting-edge ship he had chosen was simply too fast for the bounty hunters to catch.
And so, on their way back to Naboo, Anakin and Padmé encountered no interception or obstruction of any kind. A few days later, they arrived in Naboo without a hitch. After meeting with Naboo's new queen and handing over some work, they once again headed to the beautiful mansion in the lake district where they had briefly stayed before, and moved in without a care in the world.
Today marked the eighth day Anakin and Padmé had spent here...
In this place of breathtaking scenery, there was no one but Anakin, Padmé, and a few servants and cooks. At last, Padmé—who had been thoroughly vexed by the Galactic Republic, the Separatist Alliance, schism, war, and the endless pursuit—could relax a little. She