Not Dead, Just Sold On

Shmi Skywalker is not really permitted to speak to free people, but she takes the risk and speaks to the boy because she is missing her son. Later, as his family asks her to help them purchase a slave to be their son's bride, Shmi reflects on her early years, the different phases of her slave life, and the miraculous birth of her son. She also remembers how he was taken away, or as the slave motto goes, 'Not dead, just sold on.'