Hermit Shack in the Unexplored Wooded Area, Saturday Morning

[saddeserthermit]

After finding that stone last week, Obi-Wan had slept fitfully and well. Some days, perhaps, even too well. He had turned in shortly before sunset yesterday, struck by a sudden wave of exhaustion, and he had slept until the sun rose again the next morning

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[not_foolhardy]

There was a polite (but in no way diffident) rap at the door.

[saddeserthermit]

And lo, there was a polite opening of that door-- and a far less polite baffled expression.

Perhaps not so much baffled, in fact, as a mixture of it and disbelief and something a little bit like old heartbreak.

"--Satine?"

[not_foolhardy]

Satine's lips curved up in a slightly shy smile. "Hello again."

[saddeserthermit]

Unconsciously, Obi-Wan reached up and brushed his hair back. "Hello," he echoed.

He was quiet for about a second too long, and then said, "I apologize, I seem to have forgotten my manners. Would you like to come in?"

... and tell him what on Malachor was happening right now. Was this what it had been like for Anakin?

[sith_happened]

The hair on the back of Anakin's neck had stood up from the moment he stepped on the island. He double-checked to make sure his lightsaber was securely fastened to his hip and that his coffee was piping hot (Rory's weapon of choice was good in a pinch) before heading towards Obi-Wan's place.

Picking up two life signs, both familiar, didn't ease his bad feeling at all. One of them was supposed to be dead, and didn't even have "used to be a Jedi" as an excuse.

"Obi-Wan?" he called out when he was in shouting distance of the shack.

[saddeserthermit]

"Pardon me," Obi-Wan told his guest, and rose out of his seat, "I have a former Padawan to contend with."

He slipped out the door and shut it gently behind him. "Anakin. It's all right."

[sith_happened]

"How is this possibly all right?" Anakin replied.

[saddeserthermit]

It wasn't, really, on the global, emotional scale, but Obi-Wan was nothing if not good at keeping that under wraps.

"Apparently something on the island has interfered for the weekend," he said, pulling his cloak a little further around him. "It has brought the former Duchess of Mandalore here."

But Anakin had likely already figured that out.