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.

Which was when he sat up in bed with so little warning that half his blankets went spilling to the floor.

His senses had just informed him of two things at once: one, that some strange Force entity had just set foot on the island, and two, that another, vastly more familiar presence had made itself known overnight and he had completely slept through it.

He cast his sheets off the bed the rest of the way, and got dressed quickly.

[[ for one, then two. ]]

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[not-foolhardy.livejournal.com]

She followed the trajectory of his gaze and came to the wrong, if not entirely so, conclusion. (Which was his intention all along, of course.)

"Oh," Satine said, and visibly deflated. "I see."

She took a step closer to him.

[sith_happened]

Anakin chewed his lower lip and didn't try to block her way. He was trying not to be a jealous, overprotective jerk right now.

He was trying very, very hard.

[saddeserthermit]

Obi-Wan offered her his arm; it wasn't quite an instinctive gesture, but an old, familiar one none the less. "It is still good to see you," he said, "But I hope you understand I'd rather not linger on the complexities at the moment."

[not-foolhardy.livejournal.com]

Satine slid her arm through his, and gave his wrist a little squeeze.

Then she looked up at Anakin. "We were planning to have a meal," she said. "Master Skywalker could come with us."

[sith_happened]

Oh, that sounded like the worst date EVER. "I'd love to," he said. "There's some excellent coffee here that can almost count as caf."

[saddeserthermit]

Obi-Wan wouldn't frame it as a date, but if he had, he would not have been even the slightest bit surprised Anakin would jump at the chance to insert himself into it.

"I prefer to stick with the tea," Obi-Wan said. "But Anakin takes to the coffee by the gallons."

[not-foolhardy.livejournal.com]

"I will try both, and make up my own mind," Satine said firmly. "...Which way do we go?"

[sith_happened]

"Out past the pond and onto the main road," Anakin said, pointing.

[not-foolhardy.livejournal.com]

"Thank you," Satine said, with a regal little nod. "Past the pond it is, and we will see about this island of yours."

As Obi-Wan began to walk, so did she.

[sith_happened]

Anakin bit back a sarcastic "at least it's not raining fish" and trailed along.