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Yesterday had been... unpleasant. Or at least troublesome. And yes, eventually Obi-Wan would have to have that conversation with Ahsoka he'd been putting off for some time.
But that would come whenever it came - whenever Ahsoka chose to have it.
Today, Obi-Wan was meditating, the eopies wandering around him, undisturbed. His efforts to refamiliarize himself with the Living Force this past year and a half had been steady, if slow-- but it was easier now, to simply throw his consciousness into the winds and feel the life around himself.
Obi-Wan sat outside his shack, but in truth, on this island, he was everywhere, all at once, and everyone, all at once.
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But that would come whenever it came - whenever Ahsoka chose to have it.
Today, Obi-Wan was meditating, the eopies wandering around him, undisturbed. His efforts to refamiliarize himself with the Living Force this past year and a half had been steady, if slow-- but it was easier now, to simply throw his consciousness into the winds and feel the life around himself.
Obi-Wan sat outside his shack, but in truth, on this island, he was everywhere, all at once, and everyone, all at once.
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Date: 2016-06-26 01:23 pm (UTC)His own eyes slid shut. "The eopies, perhaps."
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Date: 2016-06-26 01:45 pm (UTC)There was life around them, everywhere. Trees and insects, birds, and people, farther away. Master Kenobi. And, of course, the eopies.
Starting small, Kanan let himself just feel the eopies, familiarize himself with the connections between them. The rest of the world continued on as an afterthought, huge and vibrant and overwhelming in its own right. But it was welcome to continue doing whatever it was doing. Kanan was just going to be over here with the eopies.
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Date: 2016-06-26 01:50 pm (UTC)And Caleb Dume, of course.
He stretched out a wave of quiet, comforting calm as he passed.
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Date: 2016-06-26 02:09 pm (UTC)Caleb was breathing in that comforting calm as Master Kenobi offered it, letting it soothe away the rest of his doubts and helping him pass more fully into the moment. There were eopies, two beings out of millions of living things on the island alone, as vibrant as any of the rest of the lives that were stretched out around them, and he'd never connected with eopies, before. They were captivating in their own right, each full and complete lives unto themselves, minds and personalities that were intertwined together within the Force.
Caleb Dume smiled, and much like Master Kenobi's wave of calm, he offered the eopies a greeting, gentle and inquisitive and with a sense of peace about it that he hadn't known in years.
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Date: 2016-06-26 02:14 pm (UTC)But still.
Obi-Wan brought his consciousness back to his immediate surroundings. Watching, in a sense, without interference. Pushing Dume too far would be of no use to any of them. He could scarcely remember a time he hadn't been connected to the Force in all its hugeness-- the absence of it seemed like a vast and frightening thing.
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Date: 2016-06-26 02:36 pm (UTC)The quiet had been terrifying. But if everything was quiet, nothing in particular was. Especially not the things that hurt the most.
But those were thoughts for another time. In this particular moment, Caleb was still smiling, still offering his greetings and his curiosity to the eopies, to Rooh in particular. There was something about that stubbornness that appealed to him, that was familiar to him, and he sent her a faint wave of amusement and approval, a bit of a glimpse of his own stubbornness and curiosity, which had exasperated the Masters so much - and caught Depa's attention - back home.
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Date: 2016-06-26 02:57 pm (UTC)What baffled him the most about this place, though, was how badly he wanted to stay, if he was being at all honest with himself. It wasn't home. Nothing would really be that. But there was a sense of belonging that he hadn't felt in years. It was intoxicating in its own right, and it made it difficult to want to run, even though old fears kept telling him that he had to.
He'd been told to run. And so he ran, and he left as much of himself behind as he possibly could, every time.
He paused for a moment, and then offered her a sort of comparison, that this place was strange, but there were things here that rung familiar, the same way the sand and the caves and the family might have, to her. Did she have anything like that, here? Master Kenobi, he supposed. But anything else?
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Date: 2016-06-26 03:10 pm (UTC)The food she found in her small stable every morning.
And the return, every once in an immeasurable ocean of something called time she didn't understand, where she could walk on sand again and feel the sun on her skin. She didn't miss it that much. It was nice, sometimes, to run. But to be unmoored - that was terrifying. Unsafe.
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Date: 2016-06-26 03:18 pm (UTC)He'd been alone. He wasn't quite certain what to do with a herd, these days.
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Date: 2016-06-26 04:11 pm (UTC)Obi-Wan reached out for her, offered her a gentle burst of affection in the Force.
Then he brought his consciousness further back into himself, and opened his eyes.
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Date: 2016-06-26 04:25 pm (UTC)When he'd become a scared kid separated from the herd, with nothing left to do but run.
He thanked her again, and then he started to lean back, until the line between Caleb and Kanan came back to him, and there was little left for him to do but open his eyes, furrow his brow, and process.
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Date: 2016-06-26 04:28 pm (UTC)Eventually, he got back onto his feet, and crossed the small clearing to find Rooh herself, nibbling on some fodder. He patted her gently on the neck.
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Date: 2016-06-26 04:44 pm (UTC)He licked his lips, stalling for another moment still while he groped around for words. Habit, more than anything, had brought up a lot of his barriers between himself and the Force, but there was still that little glimmer around the edges of his senses, and he was loathe to shut it out just yet.
"Just like that, huh?"
Like riding a hoverbike.
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Date: 2016-06-26 04:46 pm (UTC)Only one person had ever managed, in all of Jedi history.
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Date: 2016-06-26 04:57 pm (UTC)He lifted one hand to run through his hair - it stuttered there, caught in the middle an old habit that he'd long since replaced with the new - and wound up stroking his beard, instead.
"Now I'm not sure if I have answers to the questions I came with, or mostly just new questions," he confessed.
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Date: 2016-06-26 04:58 pm (UTC)"Either," he said, "Is a next step, isn't it?"
Sometimes he could still be way too Jedi Master for anyone's good.
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Date: 2016-06-26 05:11 pm (UTC)"I suppose it is, one way or another," he agreed.
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Date: 2016-06-26 05:14 pm (UTC)Obi-Wan strode away from the eopies, towards Kanan.
"And if it does - or does not - you are always welcome here."
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Date: 2016-06-26 05:28 pm (UTC)He would. Definitely. Be prepared, Obi-Wan. You were stuck with him, now.