Rey's warehouse- Friday afternoon

[thatwaslucky]

After the past few weeks, it actually felt a little boring to not have something weird happen today. Even the woodchucks seemed to be somewhere else, so it was a quiet afternoon in the warehouse, with Rey doing a run through the obstacle course that she knew could have been better, and then deciding to blindfold herself to try it again in case that helped.

It at least felt better, even if it had to look really strange to anyone who didn't know what she was doing.

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[defenderofdesmoines]

Annie watched from the doorway for a moment before offering (at a time when it didn't seem like Rey would break her neck or anything if she was surprised!), "You can run it blindfolded?"

Jealous? Definitely.

[thatwaslucky]

"Force thing," she said, getting to a point where she knew she could safely stop and pull up the blindfold, which was closer to the edge of one of those jumps than most people would be comfortable with. "Hi."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Hi," Annie greeted her, wandering over a bit closer (and taking note of how close Rey was to that edge, yikes.) "Okay, that blindfold thing is actually really good to know. You can do the whole space monk thing without your eyes?"

She was sort of compiling a list of people who could do their thing with their eyes shut. Barry had only made the one set of glasses!

[thatwaslucky]

"I can sense what's around me, so I'm trying to work on that rather than seeing what's ahead and thinking too much," she explained, looking down towards the quicksand.

[defenderofdesmoines]

Yeah, Annie was still really curious about that quicksand, mostly because she'd never actually expected to see quicksand outside of a movie. "That," she decided, "is incredibly useful, in like a thousand ways. Does it just come naturally or do you have to, like, tap into it?"

And also, seriously, the course looked hard enough with eyes open that she was pretty clearly impressed at just the idea of doing it with one's eyes shut.

[thatwaslucky]

"Yes? Both?" Rey said, hopping down from where she was rather than calling from there. Which was not her showing off as much as just being a thing she did like, every week. "It's always there, sort of, and sometimes I have to look for it. Other times you just... trust it and go."

[defenderofdesmoines]

Annie gave a low whistle as Rey hopped down - intentionally showing off or not, she was going to give props where due! "So, like, I bet it's hard to sneak up on you, if you can sense people."

Not that she'd been trying, but now she knew not to try to throw Rey a surprise party or anything.

[thatwaslucky]

"People manage," Rey said with a little smile. "It's not something I think about all the time."

Because sometimes surprise was funnier.

"What's up?"

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Came to visit," Annie declared. "Though now that I'm here, I kinda want to give that," she nodded to the course, "a try."

Because she was a little arrogant about her own abilities.

[thatwaslucky]

"It's tough," Rey warned, because she always got a little nervous when someone wanted to do it. "The jumps are specifically designed so a normal human can't do it."

Thus, quicksand.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Good thing I'm not a normal human, then," Annie said with a little smile. Not that she could super-jump, specifically, but she was super-strong and in really good shape, even superpowers aside - with a running start, she was pretty sure she had a good shot at making it.

(She was wrong, but you know, that confidence had to count for something.)

[thatwaslucky]

Rey glanced at the course, deciding that she could probably stop anything really dangerous from happening.

"You can try it," she said, still sounding a bit like she was warning her. Because Rey herself hadn't been able to complete the course without using the Force.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"It'll be fun!" Annie told her, hopping eagerly from one foot to the other and stretching a little as she eyed the course. And with a couple little breaths to prepare herself, she was running up the ramp.

And really, she did okay for a minute. She was pretty fast, and had the upper body strength needed to swing herself across the areas where that was necessary, and that rickety bridge didn't scare her at all after having to navigate rusty scaffolding a time or two.

What she did not have, however, was the ability to leap like a Jedi. So while Annie really gave it a good try, and did jump further than an average person would...she did end up falling.

Right into the quicksand. Which, really was probably for the best, since it gave her a nice, squishy landing.

[sith_happened]

Anakin showed up like Nevada, late and annoying came in with pumpkin spice lattes. "Rey?"

[thatwaslucky]

She called a "Here!" but it might've been drowned out by the sound of the rickety bridge she was crossing.

Which in itself should tell him when she was.

[sith_happened]

Anakin helpfully shook the bridge with the Force because he was a teacher like that.

[thatwaslucky]

Rey was actually tuned in to what was going on around her enough that she managed to correct her footing on the first step after the bridge started shaking to keep going, calling, "Not funny!"

It was.

[sith_happened]

"It's a little funny!" Anakin called back.

[thatwaslucky]

"Sure!" she said, continuing on till she felt she was at a good stopping point to hop down. "That time went better."

[sith_happened]

"Good," Anakin said, smiling. "But not too comfortable, right? I'm not sure I can redesign this place just yet."

[thatwaslucky]

"Definitely not comfortable," Rey assured him. "I about went down on the bridge the first time I ran it. I just wanted to see how much better I could do when I wasn't thinking about it."

[sith_happened]

"And what did you learn?" Anakin asked, drinking his coffee.

[thatwaslucky]

"That it works better if I stop thinking about it." It was going to be a theme today. "Which I know."

She just had to get out of the habit.

[sith_happened]

Anakin grinned. "Come on down and get your coffee before it gets cold."

[thatwaslucky]

She made the jump down- seriously she was starting to like doing that- and came over. "Thank you. What's the occasion?"