Wellspring Arms, Monday

[thedadalorian]

There was a strange orange vegetable in the window of the shop that Din sure as heck hadn't put there.

Plus side was that the kid was now using it as a canvass to paint on. Probably Sabine's lingering influence on the place. But it was a good distraction.

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[stykera]

Stark was full-on panicking at this point. Faye had vanished. With his phone. Her ship wasn't in the junkyard.

She wasn't going to be at her job, obviously, not if her ship was gone, but maybe Din knew something. Maybe. Asking wouldn't hurt. Probably.

"Have you seen Faye?" He asked after bursting through the door.

[thedadalorian]

"...no." Not unless she was hiding in the pillow room for napping. Aka: the meditation room. "Something wrong?"

[stykera]

Everything was wrong!

"She left and I don't know where she went and her ship is gone and she left a note but I need to find her," Stark said, everything coming out in a rush.

[thedadalorian]

"What does the note say?" Din asked, being the reasonable one here. Because it was his thing. Also kudos to parsing that out of Stark's panicked rush.

[stykera]

"That she left!"

It was all very dramatic, Din.

"But not where she was going and not why."

He would not be taking questions on why at this time, thank you.

[thedadalorian]

But questions might help!

Din took a deep breath because he knew where this was going as the person who did his best to not get dragged into the main storyline, but it always happened anyway. "Do you want help finding her?"

[stykera]

Questions might lead to Stark having to explain, in front of the baby why he had been tired enough to sleep through her sneaking out!

"... yes?" Of course he did, he just hadn't expected an offer.

"But I don't know how. Or where. She might have gone back but I don't know and I haven't got a ship and she took my phone."

Which was just rude, Faye. Honestly.

[thedadalorian]

Yeah, violence was better for the kid than sex talk. So, that was smart.

"Gone back to her... universe?" Din asked awkwardly.

[stykera]

Sex talks were your job, Din. You're the dad.

"I don't know! But I don't know where else she'd go if she didn't go back but I don't where she'd go back to if she did go back."

[thedadalorian]

Din looked down at the kid where he'd wandered over to give Stark a reassuring pat on the leg. "Okay, let's get going then."

Lucky for him, Din was good at tracking people down in space.

[stykera]

Grogu got a smile from Stark because it was impossible not to smile at Grogu.

Din got more of a confused look because he was being so helpful and Stark wasn't sure why.

"But... really? I...I thought I'd have to find a way to go on my own. I just wondered if you'd seen her and..." He wasn't sure what else to say.

[thedadalorian]

"I have a ship," Din reminded him. "And I can help."

Which was, apparently, reason enough for him when someone looked this worried.

"She's my employee, right?" he joked kinda. Like it would help him accept the help. Then admitted, "She's a friend."

[stykera]

"She's..." Well, Stark wasn't sure where they stood this morning, was he?

"Thank you. Are you... are you sure?"

[sith_happened]

Anakin was not afraid of anything, especially not dead Jedi Masters. He was just...concerned there might be follow-up if he didn't check on the youngling occassionally.

"Hello," he said, coming in.

[thedadalorian]

Suuuuure.

Grogu looked up from where he was painting what might have been a Wookie onto that pumpkin. "Hello," Din said from his spot behind the counter, carefully relaxing any knee-jerk concern over someone showing up in the shop.

[sith_happened]

"Isn't it early to paint those?" Anakin asked, tilting his head at the...Ewok? Jawa? Brown blob? on the pumpkin. "They'll rot before November."

[thedadalorian]

Brown blob, really.

"It just appeared in the window," Din admitted. "Is this one of those Halloween things?"

All he knew about the holiday was from Stark and Wanda, sooo...

[sith_happened]

Oh, he would get the expertise of a guy who'd lived on this planet 15 years and had paid...vague attention to how holidays worked!

"It is," Anakin confirmed. "People decorate with vegetables to prove how many of them they have. Also these taste bad, so they grow them uselessly to demonstrate how much extra land they have."

Sort of...

[thedadalorian]

"And sometimes people turn into the outfits they put on." STARK HAD WORRIED HIM A LOT WITH THAT ONE.

[sith_happened]

"They do," Anakin confirmed, nodding. "And sometimes they make you go in corn mazes and leave you there until you agree they're fun."

That was just Rory.

[thedadalorian]

"...No." Just no. He wasn't doing this holiday anymore.

[sith_happened]

"I haven't mentioned the haunted houses yet," Anakin added unhelpfully.

[thedadalorian]

Anakin, why?

"Like that little Jedi that hit you with a cane?"

[sith_happened]

"No, not like that," Anakin said, making a face. "Fake haunted."

[thedadalorian]

"Oh, it's fake?" That wasn't too bad then.