Rey's warehouse- Friday afternoon

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The woodchucks had been quiet and normal lately (as much as warehouse-dwelling rodents could be), but when Rey got to the warehouse today, she found a few stacked on top of each other, trying to get into the snack locker.

They looked at Rey.

She looked at them.

The top woodchuck quietly dropped down to the floor.

"You could just ask," Rey said, and it was a sign of how things were going here that she didn't wonder how they would do that.

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"Do I want to know?" Anakin asked as he came in.

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"I interrupted a snack raid," she answered, whether he did want to know or not.

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"Better Rey than Juliet," Anakin told the woodchucks. "Rey keeps her temper."

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"Wasn't the back locker her idea, too?" Rey asked.

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"It was," Anakin agreed, nodding.

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"I won't tell her." It was less a threat for the woodchucks and more just not telling Juliet the sanctity of her snack locker was almost violated.

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"I appreciate it," Anakin said. "She wouldn't be fit to live with."

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Rey smiled. "Are you sending her fur training this summer?"

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Anakin nodded. "She only pretends to hate it these days."

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"Is it getting more fun the easier it gets?" Rey guessed.

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"I think so," Anakin agreed.

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"Is she still going to the same place as before?" Rey asked.

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Anakin nodded. "Tenel Ka doesn't put up with nonsense."

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"I kind of want to ask her about it," she said.

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"Tenel Ka or Juliet?" Anakin asked. "I can arrange for both."

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"Both, now that you say it," she said. "But mostly Juliet."

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"I'll send her by next week before we go," Anakin promised.

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"Thanks. If I have a student eighr here learning from somewhere else, I should listen," she said.

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"She loves training with you," Anakin said.

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Rey smiled, clearly pleased. "I like it, too. And maybe it helps when she can talk about what it's like."

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Anakin nodded. "You are much closer to her age than I am, so that helps too."

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"And she's been training longer than me, probably," she said.

She wasn't self-conscious about that kind of thing anymore.

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"But she was training in different things," Anakin said.

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"And how I had to train was pretty unique, aside from Luke."

And he'd had it harder than her.

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Anakin nodded. "I would say including Luke."

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"I phrased it badly," she said. "There's a reason he and I could talk."

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"Non-traditional trainings," Anakin said with a slight smile.

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"While losing teachers, in a short amount of time," she added.

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"I won't live as long as Yoda," Anakin said, "but I think you're stuck with me for a bit."

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"Good," she said. "Don't think 'dead Masters' wasn't one of my bags."

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Anakin's smile turned wistful. "Sorry."

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Rey shrugged. "It is what it is," she said, not sure what else to say. That was why she had a bag.

The 'dead parental figures' had been its own separate bag, which had seemed a little mean.

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All of their bags had been mean. "I'm responsible for why you didn't have training, so I'm sorry."

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"I'm where I'm supposed to be," she told him. "Look at it that way."

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"I'm not known for my optimism," Anakin replied.

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"Another reason you ended up with me," she returned.

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"The Force enjoys balance," Anakin said, only a little dry.

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"Yes. Different perspectives help," she said.