Rey's warehouse- Friday afternoon

[thatwaslucky]

It was a very complicated week! There wasn't anything bad, but Rey's head was in a lot of different places, sometimes all at once. That meant that this morning she very much took it all out on the course, and then cracked open the snack locker to set things out in the little seating area she'd made out of crates.

It was going to be that kind of day.


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[sith_happened]

"Rey?" Anakin called as he entered.

[thatwaslucky]

"There's food," she announced. Because it was that kind of day.

And it wasn't food as much as snacks, but, details.

[sith_happened]

"Did you cook?" Anakin asked. Because he couldn't at all.

[thatwaslucky]

"No, I raided the locker," she admitted.

[sith_happened]

Anakin laughed. "With Juliet gone for the summer, there's even some of the good snacks left."

[thatwaslucky]

"I'll replace them," she promised. "But for now..."

She held up a bag of chocolate pretzels.

[sith_happened]

"Excellent choice," Anakin said approvingly.

[thatwaslucky]

"How are you doing?" she said, reaching into the bag.

[sith_happened]

"I'm fine," Anakin said, "but you've had a busy week, so I wanted to check in, too."

[thatwaslucky]

"I'm okay," she said with a shrug. "Just in a weird headspace."

[sith_happened]

"Weird how?" Anakin asked, reaching for a handful of chocolate pretzels.

[thatwaslucky]

Wow, wasn't this pretzel fascinating! It definitely needed to take her attention in this moment.

"I went to Luke's temple."

[sith_happened]

"Ahh," Anakin said, nodding. "That would be a lot."

[thatwaslucky]

"It really is," she said, looking back up at him. "I could still feel the echoes of what happened. Like seeing two people you miss in a memory of their worst moment."

[sith_happened]

Anakin didn't try to hold back the quick Force wave of reassurance he sent out towards her, but he kept quiet, encouraging her to keep talking.

[thatwaslucky]

"So there was that, August is hard in general, I came back and Summer's gone for the first week, I may have gotten a little protective of Adrian... So I'm okay, but it's just..."

She didn't have a word for it. She had a hand gesture that sort of looked like the motion of an in-use washing machine, which did feel apt.

[sith_happened]

Anakin nodded. "How protective of Adrian?" he asked.

[thatwaslucky]

"He has to do something dangerous, I offered to go along," she said. "I think I might have been pushy about it."

Or she felt like it, anyway.

[sith_happened]

"He can always text you later and tell you not to come, or never tell you where to meet if he was really bothered by it," Anakin said. "I think you're okay."

[thatwaslucky]

"I'm not too worried. And I'd still go anyway." Oops. "I think everything else just came out that way."

[sith_happened]

"Discombobulated?" Anakin replied. "That temple would be a lot to process."

[thatwaslucky]

She nodded. "It was almost completely destroyed. And it doesn't seem like it was on purpose."

Kind of added a new dimension to things.

[sith_happened]

"Like it had fallen into disrepair since Luke, or that he hadn't done anything to it beforehand?" Anakin asked.

[thatwaslucky]

"Like Ben exploded it and killed everyone in it, and I think it was an automatic reaction instead of a deliberate act."

He hasn't killed everyone but she has no way of knowing that.

[sith_happened]

Anakin made a pained face. "That's a lot of energy to absorb."

He knew going back to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant had felt awful: misery, pain, and suffering soaked into the walls.