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text | un: zing zang voombah

[spiritwalks]

Hey man

Did you mean to send this?

[facultative]

[...]

No.

[spiritwalks]

Thought not

[facultative]

I don't want to talk about it.

[Vyng actually hasn't said anything, but everyone always wants to talk about it.]

[spiritwalks]

That's fine. You don't have to

[facultative]

Really? You're not going to push it?

[spiritwalks]

Not if you don't want to talk about it, no

[They may have a radical open-door policy at Vyng's house, but that's one boundary everyone in his family generally respects.]

[facultative]

[It used to be enough to say 'no', but he'd proven it was a bad idea to give him that space.]

Not even about the lack of beard on him?

[spiritwalks]

I almost didn't recognize him without it, to be honest

[They were both so young.]

[facultative]

He thought he looked too young.

[Never mind that he's still older there than Anakin is now.]

[spiritwalks]

Because he felt older than he looked?
Or because he looked younger than what other people expected?

[facultative]

[His hesitance doesn't come across which is why Anakin prefers texting.]

The latter I think.

You don't normally get a padawan the moment you stop being one yourself.

[spiritwalks]

Sounds like you both needed to grow up fast

[facultative]

You learn to adapt quickly and he made sure I never thought I needed more.

[No matter how out of his depth Anakin had felt at times, Obi-Wan had taken care to be there for him every step of the way. If he had equally felt out of his depth, Anakin was too distracted by his own problems to notice.]

[spiritwalks]

You had each other. You still do

[facultative]

I don't know about that.

[spiritwalks]

What do you mean?

[facultative]

He knows now.

[spiritwalks]

That's true. He also came back

[facultative]

He asked me to go.

[spiritwalks]

Are you sure he didn't mean temporarily?

When I asked him if we he was up for in-person company, he said he wasn't there yet. Like he needed time to find his footing

[facultative]

I've just killed everyone he's ever cared about.

[spiritwalks]

In his past? Or yours?

[Ever since they first met, he'd always had the sense Anakin was waiting for the other shoe to drop. It's starting to make sense now.]

[facultative]

It's all the same.

[It doesn't stop being him because he hasn't lived it yet. Others have and that's enough.]

[spiritwalks]

You don't think he cares about your future in this town?