Office hours [all day Thursday]

[sith_happened]

Anakin was in a fantastic mood today. Rory and Juliet had come onto the island with him, and it had been far too long since he'd had the chance to have a lunch date with his wife

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[trigons_child]

Despite the awful weekend, Raven couldn't help but smile at the site of Anakin with Juliet. "Is she to be your new teaching assistant?" she teased.

[sith_happened]

"Yes," Anakin declared. "She has many thoughts about ethics. How are you, Raven?"

[trigons_child]

"The weekend was not good, but I am doing better now," Raven said, waving at Juliet as she took a seat.

[sith_happened]

"The gremlins?" Anakin replied, bouncing Juliet a bit on his knee.

[trigons_child]

"Yes," Raven said quietly. "It was more difficult than I thought it would be for me." She was careful to keep her shielding at full strength; she didn't want to accidentally project anything about her feelings about the weekend, not with a baby in the room.

[sith_happened]

Anakin watched Raven carefully. "The baby's shielded," he assured her. "Tell me what happened."

[trigons_child]

"I remained in Caritas for much of the weekend," Raven said, "as that was where they set up a first aid station. I healed as many as I could until I returned to the dorms with Dinah. I wanted to see if I could absorb some of the gremlin's aggression, but...there were too many of them."

[sith_happened]

"Overload?" Anakin guessed, pointing to his forehead.

[trigons_child]

Raven nodded. "I was able to calm several of the gremlins, but there were so many that I could not continue without being overcome. Dinah was watching me and was able to snap me out of it."

If by "snap her out of it" she meant "bonk her over the head with a flashlight."

[sith_happened]

"How did she do that?" Anakin asked, handing Juliet a rattle.

[trigons_child]

"She struck me," Raven said. "It had the desired effect."

[sith_happened]

"She struck you?" Anakin repeated, frowning hard. "Where?"

[trigons_child]

"On the roof," Raven said promptly.

She wasn't being deliberately difficult, really.

[sith_happened]

Anakin scowled at her. "In the arm, across the face, where?"

[trigons_child]

"On my head," Raven said, touching her hand to the top of her head. "With her flashlight. I was not injured at all." She didn't want to get Dinah in any trouble for doing what she had to do.

[sith_happened]

Anakin gave her a very tiny smile. "Your head isn't that hard," he teased. "We'll work on shielding so people don't have to hit you during invasions."