( Last Sunday night in Fandom, Anakin had been in his dorm room, on the comm with Tahiri. )

So . . . that had been an eventful trip home. They usually were, but crash-landing ships and getting shot at and beating unreasonable odds were the kinds of eventful he was used to. Finally getting to meet the baby cousin who was also one of his teachers and -- well, everything that had happened with Tahiri? That was the kind of eventful that ( Read more... )

( It had only been about five minutes by Anakin's estimation, but it was cold. )

"I say we escape," Tahiri was saying as she paced restlessly back and forth in the "guest" chamber where they were all cooling their heels. "All we need is another ship."

Corran snorted. ( 'As long as you're wishing for the unlikely, why not at least wish for vac suits first?' )

( On an asteroid that revolved every four hours, one day felt like forever. )

( They had three days' worth of supplies in their survival kit, vac suits, and no ship. )

"Why don't you explain to me," Corran Horn said, "in great detail, why you were joyriding on a judicial speeder. And do not leave out the part that explains why people were shooting at me, and why you two disobeyed my direct order."

The hyperspace jump Anakin had laid in was several hours long, ( ample time for him and Tahiri to explain everything. )

Eriadu was an industrial planet, and it showed in the shape of the skyline and the heavy pollution that hung in the atmosphere. It smelled like one, too, according to Tahiri. Anakin sometimes forgot how much she'd been stuck on remote planets until something like her reaction now came along and reminded him, but he wasn't sure what to make of how ( Read more... )

Anakin had barely gotten back from Fandom when Corran Horn tracked him down and asked if he'd be interested in tagging along on a routine supply run. It took no consideration at all for him to agree; going back and forth between here and Fandom took some of the edge off his restlessness (and the family night at Caritas had been weird but in a good ( Read more... )

Anakin felt guilty being back here at all, to tell the truth. (Anakin felt guilty about a lot of things, but that had been the status quo for the past couple of years.) ( He and Tahiri had managed to escape Yavin 4 . . . )