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[jedies]

[ the feed turns on to show you a small child in white robes, looking like he got out of bed with tousled hair and sharp blue eyes. he seems to be looking around warily, his jaw tight. ]

So this is a kidnapping right? By one of those slavers?

[ he lets out a quiet breath like he was taught. gehren. he hoped she was safe. ]

Fine, whatever. Where is the closest space port?

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[hopesparks]

[ Who is this sassy lost child. ]

Slavers didn't kidnap you. Honestly, I don't think anyone knows for sure how we get here.

[jedies]

[ obi-wan frowns. ]

That doesn't mean it's not slavers. And I fought some recently.

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[facultative]

Slavers wouldn't have left you alone.

[jedies]

I made them leave. They don't know how to deal with Jedi.

[hopesparks]

[ Anakin shakes his head. ] What brought us here was able to pull people from all over time and space and across realities.

[jedies]

What.

[facultative]

[Okay, Anakin is out. He doesn't want to deal with any more Jedi or Jedi adjacent people any more. This is not his problem.]

Neither do most other people here.

Contact Master Kenobi, he'll get you sorted.

[jedies]

Master Kenobi? There isn't a Master Kenobi.

But I'm Obi-Wan Kenobi.

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[lludw]

[It's the word slavers that catches Lucius's attention, snapping like a bowstring. The reference to a "space port" lessens his alarm - that's something someone new or who's shed into no longer remembering Trench would talk about would say.

Still. One of the best things about Trench, possibly the best thing about Trench, is that for all them monsters here, it's lacking that type. And it had better stay that way.]

Have you seen slavers, or is that a guess?

[jedies]

I don't make things up.

Gehren and I ran into them when we were in the lowers levels of Coruscant.

[hopesparks]

Yeah. [ Anakin winces sympathetically. ] It's a lot to take in. Did you get your welcome bag?

[jedies]

I didn't get a bag. And why would I be here?

I have to get back to the Temple.

[facultative]

No you're not.

[lludw]

[What's a Coruscant? A keep?]

I meant here, in Trench.

You know that's where you are, right?

[At this point, he expects the answer to be "no."]

[jedies]

I think I'd know who I am.

[jedies]

[ obi-wan pauses, gathering his thoughts. ]

Is it . . . a planet?

[hopesparks]

[ Didn't get a bag? That's unusual. ]

You should've gotten one. Do you remember where you washed ashore?

[jedies]

Why would I have washed up ashore?

[hopesparks]

That's how most people arrive in the Trench. They wash ashore as squid and transform into themselves.

If you didn't arrive that way, where were you when you arrived?

[facultative]

[Anakin would know if Obi-Wan was in a cocoon at any point ergo, this kid is full of shit.]

Obi-Wan is 60, not 5.

[jedies]

My name is Obi-Wan Kenobi. I'm from the Temple on Coruscant. I know who I am.

[jedies]

Some house, I think. I just left.

[lludw]

[You know, one of the benefits of spending most of his time with pseudo-Victorians is that they think on what Lucius considers to be a reasonable scale.

He manages not to sigh. He does have more than a year's worth of soaking up information to make this conversation work.]

Trench is the town.

The planet is Earth.

[jedies]

. . . They named their planet Dirt?

[ like. why. ]

[hopesparks]

[ Ah. Shedding. ]

I see. I can come meet you, if you'd feel safer traveling with someone else.