[Hiding with animal friends is valid, in Ezra's opinion, as long as you don't hide away forever. He even privately approves, as he takes in Maul's surroundings.

He's sitting in the garden area behind Obi-wan's house, with a notebook and Jedi holocron. Self-guided study time. But as he replies to Maul, he scoops those up, and moves to take a Force assisted leap to the roof, so someone can't just walk out and interrupt. Or be bothered by him and Maul talking, for that matter.]

Older-you never really went into details. Whether to protect himself, or me in some way, or both, I'm not sure.

I'd assumed it had to be, well. Worse than I could really imagine. [Which is saying something because by many measures, Ezra's childhood was horrible, too.