Aizuwakamatsu, Japan, Thursday [Daytime]

[firstofitskind]

Time to leave behind the hustle and bustle of big city life and head to somewhere a little quieter! Today we're back on the train and heading to Aizuwakamatsu.

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Re: Amida Temple

[thatwaslucky]

"How is it working?" she asked.

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[sith_happened]

"Better than teenaged me would imagine," Anakin said. "How are you doing?"

Re: Amida Temple

[thatwaslucky]

"All right," she said, and felt like she should have more to say there. Like she didn't realize how much there was to her answer until she started giving it.

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[sith_happened]

Anakin gestured to a rock next him. "Sit down and meditate?"

Re: Amida Temple

[thatwaslucky]

"I haven't really been meditating," she admitted, but took a seat on the rock anyway.

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[sith_happened]

"Too much vacationing?" Anakin teased lightly.

Re: Amida Temple

[thatwaslucky]

"Kind of," Rey admitted. "I've liked the distractions."

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[sith_happened]

"Why do you think that is?" Anakin asked.

Re: Amida Temple

[thatwaslucky]

"I haven't wanted to think?" she shrugged.

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[sith_happened]

"And why not?" Anakin asked, leaning hard into Exasperating Jedi Master.

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[thatwaslucky]

"You know why," she replied.

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[sith_happened]

He smiled. "Just checking that you do as well."

He had spent the better part of his twenties running fast and hard from that knowledge.

Re: Amida Temple

[thatwaslucky]

"I don't forget," she said, maybe not quite understanding. "I just don't know what to do with it."

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[sith_happened]

"Sit with it," Anakin suggested. "Quietly."

It could get acutely uncomfortable.

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[thatwaslucky]

"I'd rather not."

She'd suppressed worse.

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[sith_happened]

"Neither did I when I first encountered it, and that ended very, very badly."

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[thatwaslucky]

"It's not that I won't," Rey told him. "If I don't stay busy, then all I do is sit with it."

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[sith_happened]

"You're waiting to go home?" Anakin guessed.

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[thatwaslucky]

"Maybe. I'm not really sure why," she said. "Maybe I don't want others to have to deal with me if I do."

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[sith_happened]

"Interesting phrasing, 'deal with'," Anakin said with a smile. "How do you think you're going to react?"

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[thatwaslucky]

"I have no idea." It was weird to not trust herself when for the vast majority of her life she'd been the only person she could trust. "Luke said I went straight to the dark but I've never really had to deal with it."

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[sith_happened]

"You didn't have to deal with that first encounter at all?" Anakin asked, raising his eyebrows.

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[thatwaslucky]

"There wasn't really time. Trying to get Luke to train me and come back, having Kylo Ren in my head... that all happened in one day. I was on the Supremacy facing Snoke that night," she explained. "And then it was all Resistance all the time, and then I was here."

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[sith_happened]

Anakin winced. "And so you learned from that if you just...didn't stop, it would be all right."

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[thatwaslucky]

"Not exactly. But it... it wasn't a problem," she said. "I was warned away from that dark side cave and nothing happened. Kanan thought I should have had some bad effects, and nothing."