Negotiations with a Lightsaber

After dropping somehow into a wood between worlds and having a couple of rather interesting conversations -- though he couldn't quite remember one of them all that well, he figured it would come to him later. An after effect, maybe, of the weird memory problem he'd had on his way in, at first. Either way, it was after that, as Anakin had found his way back to the pool that he thought of as 'his', that he had come up through.

Surprisingly enough, when he dropped back into the world he'd left behind, Coruscant, it was exactly where he'd left it. And, as Anakin glanced out a nearby window, it seemed that the sun hadn't moved much, if at all. Maybe he wouldn't be late after all!

That thought in mind, the young Jedi apprentice took off through the corridors of the Senate toward the Chancellor's office.

But, wow, would he have a story to tell Obi-Wan later or what?

Or wait. Maybe that wasn't one of his better ideas. He'd have to think about it.

And so, it was a rather more pensive Anakin than usual who greeted the Chancellor a moment later and for once, it was Anakin who had to cut short their meeting, apologizing profusely as he did so and claiming he was late back to the Temple. Of course, the Chancellor understood -- he always did -- and once more, Anakin was off, back to the Temple.

He didn't tell Obi-Wan about the Wood or the Lodge, or that anything out of the ordinary had happened to him. And, truly, by the next morning the whole experience had taken on a rather dreamlike quality anyway.

Imagine his surprise when a week or two later, he found himself once more standing in a quiet wood with his boots wet.