winter is a lingering season

[thecutdiamond]

❄ it's quiet and the snow's beautiful tonight → a winter open meme ‧ post with whatever character you want ‧ responders roll for weather + scenario and get to threading ‧ ??? ‧ profit snowfall; stage i; none, streets are already blanketed in white. stage ii; very light and intermittent. stage iii; light - moderate. lasts longer periods. stage iv; continuous, heavy snowfall. stage v; the hardest of cores - blizzards, snowstorms, you name it. scenarios; ① fuck the police, this is the best time for a walk. hope you've got a nice thick coat on. ② stranded in the buttcrack of nowheresville? weren't you watching the time? now you've gone and missed that last bus out of there. or maybe you're lost, somehow. what do? ③ literally chilling, in this weather, is quite easy to do. sitting around relaxing in it is a wee more difficult, but sometimes much more enjoyable, especially if shelter can be found. the snow is beautiful to watch, after all. ④ the weather's not going to stop you. your snow fort's packed full of ammo and ready to go. those aren't snow angels over there; they mark where the poor souls you've downed have fallen. be careful with that snowman's head!! ⑤ you're about fifty miles from civilization but there's a roof over your head, so never mind the chilly draught, right? right. you mightn't be the only one lucky enough to stumble upon this little shelter, though. remember to share the blanket. ⑥ everyone stuck outside should be jelly. you've got a fireplace and hot cocoa and damn if it isn't awesome. a heater's not quite so romantic, but it'd do. there'd better be a backup generator in case the power trips. ⑦ mix and match, or make up your own ‧:❉:‧ - from krystaliske @ memebells

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[jedimindtrick]

I think it would make things a bit easier.

[ All at once and for no real reason at all, he feels like they're young again, the both of them. Like they've got no real clue how they're supposed to move forward (even if he knows they're both far too old for that excuse).

He doesn't really give Anakin time to answer, though, more than willing to acquiesce considering their circumstances. ]

You'd rather stay like this? I don't mind if you do. It just doesn't seem terribly comfortable if you're going to try to sleep like that.

[ But, then again, they've slept in worse places in their time together. ]

[ex_forcechoke292]

[Nothing about this is comfortable. He thinks to counter with that, but he's warm, and that's as close to comfort as it gets. It would take more energy to argue than to stay.]

Better than stuck under a desk...or worse.

[They've had worse. He'd grown up with worse on occasion (though accommodations with Watto almost look like a boon compared to this, and that's a horrible thought). He groans a bit at it, off time with the actual conversation, and then winds his fingers more tightly into Obi-Wan's robes.]

I don't know how anyone is built for this.

[jedimindtrick]

[ Kenobi doesn't answer immediately, instead lingers there, adrift for a moment in a the blanketed nothingness of their surroundings. They're still well enough alone, at least, with no need to worry for much more than the weather, but still he finds himself unable to let go of his overall sense of concern. Giving off an unnatural heat that he wouldn't have to spare if he didn't have a connection Force, the Jedi Master tries again to soothe his friend. ]

People have certainly said as much about that scorching desert where we found you.

[ He makes room — enough room — for Skywalker to lay his head down in his lap, probably not for the first or last time in their lives. A shiver shakes him as his defenses waver slightly at the thought of the frigid landscape. ]

One can only wonder what we'd be getting ourselves into if we were there instead of here.

[ex_forcechoke292]

[Anakin finally starts to yawn and finally takes Obi-Wan's cue, as much as the shift only tends to highlight how bitterly cold this cave is. He chuckles with eyes closed, perhaps the only time he ever has with anything in relation to Tatooine.]

Sleeping would be easier. We'd probably be done with this by now. You know--when we get home, I'm burying myself in bed and not coming out for a week.

[jedimindtrick]

You aren't counting on me stopping you, I hope.

[ But then again, Obi-Wan has come to feel that much more strongly about how much they push Skywalker, who is, by all rights, still so very young. He can always use the rest, particularly from such a cruel war.

He rests on hand on the crown of Anakin's head and the other cards through loose curls. ]

This storm won't last.

[ Obi-Wan thinks of how glad he'll be to leave this place, and also about how much he's come to dislike it just because of their current conditions. Even then, he could deal with the cold if he didn't have to see how it nearly cripples Skywalker. ]

And when we accomplish our mission, we'll be that much more pleased that we don't have to look back again.

[ex_forcechoke292]

Stopping me? You're coming with me.

[Which will not actually be accomplished the way he wishes it would. They're both terrible at taking care of themselves, however much either of them talk about how the other needs to do better. Anakin has always had a tendency to put others above himself in everything--even those acts he doesn't divulge to the council, Obi-Wan, or anyone else. He'll spend as much of whatever reprieve they get in the one place that still feels safe. He can't take Obi-Wan with him, not really. His friend wouldn't understand.

But he wishes he could. Curled into the two people that matter most, knowing that he'd have the ability to take both of their implicit senses of trust without the guilt of betrayal sounds beyond heavenly.

For now, with the cold gnawing at his tips and that ever-present guilt eating him from the inside, this will have to do. He lets out a quiet hum of contentment at the fingers in his hair.]

Why do the Seps have such awful taste in planets? If we wouldn't miss it--

[The rest of that thought is dismissed with another grand yawn, and he curls inward just a little closer.]