39 BBY
Turning around in bed Anakin can feel in the Force that a change is coming up and wonders if he and the his other crèche mates who turned three last year will be assigned to his clan or if they will be getting a new crèche mate something Anakin has always enjoyed when it happened. A silent clapping of hands has him turning around in his bed toward the door where he sees master Strahl standing.
"Time to get up younglings we have a long day ahead of us" Master Strahl says from the doorway and he can see the older younglings getting up while he walks around to check on the younger crèchelings who need his help to get ready for the day. He knew that after diner a few clan masters will arrive to take the younglings who are ready to join a clan to their assigned clan.
After getting out of bed Anakin takes his clothes from the end of his bed and quickly puts it on. When he is done he takes his boots from the floor to put them on and when he looks at them he is happy that the cleaning he did yesterday evening in the dark was done right. When he has put his boots on he checks if everything is in order before he walks out of the sleeping area into the main area where he walks up to master Strahl and asks
"Master, what will happen today?"
"What do you ask, Anakin? Did you feel something in the Force" Master Strahl asks confused and sees Anakin nodding in answer.
"Something will happen today. A change, I can feel it. What is it?" Anakin asks enthusiastically.
"Patience, Anakin, patience. You will see what the change is in the evening" Master Strahl says before shooing Anakin into the main room where Anakin is quick to join crèche mates but before they can start a game he hears master Strahl clearing his throat.
"Come on, younglings. We will eat our breakfast in the refractory" Master Strahl says to the joy of the younglings. It is not often that they are allowed eat with the other members of the order as they normally eat in the crèche refractories. Anakin and the older younglings each take the hand of one or two younger crèchelings before following master Strahl as he leads them to the refractory. To the crèchelings the trip feels long but it takes in fact but five minutes.
When they enter the refractory many knights, masters and Padawans are already present and enjoying their own breakfast. Following after master Strahl they move to the buffet where everyone takes one of the smaller tray before following in a line to select their breakfast. Anakin decides to take a sandwich with bacon and some vitamin cubes to satisfy Master Strahl as he isn't sure he has the time to eat fruit and master Strahl always insist that they eat everything on their tray. Anakin knows from their lessons that not everyone in the galaxy has enough food and thus that there are people who are hungry. This lesson they got when they were taking to much food and leaving some of it untouched. He knows that he wants to help those people when he is older.
Breakfast is a lively event as the entire crèche talks about what they want to do today when they are given the time to play and what exercises they think the masters have them do. After breakfast it is back to the main crèche room. They spend the morning playing with toys and listening to stories about Jedi and the order in itself after a short nap. After lunch they are taken to one of the crèche gyms where they can climb and play with balls after a group task where they have to move a ball around on a round sail. Anakin decides to join a group that wants to play with ball. They push the ball around in their group and are so lost in their game that it took them some time to hear master Strahl calling for them to stop and return to the crèche for their nap. Groans where heard all around but master Strahl just smiled and guided them back to the crèche and to their beds.
After a thirty minute nap the older younglings are awoken, Anakin among them. They all know to be silent and to let the others nap for another thirty minutes. Master Strahl uses this time to individually test the youngling's knowledge of the alphabet so that the clan masters will know at which level the younglings are with their understanding of it. In the meantime the others start with their art time, which Anakin uses to draw a bit. Later when everyone is awake the entire crèche has their art time after which it is time for diner in the crèche refractory.
After arriving in the refractory Anakin walks to the counter where a droid gives him a tray with his diner. It consists out of a Banta steak, beans and potatoes and a desert. When Anakin is done eating his diner he looks around and sees Master Strahl talking into a comlink which confuses him as the master never talk into a comlink during diner.
"Anakin, what's wrong?" Tru Veld, a friend of Anakin asks when he sees the confused look on his friends face.
"Did you see master Strahl talking into a comlink? He never does that and I don't know what is going on for him to do so now" Anakin answers.
"I don't know, but if it is important master Strahl will tell us" Tru answers and just when Anakin wants to say something master Strahl claps his hands so the younglings look to him.
"Alright younglings, return your trays to the counter. We need to go back to the crèche as a few masters will be arriving soon and I have something to tell you all" master Strahl says and the younglings follow his instructions before the older younglings take the hands of the younger ones and they walk back to the crèche. After arriving in the main room of the crèche master Strahl mentions for everyone to sit down on the floor.
"You all know that some of you are old enough to join one of our clans" master Strahl says when everyone sat down on the floor and sees the younglings nodding before explaining "Soon a few clan masters will arrive and take those of you who are old enough to your new clan thus when I call your name you will go to the sleeping area to pack your belongings in the backpack that has already been placed on your bed. After you finish packing you will come back to the main room with your backpack on your back to wait for your clan master to call you and to go to the clan rooms" Then master Strahl starts to call the name of the younglings who will be joining a clan.
Anakin stands up when he hears his name being called and walks to the sleeping area to do as master Strahl said. Looking at his bed he sees a backpack lying on it. Walking to his trunk which stand at the foot of his bed, Anakin takes his robes out and puts them on his bed before taking his underwear and socks out of it. Packing takes a bit of time as it doesn't fit at first try so he has to unpack everything and repacking it after changing the order of packing. A short while later he is finished and closes the backpack. Putting it on his back Anakin suspects that he will have to return the backpack when he has unpacked in his new clan's sleeping area. Arriving back in the main room sees two unknown masters talking to master Strahl. Seeing the other younglings who were called Anakin walks up to them and nervously waits with them for the masters to turn towards them and call them towards them. The masters turn to them when the last youngling is back from packing their belongings.
"Younglings, this are master Nagia, master Natsu and master Mia" Master Strhal introduces a yellow Zabrak female, a Human male and a Cathar female. "Master Nagia will start with calling the younglings who are assigned to the Bergruutfa clan, after which master Natsu will call the younglings who are assigned to the Squall clan. The younglings who are left are assigned to the Hawkbat clan and will go with master Mia" master Strahl explains to the younglings how the clan assignment will go.
"Thank you, master Strahl for the introductions. Now would the following younglings come towards me? Inulu, Jicho La, Alioli Millea, Anakin Skywalker and Alaara Vanee" Master Nagia says.
Anakin walks towards Master Nagia when she stopped talking. He knows the other younglings who will be his clan mates but is not particularly close to them. Anakin feels sad that Tru will not be with him in the same clan but he hopes to see him again when they are older. When all five younglings have gathered before master Nagia they look at each other wondering what they should do now.
"Come younglings, let us get to the Bergruutfa's clan main room where you can meet your other clan mates" Master Nagia says and walks out of the crèche towards the clan's main room after the younglings made a line. The younglings follow closely behind her. They walks towards the turbolift which takes them a level higher to the area where the Bergruutfa clan rooms are located.
Arriving in the main room a while later Anakin sees a female human padawan sitting on the floor with five younglings around his age before her. He is not sure how old she is but Anakin suspects that she is almost mature. When the padawan sees them entering she stands up and says
"Master, welcome back. We just arrived from the crèche"
"Thank you padawan for picking the other younglings up" master Nagia tells the padawan before mentioning to the sitting younglings saying
"Younglings, go sit with your clan mates"
The younglings join the others on the ground and wait for master Nagia to join them. They don't have to wait long before she sits down before them and says
"Let's tell everyone our name before telling a bit about ourself and going to the sleeping area where you can unpack your backpacks and ready yourself for bed. My name is master Nagia and I will be your clan master"
"My name is Ninala and I'm master Nagia's padawan as I'm sure you all suspected" padawan Ninala introduces before looking at Anakin and asking
"Youngling, will you tell us your name? Then everyone else can tell us their name when it is their turn"
"I'm Anakin Skywalker" Anakin says.
"I'm Hoshi Chiinos" a male Iktochi says.
"I'm Inulu" a green skinned female Mirialan with red hair and violet eyes says.
"I'm Jicho La" a grey skinned male Nautolan with black eyes says.
"I'm Alioli Millea" a female human with red hair and green eyes says.
"I'm Alaara Vanee" a yellow skinned female Togruta with blue eyes and blue markings on her Lekku says. She also has white markings on her skin around her eyes and on the cheeks.
"I'm Zak" a yellow skinned male Mirialan with brown hair and blue eyes says.
"I'm Erigian Tinwhe" a male human with black hair and brown eyes says.
"I'm Shi Aro" a red skinned female Kel Dor says. Anakin sees that she is wearing a breathing mask and eye goggles.
"I'm Batom Lirlu" a red skinned male Togruta with orange eyes and orange markings on his Lekku says. He also has large white markings around his eyes.
Afterwards they talk a bit about themselves before master Nagia show them to the sleeping area and their new beds. They are told to unpack their backpack, put their belongings in the trunk before their bed and put the empty backpacks near the door before reading themselves for bed something which master Strahl had taught them how to do that last year. Tomorrow master Nagia will tell them how the days are structured and which lessons they will get.
In my universe there are multiple small crèches in the Order so that the crèche masters can give enough attention to the younglings under their care. The crèche have a maximum of thirty younglings.