Ezra instantly knew how to navigate the vents when he turned the corner. He figured out from experience that vents roughly followed the same structure as the ground floor below, so in order to get back (secretly) to his quarters, he would have to blind-walk in the vents. But on the bright side, he wouldn't be bossed around by the droid, so...

His forehead was still slightly throbbing, but it wasn't that serious. So he continued navigating the dim, twisting passages.

Since his quarters was on the other wing of the Temple, he would have to cross the south wing back to his quarters. Then that meant he would have to crawl all the way from the series of classrooms, first set of Jedi General and Commander dormitories back to his wing.

At first, it seemed like a easy job. But it wasn't. He had to suffer the traumatic stress of crawling over vents, that looked rather flimsy and would fall at any second. Plus, they had slits on them, so he could see the ground below. He prayed hard that the working Padawans below wouldn't notice his face on the ceiling. Then that would be a real problem. The last thing on his bucket list would be being 'apprehended' by Kanan from the ceiling in the middle of a politics class with fifty Padawans in the room.

Therefore with care and agility, he crept over vents and tried to avoid stepping on them in case one decided to drop down in the last second.

But he encountered a problem at a cross-road like thing. He was very sure that he remembered correctly which turn he should make, however it seemed like his memory was lagging. Finally remembering that he should make a left turn to proceed, he tried to crawl forwards, but his feet took a wrong step and accidentally made contact with the vent behind him.

Unfortunately, the vent was a flimsy one.

So it fell down with a clutter, bringing Ezra down as well and falling on something that was squishy. The next thing he knew, was that he fell on someone.

A silent agreement passed through Ahsoka and Obi-wan's mind and they promptly dashed to inspect Anakin's room.

' ARGGGGH!' There was yet another painful bellow followed by a stream of words (that wasn't, uh, nice) shouted in Huttese.

The door panel slid open and to their amusement and slight surprise... Anakin was firmly sandwiched between the mattress and Ezra, with only his four limbs poking out like a turtle from under a shell. Ezra and Anakin groaned at the same time. But it appeared that Ezra was the first one to recover. It didn't take him long to realise where he had landed and he promptly scooted off the bed until he lay on the floor, looking both horrified and mortified at the same time.

Ahsoka went over to help Ezra, while Obi-wan tried his best to, um, make his former Padawan resurface from the mattress. He was deeply squashed into the mattress like a carbonite statue and the entire thing was sagging under all the weight. Finally, Obi-wan succeeded in helping Anakin out of the bed and the man didn't look pleased. At all.

Ezra was terrified to death at the thought of angering Ahsoka's former Master, because from all the random news on the Holo channel he had watched from spare time the last few days, he knew that the man was one of the best Jedi to ever walk upon the Order.

' Kid, how did you end up on top of me?' He scowled deeply. ' I feel like a sandwich!'

Ezra explained about the entire vent crawling thing to escape from Kanan, his face burning as he spoke about the chair-flying accident. Though he didn't mention the origin of the idea.

All the displeasure from Anakin's eyes vanished immediately, and it turned into a wide grin. ' You crawled out of the medbay via the vent? Good for you, kid! It seems like the tradition of vent-escaping hasn't vanished at all,' he said, satisfied.

Ezra thought, what.

' I was right!' Obi-wan announced, half-triumphant. ' I knew it! When that Kanan boy was out shouting for the escaped Padawan, I knew that he must have escaped into the vent system!'

Ezra said, ' Oh no. Kanan is looking for me! Wait. How do you know about the vent system? What tradition?

' Oh!' Obi-wan huffed, glaring at Anakin. ' When this boy was a kid, he would always escape from the Halls of Healing through the vent system and hide under his fighter for the entire day until I come to drag him away with force.'

' And don't forget to mention, Ahsoka does that too!' Anakin finished. ' Remember all the times when she disappears from medbay-'

' And into my room too. I totally remember the time when Ahsoka fell directly with her feet stomping on my poor pot of tea,' Obi-wan shook his head. ' Like Master, like Padawan. Both are kids that will never grow up.'

' HEY!' They protested.

' You guys crawl in the vent too?' Ezra asked incredulously.

' Uh huh,' Ahsoka nodded. ' Though how did you fall on top of Anakin? You should be able to avoid all the vent covers. It's a, let's say, a rare occurrence. I have never fallen from the vent by accident.'

' What? You purposely fell on top of my limited-edition tea pot?!' Obi-wan cried out loud.

' Technically, I didn't see your teapot from my point of view! It was kind of an accident casualty,' Ahsoka defended. ' Anyways... How did you fall down?'

' Oh,' Ezra scratched his head, embarrassed. ' I did try to, but it was too dark and I took a wrong step. I didn't intend to fall on you, Master Skywalker.'

' Blast,' Ahsoka sighed. ' I should have told you the other trick when I had the chance before you were locked in. Remember to light your lightsaber in the vents. It'll help you see in the dark.'

Obi-wan grinned, ' Oho! So you taught him the vent trick!'

' Yes I did,' Ahsoka shrugged. ' What's the problem? He can treat himself if he wants to. Look, he has his ointment with him.'

' Though, kid, your Master won't be happy,' Anakin said thoughtfully. ' I think you had better hide somewhere... And show up when he cools down enough.'

' Point taken,' Ezra nodded and ran out of the room.

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