A bar counter. A bartender. Two singers. Loud music. Several customers. A round table and a cloaked figure behind it.
"Thanks for the drink."
The person thanked and tossed a coin to the bartender who just looked at the anonymous figure. Her cloak branched into two directions on the top. The man at the counter stared at her curiously.
"Other species than humans are rare around here." he said. "Are you a twi'lek? Or a Togruta perhaps?"
"I might just happen to be one." the woman smiled. Her mouth was the only thing that was visible under the cloak.
When she left the bar, she carefully looked around to make sure nobody follows her. And that was so, no one was visible in the area.
Yet, two men exchanged a few words without anyone noticing it.
"Did you know that she goes to pubs?"
"No, did you?"
"No."
The woman looked back but saw no one and didn't take notice of the two chatting individuals who by then vanished like fog.
When she arrived home, she put down her bag, went into the bedroom and set down on the bed with her legs crossed. She closed her eyes and let go of her senses to focus on being calm and on inner peace. She didn't even notice that she elevated from the bed a little bit and that she was levitating. She sensed her sorrundings: people on the streets, growing plants in the room and outside, a bird flying above the house and two men appearing in a sudden moment next to her.
"I knew you would be here... Skyguy." she said.
"Ahh, I really hoped I could scare you or something, Snips."
"That's very thoughtful of you, Anakin." the other man said. "Hello Ahsoka."
The Togruta opened her eyes and witnessed the Force ghosts of Anakin, her former master smirking and Obi-Wan trying to look anxiously at him, however, failing to hide his honest smile. They looked just the same as when they three last met each other.
"So, what are you doing these days?" Anakin asked her.
"Trying to find people in need of help but usually they find me first. How about you?"
"Jedi business." Skywalker said in a high tone of voice and with his chin raised.
"Anakin, don't you dare say 'go back to your drinks'." Obi-Wan interrupted.
"I swear I didn't intend to!" Anakin replied quickly. "After all, didn't she just come back from a bar? After two rounds she would be unconscious."
"Like you and Master Obi-Wan were when you paid a visit to Hondo and the pirates?"
"Agh, don't even mention it! We were in the same cells with Dooku." Kenobi said with disgust.
"I told to kill him there and then. Everything would have turned out better. Am I right or am I right?" Anakin explained.
"Killing someone might seem to be the rational decision at times but believe it or not, it isn't always." Obi-Wan argued.
"Yes, for example when you tried to kill me on Malachor?" Ahsoka asked.
"Or when you actually did kill me on the Death Star?"
"Hey, you sensed it a long time ago when we were chasing Padmé's assassin. You can't say you didn't see it coming." Anakin said it as his excuse.
"Seriously? That's the weakest excuse from you and trust me, I've heard a lot while being your master for I don't even want to know how many years. It's not fair at all."
"I'm not trying to be."
"Do you know what else isn't fair? Stealing my lines." Ahsoka referred to an old conversation. "Oh, by the way, Obi-Wan looks great as a Force ghost."
"That's very kind of you, Ahsoka." Obi-Wan thanked.
The woman and her master exchanged glances and sensed each other's thoughts.
"I think she means that your white hairs don't stand out this way... That much."
Obi-Wan rolled his eyes and the two others couldn't stand not to chuckle.
"Oh yeah? Well, let me remind you, Anakin, that if it wasn't for me you wouldn't be here now." Obi-Wan made him remember the events on the second Death Star.
"Just so you know, I probably could have survived if I wanted to."
"Then why didn't you?"
"So that I can stalk Ahsoka at all time."
"You what?!" she asked scaredly.
"Easy, snips. Don't take everything seriously."
Ahsoka facepalmed.
"...just sometimes of course." Anakin continued.
"I hardly believe you could have left the Death Star alive." Obi-Wan interrupted. "You never liked being electrocuted."
"I always thought Anakin fancied that. Otherwise, he wouldn't have told me how he drove a car through the power couplings on Coruscant when he was still your padawan." Ahsoka said with strained surprise.
"Oh-ha", Obi-Wan laughed "you should have seen his face when Dooku pushed him to the wall with Force lightning. He said 'I'm going to take him.' He ran towards him and got knocked out quite quickly."
"Seriously though? I was just a padawan back then and you were a Jedi Master." Anakin tried to make the situation a bit more confident for himself.
"Yeah... Something you never were..." Kenobi reminded him.
"Wait, I knew he was granted a seat on the Council. Doesn't that make one a master right away?" Ahsoka asked confusedly.
"It does not, that's not how it works."
"Well actually, I was thankful for being invited to the Council and I accepted their decision, I just..." he started.
"You just? You just almost attacked Master Windu." Obi-Wan said.
"Hey, not everyone gets the chance to cut a sith in half as a padawan and get the rank of Master immediately." Anakin tried to slip out of the way of the accusation. "And to be exact, you didn't quite kill Maul back then."
"No, I didn't." Obi-Wan hesitated. "There's something I always wanted to know. Ahsoka, you captured Maul. So how did he escape on your way back to Coruscant?"
"He... ummm, escaped. Mind tricked the Clones guarding him and made them free him. Then he found a shuttle."
"Hm, makes sense. It's hard to kill Maul. Once you think you're done with him, he shows up a few years later."
Meanwhile, the Togruta and Anakin looked at each other and with her eyes she said: sorry. For that Anakin just nodded and smiled.
"But I did kill him at the end," Kenobi progressed in the story and looked proud. "which reminds me of Tatooine. I hated that planet. Binary suns...yuck." he said with disgusts.
"Oh, poor you! Luckily you weren't a slave for almost a decade." Anakin said while acting like he was sorry for him.
"But Master Kenobi rescued you if I know the story correctly." Ahsoka said.
"Therefore he doesn't owe me that much for me saving his life ten times." Anakin paused her sentence.
"Ninth time! You say it like I didn't mention that that business on Cato Neimoidia doesn't count."
"A very wise Jedi once said: nothing happens by accident." Anakin reminded him.
"And who was that very wise Jedi?" his padawan inquired.
"Me, actually."
"So you came up with this clever idea, Master, and you are performing this line like it was said by a wise ancient Jedi." Ahsoka said with widely-opened eyes.
"Well, I got the wise part and by now in a sense people can call me ancient as well." he bragged.
"Oh no, I'm enjoying it far too much." Obi-Wan told them after paying close attention to them.
"An ancient Jedi are you searching for, hm?" Anakin said and tried to imitate Yoda's voice.
"I recognise our little kind friend, Master Yoda." Ahsoka identified.
"Hm, certainly. They always shared something in common." Obi-Wan beginned.
"Which is?" Ahsoka asked.
"Always being lower than their enemies." Kenobi found his own joke mostly amusing.
"Are you really bringing that up now? It wasn't a fair fight at all. You clearly had the advantage." Anakin argued.
"What are you two talking about?"
"Nothing special, Anakin is just rewinding the time when he became half as tall in one second. And here I was underestimating his power according to him."
"Oh by the way," Anakin slashed back "it's completely your fault that I turned to the Dark Side. If Ahsoka hadn't left me and Obi-..."
"Seriously? Are you blaming it on me?"
"I think Ahsoka took a lesson from you by not listening to what the Council says."
"Master, all I learned is from you." Skywalker turned to Kenobi.
"Why do I even try...?"
"I firmly doubt that to be honest." the girl confessed.
"Still so reckless... I still think you would have never made it as Obi-wan's padawan."
"Says the one who jumped out of a moving vehicle to skydive to another speeder at least 10 metres below him." Obi-Wan said while slowly stroking his beard.
"Does anyone care what the padawan thinks?" Ahsoka asked them.
"Yeah, this used to be the part when the master says yes and then completely ignores them." Obi-Wan explained.
"What? I never noticed that." his padawan confessed.
"Because you weren't paying attention."
"I have a special talent at that." Anakin said.
Ahsoka laughed knowing in fact how true that was.
"By the way, have you ever met any other being from Masters Yoda and Yaddle's species?" she asked.
"No, why?" the oldest one asked back.
"Because I've found one. It's only a child."
"Oh, look at that. It seems like Ahsoka is finally getting a padawan." Anakin explained his own interpretation."
"I'm not exactly..."
"Yes, it was time." Obi-Wan agreed.
"May I..."
"Is it here? I would love to see it. A young Yoda! Hah! I wonder how that looks like." Anakin interrupted.
"Actually, it's with a Mandalorian to whom I told to take it to Tython."
"The seeing stone, right?" Kenobi tried to guess.
"Yes. I told him that a Jedi might sense him and come."
"And why couldn't you train him?" Anakin asked.
"Because I'm no Jedi maybe?"
"Ahh, not this thing again... I've had enough."
"I was hoping Luke could find him. Although, I don't know what he's up to nowadays." Ahsoka elaborated.
"Luke? My son! Oh, he is going to take good care of him, don't worry."
"I hope the youngest Skywalker treats kids better than his father did." Obi-Wan said.
"What do you mean?"
"Nothing, never mind."
"Forgive me but I have to see my son now. It's been almost a we- so quite a while."
Anakin gave a last smirk at his padawan and vanished not leaving any mark of him ever appearing there.
"Always on the move." Obi-Wan concluded.
"You two certainly haven't changed."
"I will take it as a compliment."
"Take it as you will, Master." Ahsoka told him while smiling with her head tilted.
"It was good to see you Ahsoka."
"I can tell the same thing about you."
They said good bye to each other and Obi-Wan, likewise Anakin, disappeared into the Force.
Ahsoka rubbed her eyes when realized they were a bit wet. The laughter and enjoyment made it to her.
"I almost forgot. Anakin didn't lie. Force ghosts can appear anywhere and at anytime. But I can't tell if he was being serious about...well, you remember what he said." Kenobi's voice told her.
"Oh no..." she thought.
The ex-Jedi slept very well that night. She knew she could easily interact with her two masters but she had different duties to fulfill in the lines of the living beings. Maybe she would soon pay a visit to the new Jedi Order to see how things go around and maybe even meet Anakin's grandson that he told about before so proudly.