"How do your insides feel?"
"Like Mace Windu wrapped them around his lightsaber."
Obi Wan grinned. "That's a very creative description."
"Where's Father?"
"He left a while back to go out for some air."
Leila looked at him for a long moment. "I think you impressed him."
"That wasn't my intent."
"Have you accepted the idea of being a farmer?"
Obi Wan shot her a dry look. "What do you think?"
"Then what…"
"I have accepted that nothing is for certain. Things change. Wars come and wars ago. But some things remain immortal."
Leila studied him. "I've never heard you talk like that. Are you feeling well?"
"Better than you."
The door opened and Qui Gon came in and was greeted by both of them laughing uproariously. "Obi Wan, are you giving her time to heal?"
"Master says that laughter is the best medicine one can have."
Qui Gon sat next to Leila and wrapped an arm around her. "Well, I'm sure he's not referring to internal bleeding."
"I'm fine. Just sore."
"I think she's better than she's letting on," said Obi Wan. "I think she just enjoys us carrying her around."
"I do not enjoy you carrying me around and threatening to dump me in the water."
"You know I really wouldn't have done such a thing."
"I knew no such thing. Nothing is certain, Obi Wan, and your brain is the least certain of things."
Qui Gon smiled. He watched the two of them argue back and forth. He could foresee many Jedi rules being broken by these two as they got older. The thought made his smile grow even larger. "We should reach Bandomeer by tomorrow night."
Leila and Obi Wan stopped laughing. But Obi Wan's eyes where still full of laughter.
"I fear there will be nasty business there."
Leila met his gaze and held it a long moment.
"Yes. Fertilizer," said Obi Wan with a serious face.
Leila burst out laughing.
Qui Gon smiled. Obi Wan was right. Now was not the time to think of dark things. There would time enough for that tomorrow. And the day after that.