Obi-Wan was starting to think that Anakin was cheating with the snow shoveling, because there was no way that his former apprentice could clear out three meters of snow in the span of ten seconds.
"I thought I told you to be discreet?" Obi-Wan muttered, hoisting a shovel's worth of snow out to the outer banks. He glanced once over their shoulders, where the other villagers were thankfully keeping to their own tasks.
"I am being discreet," Anakin replied, but the little waver at the end of his voice told Obi-Wan that his guess had been right.
"I know it's tempting," Obi-Wan said quietly, digging his shovel into the snow, "but you can't use the Force to clear out the snow. The others will be suspicious."
"No, they'll be impressed—"
"So impressed that they'll call the nearest Separatist base," Obi-Wan replied, nodding to the next stretch of snow in front of them.
Anakin sighed. "It's just a lot," he said, digging his shovel into the snow. "And it's cold."
"Yes, you would almost think we're on a planet that regularly snows," Obi-Wan said.
A moment later, Obi-Wan felt something cold dump on his back, and when he spun around, Anakin was already going back to shoveling the snow.
Obi-Wan waited exactly thirty seconds before dumping his own shovel's worth of snow on Anakin's back.
The shout of surprise that came after was mildly worth it.
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