"Can't sleep?"
Ahsoka turned around and shrugged. "No," she replied. "You?"
Rex shook his head.
Ahsoka shifted over on the log, waited for Rex to sit down. When he did, they both sighed.
Ahsoka buried herself a little deeper into her cloak. She could see her own breath. She could see Rex's, too. They were both quiet—mostly because they were tired. Just the aftermath of another day, another battle, and neither of them particularly felt like talking. There were sometimes nights like these.
Ahsoka tilted her head up to the sky. Reinforcements would come down later tomorrow—or maybe it was already tomorrow, and the reinforcements would just come down today instead—but for now, the only thing Ahsoka could see were the stars.
"It's clear," she said.
"Hm?"
Ahsoka pointed to the sky. "Colder nights are always clearer," she said. "So you can see more stars. You ever noticed that?"
Rex looked up at the sky too. "Yeah," he said after a while. "Just didn't notice."
"You didn't?"
"Been a little occupied."
Ahsoka dropped her hand on her lap. "Guess so."
Another pause, and then Rex asked, "You know any of the constellations here, kid?"
"No," Ahsoka said ruefully. She tilted her head to the side, following the bright stars with a thumb. "But if you tilt your head a little, that one probably looks like a speeder." She lifted her eyes higher, to another cluster of stars. "And that one kinda looks like…your helmet?"
Rex let out a short laugh. "Can't really see it."
"Well, I think it does," Ahsoka said. She closed one of her eyes. "Yeah, I think it looks like your helmet. So we'll call that constellation the Rex constellation."
"I'm sure that the natives here have another name."
"Maybe," Ahsoka said, dropping her hand back down on her lap. "But I kinda like the Rex constellation a little better."
A silence passed before Rex said, "Well, let's find an Ahsoka constellation then."
A/N: close enough to something wintery, i hope?
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