"So, uh…" Anakin said, looking around him. "This is weird."

"Is there something wrong, Master Jedi?" the Kaminoan asked, concerned. "I was going to welcome you to Tipoca City."

"Oh, I'm actually not a Master," Anakin replied. "My Master's busy, I'm just…"

He shook his head. "Sorry about that, it's very unprofessional of me. I know I'm supposed to be professional, but being around this much water is very odd for me."

"Being around water is odd for you?" the Kaminoan repeated. "...is there an alternative? I know Kamino is an unusually wet planet, but I did not think the difference was that stark."

"I'm from a world where there just… isn't water," Anakin explained. "The only way we got water to drink was to pull it out of the air, and there wasn't enough to go around."

Then he frowned slightly. "Actually, uh… come to think of it, it isn't all that far from here to my homeworld… do you think I could ship some water over there?"

"That is an… odd request," the Kaminoan admitted. "But I must admit, we do have more water than we know what to do with. Perhaps we could discuss something like that after our main business is completed."

"Sure," Anakin agreed. "So, where do we get started?"

"I will take you to Lama Su," the Kaminoan decided. "He will show you the current state of progress."

Anakin nodded, absently, mostly thinking about showing up at Tatooine with a freighter full of water.

"How often does Anakin go on missions without you?" Padme asked, curious.

"It happens, sometimes," Obi-Wan replied. "Increasingly often these days, actually. Anakin is approaching the point where he will have the chance to become a Jedi Knight, and… I worry about him a little."

"Is that something a Jedi does?" Padme said.

"All the time," Obi-Wan replied. "But right now, Senator, your safety is the highest priority."

He frowned. "Though I must admit, I was expecting there to have been some kind of assassination attempt by this point."

"You almost sound disappointed," Padme suggested.

"No, no, it's pattern recognition," Obi-Wan replied, firmly. "You see, my missions with Anakin so rarely go smoothly. And if this mission is going smoothly, where the biggest danger we've had to deal with is mosquitos, then I dread to think about what is going on with Anakin."

There was a beep.

"...like that, for example," Obi-Wan added, taking his comlink out of his pocket. "What is it, Anakin?"

"So, first I want to say, I didn't set out to do this, Master," Anakin said.

"...oh dear," Obi-Wan sighed. "That's never a good sign. So, what is it that you didn't set out to do?"

"So it turns out that Kamino was building an army for the Jedi," Anakin said. "Also, it's a really wet, flooded planet, they actually have too much water, I didn't know that was possible! But I said that Tatooine had too little water, and since they had all those giant ships anyway I thought some of them could be used for transporting lots of water…"

"Sorry, Anakin, Kamino was building an army for the Jedi?" Obi-Wan repeated, a little incredulously. "That seems like the most important part of the situation."

"No, no, the most important part is that some guy called Darth Tyrannus hired this bounty hunter called Jango Fett to be the clone template," Anakin said. "And get this, he's the one who killed that bounty hunter we chased, and things got a bit complicated… anyway, I went over the technical details and the clones have this weird chip in them and I think Chancellor Valorum might have been trying to assassinate the Jedi because the chip would have let the Chancellor tell the clones to kill the Jedi… obviously I told the Kaminoans to take that bit out because we didn't need it and it's way too much like slavery if you ask me. Anyway, uh, I've got the clones shipping water from Kamino to Tatooine for now, the Kaminoans are actually totally okay with it because they've got too much water, and I rescued my mother, too! I told you she was in danger!"

Obi-Wan took several seconds to process that particular bit of Skywalkerness.

Then he processed it a second time.

"…you have the clones… shipping water to Tatooine," he repeated.

"Yeah, it's going to break the Hutt control over water production and transportation for anything above the subsistence level," Anakin said. "And it's going to make Tatooine a way better place-"

"I have to interrupt you there, Anakin," Obi-Wan said. "You said you rescued your mother? That's very impressive, but you didn't tell me she was in danger."

"I did!" Anakin objected.

"You said you were dreaming about her," Obi-Wan pointed out. "That does not mean you were dreaming about her being in danger. That's quite different, Anakin, you must remember to use the right words if you want me to know something."

"...oh," Anakin said, and Obi-Wan could hear the shrug. "Well, anyway, I think there might be some kind of Sith plot involved too because of the whole Darth thing. Do you think Chancellor Valorum was a Sith?"

"I see what you mean," Padme admitted.

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