Stranded... out there

[stockingfeats]

Disaster. Your plane crashed, your boat holed, your guide has left you stranded in the depths of the wilderness. Certainly, your surroundings are beautiful in their way, but we all know that nature is long on majesty and short on mercy. And unlike those guys on the Discovery Channel, there isn't a Motel 6 around you can pop into.

1. Desert. Whether it's cacti and hardpan, or dunes and sidewinders, you'd better find an oasis fast. And take care... it gets cold at night.
   
2. Jungle. Ah, the rainforest, that thriving hotspot of biodiversity! ...and just as many toxic compounds as there are species.
   
3. Tundra. Doesn't matter if it's Farenheit or Celsius, the thermometer is too many digits in the negative. But hey, at least there might be penguins.
   
4. Mountains. You might be hungry and windburnt, but the view is unmatched. Watch that first step, it's a doozy!
   
5. Savanna. Lions and termites and baobab, oh my... Never mind looking for food, you might be food if you aren't careful. And stay out of trenches with too many wildebeest.
   
6. Deep forest. The woods are quiet, dark, and deep. Do you know how to tell edible puffballs from Destroying Angel? Better learn quick.
   
7. Deep space. Maybe the ship has lost its engines and is drifting towards nowhere fast, or maybe it's a space station long abandoned, but you know what they say--no one can hear you scream.
   
8. Island. Let's face it, it would be nice, if it had been your idea to be here. Where did the Swiss Family Robinson find all that stuff, anyway?
   
9. Motel. Never mind, there is a Motel 6. No, wait--Motel 5? Oh boy. You really wish they hadn't left the light on, because nothing it reveals is something you want to see.
   

Problems:

1. Weather: It's turning for the worse and you need a place to hide.
   
2. Hostile wildlife: Whether it's looking for lunch or wants you off its patch, this is going to be a problem.
   
3. No luggage ...or anything else, including food, water, or shelter.
   
4. Hurt: Perfect time to practice making splints out of sticks!
   
5. Other! Listen, it's a big world, it has lots of ways to make you miserable.
   

adapted from the Lost in the wilderness meme @ memebells

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[jedied]

He's different than she'd expected. Younger, for one. Maybe the Force lets you look how you wanted; she doesn't imagine he'd choose to manifest as Vader. But the effect is a little strange, and more than a little sad; she can see the person he'd been before the Dark took him, as clearly as she'd been able to see fleeting glimpses of the person Ben Solo would've been.

She can't bear to linger on that thought, so she drags her small pack of supplies in front of her and begins to sort through it for anything that might make her time here more comfortable. In the very worst-case scenario she imagines BB-8 will come looking for her or comm for help, but the last thing she needs at this very second is a small excitable droid to call the attention of whatever large predator is out there.

"All right, then, Anakin."

She offers a tiny smile, still tinged with sadness she can't quite shake.

"Is there a reason it was you? I would've thought -- I mean, you never knew me."

She'd have expected Leia; she'd been closest to her in life and she tended to be the most practical of the lot. Luke might've turned up. And she can't quite bury the question beneath the question -- why isn't it ever Ben?

[perfectlight]

When he first appeared in the Force, when he appeared to Luke, he'd looked as he had before Mustafar. There had been something of a start when he'd realized it, even as he'd been caught by Obi-Wan as he'd last seen him.

"I didn't. But after being on Exogol for the third time, it isn't quite as easy for me to walk away from you." For many reasons.

Luke, he knew was studying. Leia was hanging near her son, to the point of threatening others who can near him as he gathered his strength. Ben...Ben didn't have the ability to appear yet.

"He'll come to you when he can Rey." He can easily guess the person she wants, and he's also aware his grandson frets over Rey being alone - which is also why Anakin was hovering some.

[jedied]

Rey has the grace to look slightly embarrassed by how easy she'd been to read, and busies herself with finding the little first aid kit she'd tucked into her bag. She's not actively bleeding, which is good, but she'd like to be a little more certain of her ability to run and climb if she truly has to.

"I don't mean to sound ungrateful. I just miss him."

It seems longer than it's been; only a few months now since he'd disappeared before she could even react. I'll always be with you, he'd said, but for some time now she's wondered if that was a lie told as a kindness to give her the strength to leave. Sometimes she thought she felt a flicker of something just after waking from sleep, but it was never enough to be certain. It puts something at ease within her to know that he's safe.

[perfectlight]

That she only had a small kit - small enough he doubted he had stims or bacta infusions made Anakin frown a little.

"You don't, and it wasn't a chastisement. I know what it's like, to watch someone you deeply love, no matter how you love them, fade to nothingness and everythingness before your eyes. I know the aching and the hole it leaves behind." Obi-Wan and he didn't quite have a dyad, but they could have and it means he gets it, really. "I'm certainly not the one to criticize you for missing him either."

"It takes training to appear like this, and time. Dreams are easier, they tend to come first. He's not ready yet. But soon, child." It's little comfort, he supposes, but it's all he can give. Ben had been too weakened to even be helped as Obi-Wan had helped him, even if several of them had been willing.

"Do you have a glow rod? Cooking stone? A knife?" Anakin prodded gently, reminding him in some ways of when Ahsoka was young and learning practical field survival.

[jedied]

She has more supplies back on the Falcon, but she hadn't brought a lot with her to explore this area because she hadn't expected to be away more than an hour or two. There hadn't been a good place to land it over here, and that's probably a blessing since she didn't need to have her ship banged up as much as she was.

Still, his questions shake her out of her melancholy musings enough to start digging through her pack for the rest of her supplies. She does in fact have a glow rod, though given that she also has a lightsaber, it's one of the ones that you snap in half that can't be reused. Still, it'll keep smaller animals away and keep her from having to stumble around in the dark. She sets it to the side along with the water canteen she's brought with her. That'll be of more immediate need than the ration bars she's got in there, or the small knife she's got in there for cutting things smaller than she'd want to use a lightsaber to hack through.

"No cooking stone; I do know how to make a fire if I need to. I wasn't planning on being out of reach of the Falcon."

She does, however, have a small square blanket that can be sat on or wrapped around herself as needed, which she unfolds and pulls around her shoulders preemptively. She knows from experience it'll get colder before she's ready to leave.

[perfectlight]

"You'll need a nest before you'll need a cover - the ground will be far too cold for you to sit on." The rocky shelter was roughly trapezoid-shaped, although grant it, the shortest side was shorter than the length of his forearm. It was also heavily covered in vines, which would, in Anakin's mind, make it a good place for a fire.

"What do you know of the vegetation here?"