"I can likely ask them to come closer if we find some," Obi-Wan says thoughtfully, looking up at the sun through the trees. The leaves are such a brilliant, vivid green, so like the vegetation on Naboo. If there is anything Obi-Wan misses from his life before Darrow, it would be the ability to see other worlds, other planets, to engage with other cultures, learn their languages and their ways.

Still, there is plenty to learn here. Plenty to explore.

"Thus far my connection to animals doesn't seem at all inhibited in Darrow," he continues. "The animals themselves are different from the ones I know and I do miss seeing varactyls more than I imagined I might, but in general, the animals here still have that same connection to me through the Force. I'm glad for it. I think I'd feel quite lost without that."