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in which force ghost fate!Anakin finds herself very rudely in canakin's body
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She grabs the pad and sits down on the bed with it as she powers it on. 

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The pad has a lockscreen showing the date and time- 16:34 on 13:9:14.  When she unlocks it, she immediately sees a report of a recent battle, seemingly sent to this pad for review, and a row of files in quickswap along the side, with labels indicating that they're more recent battles, and one just labeled "Cryssul Mission".

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That's... Twenty two years before the Battle of Yavin, by the new calendar. About four months into the start of the Clone Wars. 

She pulls up 'Cryssul Mission.'

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The document informs her that the planet of Cryssul is home to a ancient force temple, believed to hold powerful force artifacts.  They have intelligence indicating the Seperatists are seeking out those artifacts.  The mission, assigned to General Skywalker and the 501st battalion, is to extract the force artifacts within and, if nessecary, hold off the seperatist forces.  This is followed by coordinates, descriptions of the temple, and a few maps of the planet.

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Yeah that looks like the planet she was just on. 

So, she has an excuse to stay here and keep looking - any indication of timeline on this mission, like when she's expected to report back? Also, how long have her forces been here? 

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According to the mission brief, it's expected that this mission should take no more than 4 days, unless there is an unexpectedly strong Separatist presence, in which case a report is expected in order to let the higher-ups know their information source is likely compromised.  The brief is dated from 3 days ago, but it's unclear when they arrived relative to receiving it.

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She wouldn't call this especially strong, nor compromised information. 

Militaries don't move in a single day. They've likely been here two days at most - and she can get records of what they've searched so far, she bets. Get an idea from that. 

Doesn't give her a lot of time to trouble shoot, though. 

(Her body is crashing, trying to drag her down with it.)

(Anakin fights it - or tries to. She falls asleep with the holopad still turned on.)

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She dreams.

It's horrible. She hadn't dreamed as Vader; she'd been drugged to sleep each night, then.

She'd dreamed as Anakin, but the worst dreams had been during parts of life she's mostly forgotten.

She dreams of the Clone Wars. Of the end of it.

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She wakes up.

She hasn't slept long, and she feels exhausted, but - more settled in this stupid body, at least.

She spends a while staring at the ceiling, trying to convince herself she has a mystery to unravel and a war to manage.

Eventually, her body starts protesting.

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Horrible body things should not happen to her. It's unfair. And - it's the wrong body, a constant mismatch in her head that makes her feel like she's started dissociating again.

She deals with the worst body things with her eyes closed and her senses focused very, very firmly on trying to figure out where she'll need to go to eat food. At least she got a good enough idea of the layout - basically the same as in her war - to mostly just need to confirm where the mess is...

She heads down to eat about six hours after she went to her room.

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One of the clones comes over shortly after Anakin has gotten food.

"Sir, the prisoner is ready for interrogation at your convenience.  Is the mission on the planet completed?"

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"Thank you," she says, then - "There's still some things I want to check out a bit more thoroughly, so long as we can spare the time."

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