Elesse is here, if she wants to bounce any ideas off her.

This is a very convenient way to do it, too!

She's a little bit tired, but - more emotionally than intellectually, and she snuggles more into Elesse and pushes harder on the creative ideas part of her brain, letting a hundred little flickers of designs flit across her mind.

Elesse will occasionally comment on this or that concept, but she mostly just lets Anakin flow.

The comments help! But Anakin's brain is steadily getting tired enough to have trouble actually focusing; she starts drifting more fully into a daydream sort of state, plays of ideas without any real thought to analyze. Some of the flickers start gelling on their own, then, so long as she doesn't try to notice if they're at all realistic. (She can sort them tomorrow, probably, right now she's cozy - and presumably Elesse will remember anything interesting she forgets if she falls asleep, which is another very good benefit here.)

Maybe it's bedtime?

Probably, yeah.

...Does Anakin have to sleep in her own bunk? (There's a tight little burst of half-thoughts - she really doesn't want to stop snuggling, sometimes if she gets a lot of premonition-y type stuff she'll then get nightmares, lots of upsetting things happened and she doesn't want to be alone really, also she is cozy and doesn't wanna move. But also she's thirteen, not a kid... And at this point Elesse definitely knows about Anakin's crush on her which is very awkward except for how since Elesse extra definitely knows now and hasn't reacted poorly it isn't that awkward.)

Special circumstances apply, this once. They can share.

Good!!! (The extra exclamation points here translate to a warm fondness and sleepy gratitude for Elesse's everything.)

Elesse ushers them off to bed. They can talk more in the morning.

Yeah.

She flops on top of Elesse, snuggling, and drifts off to sleep soon enough.

(Her brain does, in fact, try to have nightmares, up until it notices she's too warm and cozy and content and safe for that nonsense. Still, she wakes halfway up a few times before settling back down.)

Elesse is there all night long.

In the morning, they're well on their way back to Coruscant. "Is there anything about the visions you want to talk through, Anakin?"

...Talking is harder than just having Elesse in all her thoughts. (Sadly she would now have to actually say this. And also probably there's a point where Elesse being in all her thoughts would get unhealthy or something. Possibly while Anakin's thinking about the sets of them who were very clearly in relationships.)

"I - yeah, I think so..." She pauses, struggling for words.

"You seemed... particularly upset by the- dark version of me."

"...Yeah."

"I mean - the second one, the kind of echo of her Elesse felt kinda dark and that wasn't actually upsetting on its own, but with - that other one - "

"I felt - threatened, I guess. And there was - other unsettling stuff? I think the me was... Actually the most unsettling, but - I wasn't there very long, so I don't know what impressions I was getting?"

"That wasn't me, Anakin. It won't ever be me."

"...How do you know?"

"Because I care about you. I care enough to divert myself before I get to that point with you."

Lean.

"Thanks."

"And - I'll try to let you know if things are going - to a place I don't like, if you're acting like you're - not diverting yourself? In case you don't - notice."

"Please do. This will be best faced as a team."

"We'll be here for each other, then."

"Teacher and padawan."

"But always a team."

"Always."

Giggle!

Then: "I'm also a bit worried about that last you? The one my age..."

"Yes. I am- not sure what sort of circumstances could conspire to produce that."