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[darkforcerising]

[The image is shaky as Anakin props the phone up. Once it's in the right spot Anakin steps back until he's in view about waist high on up.

He looks really excited.]

So get this! I noticed I was moving my pen on my desk with my mind yesterday at work! So all last night and all this morning I've been practicing this.

[He lifts up his left hand - real hand - and he's holding a tennis ball. At first, but then he opens his fingers and the ball slowly rises, when it's about six inches about his hand, it starts spinning slowly on a tilted axis like a mini-planet.]

It totally my mind- see-

[The ball pauses its spin and drops to Anakin's hand. He takes it with his right hand and the ball repeats its maneuver. Rising and then spinning on a tilted axis- though this time it's spinning in the opposite direction from before.]

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[neverjedi]

"I'm glad you told me." He means that, completely and totally. "And I'm glad having someone hear you helps." He's heard of some of Anakin's other encounters and they frustrate and upset him.

[darkforcerising]

"Ya," Anakin shrugged. "Talking does that." If you trusted someone.

He then looked down at Ben's skates.

"Why are you being so weird on your skates?"

[neverjedi]

He still wishes he could do more, but is smart enough to recognize that being there, listening, and caring was all he could do--

and also that it helped.

He looked down when Anakin did and then back up with a laugh. "They're new and really stiff. My ankles don't want to bed at all."

[darkforcerising]

Anakin thought about saying more. But stopped himself, he didn't want to push it by dumping too much on Ben.

"Huh," Anakin said, looking down at his skates. "I guess it makes sense they don't all come like this. How long does it take to break them in?"

[neverjedi]

He gave Anakin a quizzical look, but he wasn't sure he could push Anakin so he just went with what was asked. "Depends on how much time I spend in them. Usually about a week they're pretty good."

[darkforcerising]

"Does it hurt?" Anakin asked. Because they had been skating for a while and he could be done.

[neverjedi]

"Nah." Because he's fucked up, but still. "You wanna go grab some coffee at my place. See the cat for a while?"

[darkforcerising]

Anakin smiled, nodded, "Ya, that sounds good." He'd almost backed out, out of fear that he was imposing too much on Ben. But Ben had been the one to ask, clearly Anakin's self-doubt was misplaced if Ben was the one asking.

He let Ben take the lead off the ice.