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Their little bit of pastoral relaxation can't last forever. They hike and fish and tell ghost stories around the fire, and too soon, Satine has to go back to Mandalore, and Cody, Rex, and Obi-Wan have to return to Coruscant. They part with soft kisses and fond words, and promises that they'll see one another again. Satine does not ask that they come to Mandalore with her; they do not ask she forsake her people. All of them are bound first and foremost to their duty. That does not preclude them from missing one another.

Satine comms to let them know when she's safely reached Sundari. They comm to let her know they've returned to the Temple.

Even once in the Temple, Obi-Wan and Cody and Rex aren't constantly in one another's presence. They lived together, but they still had missions, duties to complete. Cody soon settled into regular shifts as an instructor, teaching hand to hand to Jedi and clone younglings alike. Rex accepted more varied tasks, some times instructing on blaster safety, other times minding a creche of younglings.

When Satine commed, she often started her call: "I was just thinking about you, and wanted to share-"

They listened, and replied, sharing tales of their day to day lives. Rex had learned a new recipe, he told her. Cody had joined the choir. Obi-Wan was thinking about taking on another Padawan, a sweet natured twi'lek child who loved plants and painting and obstacle courses.

Obi-Wan, Rex, and Cody commed Satine just as often. "I was just thinking about you," they would say, and share with her how the lilies were blooming in the Room of a Thousand Fountains, and Ahsoka had passed her Knighthood trials and was going on solo missions, and the delightful pictures the class of crechelings had made during their art period with Rex.

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