Anabeth: Advent Calendar 2024

It isn't every day that your Padawan challenges you to a gingerbread house competition, but when he does, you better come prepared. And so, Ana had spent the entire morning conducting research on building gingerbread houses on the holonet. She had basically become an expert on the topic in a matter of hours and was somewhat hopeful the house would at the very least not collapse on her.

Now, she was standing in the kitchen with Petro. They each had an identical gingerbread house kit, as well as extra icing and sweets. "Ready?" Ana asked. "Yep, let's go" Petro replied enthusiastically, rushing in to open his gingerbread house kit.

Ana did the same, carefully using the provided instructions to assemble the house. She found it to be quiet tricky, but with some persistence and determination, she soon had a solid, if not the best looking, foundation to decorate. She proudly admired it for a moment before glancing over to see what Petro was doing. She immediately felt like all her efforts were in vain as her Padawan was somehow in the process of creating a real masterpiece.

Determined to not give up though, she began to stick some sweets on the house. Suddenly, the doorbell rang. Ana quickly went to open the door to reveal Windu. "Ana, I was hoping you would be here. I was..." he trailed off as he realized Ana was covered in spots of icing and sweets.

"I see you two are working hard" He said as he stepped inside, the door closing behind him "Although one of you clearly has a better idea of what they are doing than the other". "Feel free to help, Master. I'm confident I can win against the both of you" Petro chimed in. "Is that so? We'll see about that" Mace rolled up his sleeves and began to help Ana.

But even with Ana and Windu working together, they still were struggling to compete with what Petro was doing. "I can't believe we're losing. And there are two of us and only one of him" Ana remarked. "You mean there are only two of you. I would guess you'd need at least four people to beat me, and even then your chances are slim" Petro joked. Ana and Windu just looked at each other with determination, having the same idea. "I'll call Depa" Windu spoke their thought out loud, making the call as Ana got back to decorating.

It wasn't long before both Depa and Caleb had arrived to help. They both seemed amused by Mace and Ana being bitter about losing to Petro at first, but soon after they had started to help even their competitive side got the better off them.

"I think this is the best we can do. We'll probably just make it worse if we continue" Ana gave her assessment as she took in their gingerbread house a while later. The other members of her team seemed to agree with her as they took a few steps away to look at their work. One glance at Petro's house was all they needed to predict the winner tough.

"How?" Caleb blurted out "It was four against one, and we had three Council members on our team". "We might be Masters when it comes to using the force, but Petro is definitely the only Master here when it comes to gingerbread houses" Ana replied. Petro smiled widely at his clear victory "You guys did pretty good though. And who knows, maybe you'll beat me next year". "Challenge accepted" Windu immediately replied "Now let's just eat our gingerbread house, I think the taste will be by far better than the decoration".