Anabeth: Advent Calendar 2024

Today was the day of the Order's end of year party. The council, as well as anyone else who wanted to join had gathered in the main training room, where a small stage, as well as many chairs and tables had been set up for the occasion. The murmuring in the room quiet down and disappeared, as Windu took the stage to begin the festivities.

"Hello everyone, it's so good to see so many gathered here. What a year we have had. The war has finally ended. The Confederacy and the Republic are peacefully co-existing and building diplomatic relations. And we as well are building bridges and redefining who we are with the opening of our embassies on Raxus and Mandalore.

We live in an era of change. Change that we must embrace and adapt to so that we may emerge stronger. We must keep taking the right path, even if it might not be the easiest. Be assured, as long as we all work together to support each other, we can step up to any such challenge.

Now, to celebrate another successful year coming to an end, some of you have prepared some little performances. I believe we will start with our Youngling choir singing some Christmas carols".

The Younglings took the stage, singing a few Christmas carols. Next, none other than Quinlan was announced. He casually strode up to the stage in true Quinlan Vos fashion. Grabbed the mic and pulled out a pad from his robes.

"Alright everyone. I'm going to be telling you all some Christmas jokes today. Let's start with an easy one: What does Santa use to measure? ... A Santameter!". Ana and Obi-Wan face palmed in union as the rest of the crowd smiled awkwardly. Quinlan did not seem disheartened though and just continued. "What does an elf study at school? ... The elfabet!" once again, there were many awkward smiles in the crowd, as well as one or two small chuckles.

"What do you call Santa when he stops moving? ... Santa Pause!" Anakin as well as a few others actually laughed at this joke. "And now lastly, my favorite one. What do you call and elf that sing? ... A wrapper!" Once again, a few laughs could be heard, but many awkward smiles were also still seen.

"Thank you everyone. Now, for the final act of the night, I'm pleased to announce: Anakin Skywalker" Quinlan finished his performance. "What do you think he' going to do?" Ana quietly asked Obi-Wan as Anakin made his way towards the stage. "I don't know, but it probably can't get worse than Quinlan" he just replied.

"Alright, last but not least. Now, reading Christmas stories is part of the holiday season. I have not actually brought a Christmas story today, but I think you'll find this much better anyway. You see, this is something I had found among Master Qui-Gon's old stuff. It's one of his old diaries, the one he wrote during his mission to Mandalore to be exact.

I'll be reading some passages from it today in order to give all of you an answer to a question I believe has been asked by most of you. That question being 'How exactly did Master Kenobi end of with Duchess of Mandalore'. And you can all send your congratulations to them by the way, they got engaged two days ago".

The room erupted into a round of applause as Obi-Wan put his head in his hands, probably wishing to just disappear into thin air at this moment. "Let me start then" Anakin announced "Day 3: I have already lost all hope that the Duchess and Obi-Wan will have a civil relationship. Left my room this morning to witness Satine throwing one of her boots at Obi-Wan. Don't know how that happened, and don't think I want to know. Injuries were thankfully avoided, but they are not speaking currently.

Day 11: Woke up to an argument. I guess they are speaking again. I would go and see what the fuss is about, but truthfully, I think it might be best if I don't know.

Day 43: Today was another drama filled day. After Obi-Wan had neutralized the Bounty hunter after us, Satine kept calling him vile and uncultured for it. Obi-Wan did not take kindly to that, so a name calling battle ensued. I truthfully felt too amazed by the insults they could come up with to to stop them.

Day 65: Dear diary, today I think I have seen it all. He dropped her. Like fully dropped her after tripping on a tree root. He was terribly sorry about it, but the Duchess was angry at him all day. You could hardly blame her, the cut she got on her arm is sure to leave a scar.

Day 137: Today is the first day they had a friendly conversation. I'm as surprised as you are. Let's hope it lasts.

Day 152: I think they finally made peace. Satine made breakfast for Obi-Wan this morning, and later on in the day he tried to teach her a meditation technique. Praying this isn't just a phase.

Day 187: Woke up in the middle of the night to the voices of Obi-Wan and Satine. I thought something had happened, but seems they were just enjoying some late night conversation. Just snuck off to bed again quietly".

"And I think I'm going to leave it here. I hope this was somewhat fun for all of you and shed some light on the mystery. Have a merry Christmas!" And with that Anakin left the stage. "I don't know if I should be angry at him for sharing all off that, or thankful for picking the moments that made us look least bad" Obi-Wan mumbled. "There is worse than you guys insulting each other, you dropping her, and Satine throwing a shoe at you?" Ana asked in disbelief. "I'm afraid so" Obi-Wan just sighed.