Anakin was crouched on the ground, he was reaching between a pair of chair legs for a ball just out of his reach, and if he just stretched harder he could just-
He turned his head and looked up when he heard the woman speaking to him.
"Oh- thank you," he said, standing up and giving up on the ball under the table. He accepted the ball she was offering him and looked back towards the direction the children had left.
"Maybe. Probably not." He shook his head, though he wasn't trying to be negative. "I don't remember much from when I was that age. I mostly remember playing in dirt and, uh, electrocuting myself- On accident-" okay, this stranger didn't need to know this stuff so he moved on quickly. "But," he conceded congenially, "they'll remember I wasn't mean to them. They were just curious. They didn't mean any harm with their questions. Usually only adults are jerks."