"That's impressive. I'll probably take you up on it."

Nod. "That comes from the engineering side, mostly - we also did recommendations, people would get in touch wanting a new saber design that'd work with their favorite techniques, or a special saber and then help taking advantage of it. So I don't know all of them, but I have enough to figure out how to learn."

"Neat."

"Mmhmm. And I can do a custom saber design for you, too, but honestly it's better to stick with what you're familiar with unless you have some specific need it's not meeting."

"No. He was a shit teacher in every other respect, but he let me build my own saber."

"Of course. Even if I did one for you it'd only be the design, it'd hardly be an upgrade otherwise."

"Of course."

Nod.

"I think that's about it - there's some inheritance stuff in there that I should make sure you know about, but that's more for when we're ready to discuss strategy and tactics, it can wait."

"Alright."

Breakfast.

"How's the guest house? I know it's a little sparsely furnished, at least by my standards; is there anything you're going to want if you're going to be here a while?"

"I'm not used to having any stuff I can't carry on my back. I think we'll be okay."

"All right."

"Jedi are trained to live without unnecessary indulgences."

Nod. "I'd heard."

"Honestly I'm not sure either of us would know what to ask for."

"More storage, more seating? I can't give you a full kitchen without upgrading my generator to power it, but you're probably going to get a refrigerator and a hot plate in the next batch of things from town, I could prioritize that if it bugs you not to have it."

"Not terribly."

"Okay. Well, if anything comes to mind, I've got a bit of a budget set aside for it."

"Thank you."

Nod.

Ekkreth continues studying the notes.

Eventually she comes to Pradnakt and says, "I think I understand the lightning fairly well, but it would help to see a demonstration."

"Sure." She puts aside the machine she's been working on and heads outside.

It's not hard, not for someone used to Sithy ways of handling the force, but there are details that don't translate to words very well.

Ooh. Ekkreth pays close attention.

Lightning! Lightning powered with different emotions, lightning powered less with emotion and more with pure Force, underpowered lightning, a few varieties of poorly controlled lightning to show off what not to do. Then she moves into special effects - you don't want to screw around with lightning that's carrying an effect, generally, since if you lose control the effect hits you - from easiest to hardest: extra pain, extra burning, kinetic force, aging, and disintegration.

"Do you want to learn to color it, too? It's not useful, exactly, but it can be intimidating."

"Oh, yes."