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Ekkreth, huh. No hits with the Jedi, but she still has Imperial databases. She can search for a Sith called Ekkreth.

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Nope, nope, nope--wait, there.

A few decades ago a Sith called Darth Svahe found a force sensitive teenager named Ekkreth Ironstar on the planet Tatooine and took her as an apprentice; about a decade after that she killed him and became Darth Magnus. She's been missing for about a year now.

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Sounds like a hit. She switches cantinas and starts prodding for recent sightings.

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Recent sightings: exist. Some of them are probably false but not most of them; she isn't going to much of anything in the way of effort to hide. Or to set herself up as ruler of Tatooine, for some reason.

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Well, once she has enough data to narrow down the location and/or plot a trajectory, she can go see for herself.

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Narrowing down her location isn't terribly difficult. She's living in this other city over there. She may or may not have married the Jedi(?).

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A trip for tomorrow, seeing as it's getting rather late.

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If she's in the right place in the right time she can find Ekkreth walking down the street like a normal person, going to market and buying produce and things, with a baby in a sling on her front.

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And quite by coincidence, here's another perfectly normal person doing perfectly normal people things in a fashion that just so happens to be a slightly offset version of Ekkreth's path.

Another person might be following with the expectation of finding Ekkreth's house or catching her alone, but not this person. This person has no intentions beyond doing their daily shopping.

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Ekkreth speaks the still-mostly-unfamiliar language to people and buys food and affectionately addresses the baby as Amaleia.

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Someone else might be eavesdropping. But this person has their own concerns, which have nothing to do with Ekkreth.

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Apparently the baby is hers; at one point it starts crying and Ekkreth opens her robe to breastfeed.

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Perfectly normal people doing perfectly normal people things. Apparently.

Another person, more familiar with the warlike nature of Sith and Jedi, might have been more surprised.

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Ekkreth finishes buying things and goes home.

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A shady person would take the opportunity as they walked past to case the place, looking for entrances and exits, structural vulnerabilities, and cues to interior layout. Such a person is, of course, not this one.

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It's a pretty normal little house, actually.

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Hm.

She returns to her ship, and pulls down all the information she can find on Darths Svahe and Magnus.

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Darth Svahe was primarily research-focused; he did all kinds of nasty experiments into inducing Force sensitivity. Darth Magnus was better than average in terms of how she treated her subordinates, and otherwise--very much what one would expect a Sith of her rank to be. Too much so, almost; if one had reason one might almost think it was on purpose.

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The next day, a perfectly normal person knocks on the perfectly normal door of Ekkreth's perfectly normal house.

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The Jedi(?) opens the door. "Hello?"

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"Hello! I'm a fan of your work with the Cartel. I was wondering if you had a moment to talk about it?"

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"Ah. Yes."

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"Can I come in?"

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"Alright." He opens the door and steps aside.

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"Thank you." She walks in.

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