"Okay." She sounds dubious. "I don't think Deskyl will care about that."

"Okay."

"Is it okay if I do that now?"

"Yeah."

She does. It takes a few trips for her to bring everything in.

Peka checks the remaining houses. Apologizes to her CO. Declares the rest of the village clean.

Greys troop in a couple hours later and divvy up the houses. They let Peka have the one that there was a body in, since they can't call a cleaning crew.

Deskyl wakes up when the greys come in, spends a few minutes listening to them, and rolls over and goes back to sleep.

"I'd like to know more about the war, if you don't mind talking about it," DZ says, when Peka seems to be done with work for the moment.

"It's about the food, our country is mad at this country for letting reds touch the food they sell. Because people mostly won't eat it."

"Okay. Is there more that we should know about any of that? It sounds very strange."

"Reds are unclean. Like dead bodies or sewage."

"All right. I'll ask Deskyl about it, I guess, I've never heard of something like that before."

"Maybe aliens don't have that."

She nods. "I would know about it if humans did, I think. I don't know as much about other species."

"There's lots of kinds?"

"Yes, hundreds. But I was made to work with Sith, and Sith are almost all human, so I only really know about humans and a few other important ones."

"What's a Sith?"

"Sith are one of the kinds of people who can do things with the Force, like reading minds or moving things without touching them."

"So like a wizard. Okay."

"Sure."

"Why are you here?"

"The people who were hurting her came to take her again, and she panicked and brought us here. It's not something Sith can usually do, and I don't know if she chose the place somehow - I haven't had a chance to talk to her yet, she fell asleep almost as soon as we got here."

"It's an odd place to pick. Anybody would've been real excited to have you. Everybody wants to go to other planets, more than anything."

"She wouldn't have wanted to go someplace where being there would hurt people, though. And that matters, with the Force."

"People wanna invent robots to do our jobs and then they won't have to have us around any more."