"Want to learn? It's a handy skill to have."

"I would, yeah."

"We can pick up some books on it."

"Is it anything like piloting a speeder?"

"A little bit; mostly not, though. It's much more indirect."

Nod.

"You'll be fine. It's not like engineering, but if you can do engineering you should be able to pick it up no problem."

"I'm not worried, just curious."

"Well, couple days. Or I can have Daisy check if there are any books in town when she goes back in."

"That'd be nice."

She nods, and notes down a few more boxes in silence.

"Any other skills you'd like to pick up?"

"Learning to use the Force is probably enough to start with."

"Fair enough."

"What's the usual way to teach it?"

(She's going to learn how to use the Force! Part of her is doing completely undignified cartwheels inside her head, but she manages to keep her outwards reaction to a brief grin.)

"About how we've been doing it, plus meditation exercises - the meditation exercises are pretty Sithy, though, I'm still thinking about how to do them so they aren't. We can do the basics without them, anyway."

"Sithy?"

"Yeah. The Sith way of using the Force relies a lot on integrating it with our emotions; that gives us a stronger connection. Makes us less stable, though, too; it's not a one-way connection. And even things that can be done using neutral techniques, we tend to learn by seeing them through that lens to start with." She shrugs. "I'm sure there's another way of doing it, I just don't know what it is yet."

"When I... listen to the Force more than usual, is that anything like meditation? It seems similar, from when I've watched you do it, it might be possible to create something from that."

"Likely, yeah. I'm honestly not thrilled with that, either, though, if it is what it looks like - granted I haven't looked very closely, but you seem to be kind of losing yourself to it."

"It's the Force, I can't not listen."

"Mmhmm. But you can disagree, that's important. It's not always right."

"Not - always right. But..." She shifts uncomfortably.

"But it usually is. And it's hard to ignore, I know. But you're still allowed to be yourself; it's important to keep that. Otherwise, well - mad bats are a Sith problem, you won't have that one, but it's the same kind of thing."

But it's so easy, to let the Force carry her; easy and safe and everything that trying to interact with the world is not.

"I'm more me with the Force than without it."

She shrugs. "If you're happy that way, and it's not causing you any problems, I'm not going to complain about it. But I want to be careful, if we're going to try doing it more."