Soon, Love. Probably earlier than they said, too - they've been pretty smart about handling a Sith, they probably padded their estimate.

is that how you handle a sith?

Sooner than expected would definitely not be unappreciated, even if he’s not going to hang any hopes on it.

One way, yeah. Works pretty well, too, so long as you don't get caught slacking.

guess so.

how dangerous are we supposed to be?

I mean - Sith, she shrugs. For most people, 'could kill me by thinking about it too hard' is about all that matters, it won't come up that we're fairly small fry as Sith go.

guess i'd better learn fast.

They'll always be together – it's not like he thinks anyone is likely to catch him by himself, not like 'by himself' even really exists anymore – but if he's going to be a Sith now he'd better be able to back it up.

Sure. Want to try some telekinesis? It'll be easier with this hand anyway, prosthetics interfere a little.

they do?

He calls up what knowledge they have about it.

It seems sort of unfair, in the way most things tend to be.

It is, a little, though it seems like he'll be able to compensate for it once he's had some practice; it has to do with how his presence in the Force will integrate with the prosthetic, treating it as part of him in a way that comes automatically but not quite naturally.

He guesses it's a good thing he still has one hand.

(It's still unfair, sickeningly so, but what can he do about that? Nothing.)

let's try.

Lots of things are unfair. Enough to make it the rule, not the exception. She accepted that years ago.

Anyway. The easiest way to do telekinesis is like this - the hand motion isn't strictly necessary, but it's difficult to direct things without it, and almost impossible at this stage.

...okay. Like this.

He stumbles with it a little the first time. And the second. He learns to follow her patterns more quickly, though, than he could have learned himself.

It doesn't take him long to start moving pillows.

Good job.

Rotating things in midair will be next, she thinks, once he's comfortable with this. Smaller things are a little harder, and fine control, and moving something you can't entirely see, and pulling things apart is more difficult again; maintaining a hold on something while not paying attention to it is its own skill, and a prerequisite for holding multiple things at once; living things are different, too, though not particularly harder in her opinion, except other Sith, who are much harder to pick up - they should go over that at some point, too, the general skill of direct Force-based defense.

He's glad they already have a curriculum worked out.

This feels good. Learning something useful, something that'll keep returning for the rest of his life, however long that is. Something that'll help him in the fight, too – they definitely need to go over defense soon.

(He wonders how far "pulling other Sith apart" is on the list. Do the difficulties multiply?)

It's not impossible, but it's the kind of thing you do when you need to show off how strong you are, more than for utility; he'd need to specialize in telekinesis to be able to pull it off reliably. Solo, anyway, having a partner opens up some options for them.

...specializing. That implies some things. What can you specialize in.

He'll put aside the brief thought of peeling Him apart.

Just about anything, really. It's like any other kind of skill: the more you put into an area, the more you can do with it. She's specialized in senses, personally, and maintaining Force effects around herself without conscious attention - that one is a little unusual to have at all, but she needed it, since she uses a Force effect to be able to hear and speak, usually.

- that thing He did with the hallucinations is another one; that's a very advanced form of mind trick.

...yes. 

That thing.

(He really should have known what was going to happen sooner.)

He doesn't know what he would want to focus on, exactly. Maybe it's too much to be trying to decide now – he's getting too far ahead of himself, trying to plan all this out. He just wants to be at the part where they're stronger, already, where he doesn't feel so exposed every time there's even the shadow of a threat.

Yeah. (Snuggle.)

Well, she's strong, they've got that going for them. And he'll get there; he's picking things up very quickly.

She is. They do.

He looks over her shoulder and tries to pick up a chair. It wobbles into the air.

Good, good.