"After lunch. He is coming here from far away."

"What time is it, anyway? I haven't seen a thing for telling the time yet."

"It's about 25? There are 30 hours in a cycle. When the time is 0 and 10 and 20 hours, someone walks by the rooms where people sleep and plays music really loud." She mimes playing some sort of glockenspiel. "They don't do that where your room is, but they could do it if you want that? Oh, and I think they know when to play music because a bowl of water fills up from a small spigot."

"Huh. When is zero, I guess it's when the sun is highest?"

"Huh? Oh, at home your planet spins? This planet doesn't." If he's from the past, which she's not at all sure of, it must be the really distant past! 

"A cycle is the amount of time where it feels good to sleep once each cycle."

"Yeah, most species like to live on planets that spin." Several points in the 'someone's secret project' bucket, why would you pick a tidally locked planet if you weren't hiding from absolutely everyone. "That's probably the same as the cycles at home, the species here look similar to [foreign-]humans in the Force and my home planet has a [foreign-]human type cycle."

Oup, dangerous subject. "That must make things complicated. Do you want to walk more? Do you want to go up to the surface?"

'most species'!? So what else besides 'humans' then? And they don't have species magic? What... are they for then?

"I might want to do that later, I want to go back to the room and talk to you about something right now. Alone," he adds, directing it at the musicians, "but thank you, the music has been very good."

That's kinda concerning.

On the upside, he's probably only upset with her in particular, not anyone else.

He's not in a hurry, on the way back, and carefully keeps his concern out of his body language.

When they're back in the room, he sits crosslegged on the bed and gestures for Mirana to sit as well. "How much do you know about your Jedi? Do you know why they're here? Do you know how many there are, or if they have other people working with them?"

She bounces on the chair nervously. 

"I don't know much. He's been here for a long time, at least twelve years. He walks around and sometimes sings or tells stories. He's probably walked all the way around the planet several times, but I don't know for certain and I don't think anyone does - he's hard to find. 

I think there's only one, but I guess there could be more than one and I might not know? I don't know what he looks like, other than kind of like you.

Probably lots of musicians would like to follow him around, but I've never heard of that happening."

Lots of... musicians? ...oh, because she thinks the Force is music-related. And/or the guy has a coincidental hobby. That's not the weirdest part, though. "He walks?"

"That's what people say, since he doesn't have a bicycle or anything? But I suppose he might use the Force..."

"No, the Force isn't good for that." It's not surprising that she doesn't know much, with most likely only one Jedi on the planet, but what she's saying doesn't add up at all. "Do you know anything else about him? Anything at all - something strange is going on here and I'm trying to figure out what."

"Well, we found him in the town of em-rrdet-bon in the Valley of Shadow. He was singing while people hammered metal. He didn't know you were here but was excited to meet you when we told him.

Hmm... I heard that once he told everyone in a town to leave because there was going to be a lot of water soon."

That's plausible, at least. Weird, taking an interest in primitive crafts, but plausible - maybe the guy also appeared here out of nowhere and is trying to build the tech base up? But why singing, then?

Well, he has a different angle to try, maybe it'll turn up something more useful. "How did you find him to tell him?"

A realistic answer here would be that they sent messengers to all the towns in Lei, but unfortunately the timeline doesn't work out, so the story has to rely on a bit of luck. "One of my friends had heard from her sister that he had been seen in another town in the Valley of Shadow, so when you asked, I knew that he was near there, and that we could find him by sending messengers to check all the possible towns."

It's not at all implausible that the Force is arranging for them to meet up, and it's most likely a good sign - if their Jedi is a Sith, or fallen, or something, the Force wouldn't steer them right into each other like this. "The Force might do that," he nods. "That tells me something good, if it did. Do you know if your Jedi has anything like my music, or used to? - do you know where he started, as a baby?"

"The Force might do what?

They say he sings very well. Maybe he has music like you, or used to, but if you don't know about music like that, the story sounds like it can't be correct, so people who heard the one story later said only that he sings very well.

I don't know where he was born."

"The Force might have brought him there, and made your friend's sister hear about him. It wouldn't do that if it was bad for me to see him, I think. People who can see the Force are... I don't have the word..." He gets a handful of dice and demonstrates that if he wants high rolls he'll tend to get them, not every time or even often enough to be obvious but more often than chance, if you're paying attention, even if Mirana is the one rolling.

He literally has luck on his side? They're doomed.

Less-plausible lies are actually better? "Neat!"

..."What if two people who can both see the Force are playing a dice game?"

"The one who feels more about it might do better, or the one who's stronger in the Force. Or the one who uses the Force better, maybe, if the first two are about the same."

Ah, so people who can see the Force are the same as people who can use the Force; that's what she thought but it's good to have confirmation.

"What does it mean to use the Force 'better'? Like a werewolf moving the least amount of stone, in the fastest path - taking the stone from a place near to where it needs to go?"