"It is? Do you want anything before you meet him?" She was told to try to get him to go to the station but she doesn't know why.

(The reason, which she is not cleared to know, is that: undines are real; an undine is going to be necessary to survive Rafiik meeting the 'other Jedi'; and getting an undine in range of Rafiik's room is going to be a pain. To start with, undines are aquatic. Worse, the undine in their employ is not loyal to the Lei Empire and can't be allowed near anyone who might think about anything important. The shrine itself is out of range, but many of the guards would need to be moved, which means more guards than usual would be necessary, and they'd be following a procedure that they're less familiar with.)

"I could learn more words or go for a walk, or something else, it doesn't matter very much to me."

Words then! Communication is important and learning languages is mentally tiring; it's a win-win.

The weight of the undine's tank should be minor compared to all the rock, but a collapse would be disastrous. A set of loyal, dependable, and ignorant werewolves add temporary supports through the six storeys below and stand by with the rock 'warmed up'. The vampire monitors the shifting stress as the tank is rolled in.

Knock knock. More music?

Sure, thank you.

Another knock. It's the Jedi! He's wearing a simple robe, a wide braided belt, a friendly smile, and a relaxed, balanced posture.

He is not the slightest bit Force-sensitive.

He knows it's not the Jedi even before he opens the door, though he's not thinking specifically about why; presumably it's someone coming to get him to take him to where the other Jedi is waiting for him. That it's another human behind the door is a bit surprising but not very much so; humans are incredibly common, after all, and the locals have to have gotten their human heritage somewhere.

"...can I help you?"

"No, I'm so sorry, sir, I must have gotten turned around." He bows and walks away.

...weird. Probably not Force-related, or he would have stuck around for a minute, though it could be setup for something. Alternately, maybe another FDer trying to talk to him about the war? He'll have to arrange to be alone in the room for a while at some point and maybe he'll show up again then. This isn't a good time for it at all, though, so it's no big loss. For now: more vocabulary?

More vocabulary, and then a butler brings snacks.

"...where is the Songful Jedi?"

Good question; it is a little weird that the other Jedi is taking this long. It's probably bad news if he takes much longer - if he was fallen and hostile he most likely would have come and killed Rafiik right away (which there's not really anything he can do about, so it's not worth dwelling on; give it to the Force) but another possibility is that he's hostile and preparing a battleground. Possibly it's worth trying to run, if it looks like that's what's going on? He'll ask the Force about it later rather than miss the message here.

"Hm? He isn't here yet."

"He should be..." Saiel puts down the tray and hurries out.

A minute later, he's back. "He was on this hallway a few minutes ago, eager to meet you and confident that he could get to your room by himself. And then he was seen climbing up to the surface in a rush. We should hear back from the kite workers soon what he did after that."

...what. He would have noticed him if he was that close, almost certainly. And that 'almost' is 'if he was purposely hiding his Force signature', which doesn't square with him being eager about the meeting. "Something strange is going on. I want to talk to him as soon as you find him."

Rafiik hasn't said aloud that the other Jedi is an imposter, or commanded they apprehend him, so he's going to 'get away'. That means the hastily-assembled 'interrogation room' will go to waste, and they can't use it as an excuse to bring Rafiik farther from the shrine, but this way is still safer than the conversation with the fake Jedi would be.

The next update: "He stole a bicycle and is riding bright - towards the sun - faster than we can follow."

Rafiik has concluded by now that the most obvious explanation is that the guy is an impostor, and it's occurred to him that Mirana and the rest of them might be lying to him, though it's still possible that there were Jedi here at one point to inspire imitators. He's probably going to need to Force Trick somebody, getting this sorted out, but it's less skeevy to start with the person he knows is lying to him. "Do you have another bicycle I can use, I can probably catch him."

"Yes, just a minute, sir. Mirana, take him to the surface?"

Why are they doing this. Doesn't the Emperor understand they're already doomed?

Well.

He'll do his job to the end.

An equartier can go fast enough but will leave an obvious trail of destruction through the farmland.

Maybe there's a cat thing with steam that would work? But they don't have it, and how would they get rid of it, and it would take minutes at least to build it. 

Ah! Two equartiers! Plus a very very very long rope, a mouseling, and a flock of harpies.

It's just up the ladder here and then Saiel will bring the bicycle in a moment ah here he is

(The bicycle is actually a velocipede with solid stone wheels shaped like two cones glued base to base. There is no clear path through the grass.)

Rafiik has never so much as seen a velocipede before, but he's a Jedi, he'll figure it out.

First, though, he needs to figure out where he's even going; a moment's meditation to sharpen his eyesight and then he crouches and leaps into the air, rather higher than you'd expect a creature with the form factor of a human to be able to.

There's an awful lot of movement on the horizon, some kind of flapping or reciprocating motion being done by a lot of people. And a trail of crushed plants leading straight towards a frantically-bouncing and wobbling humanoid figure.