"People on one of the other planets, I don't know much about it. My home planet is only Jedi, mostly."

"Do you like being a Jedi?"

"Mm," he offers thoughtfully. "I like being a Jedi."

He likes... the status, compared to... 'humans' who aren't Jedi, but doesn't like... what

Being a Jedi as opposed to: 

Being dead?

Doing something in particular that Jedi have to do? 

Talking about being a Jedi? 

Not being a Jedi, because sometimes he isn't?

They might simply not have enough information to understand this remark.

"Why?"

"There's lots of good things about it. The Force powers," he bobbles his pebble demonstratively. "And the work is - it's different, a lot, it's good. People think Jedi are good." He shrugs. "I want... I don't know how to say it. In my language I don't know how to say it."

"What Jedi work do you like the most?"

"I like different parts of different kinds. I like getting to see new planets and talk to new people." He gives her a wry grin at this.

This has not been very informative.

This has been worse than uninformative. They have another word, 'Force'. It's related to 'Jedi' and 'human'. To be precise, it's related to all 'Jedi' but not all 'humans', or all 'humans' but not all people-of-some-class-that-includes-'humans'.

If it's a thing that Jedi-and-others have, an obvious possibility is that Jedi and Sith have it. Is there something they can do to attract the attention of a Sith to come save them? A particular sensory ability they can try to be visible to? 

"Ask about the Force."

"What does the Force..." She frowns...

She once asked a liefling what targeting feels like, how they know what effect their leaves will have on an organism. He pointedly asked her what shaping rock feels like. She feels embarrassed just thinking about it.

A question that everyone asks Jedi is probably safe, yeah?

"...What does it feel like?"

"Can I have the music back first? It's going to stop working if we use it too much."

"Oh, of course." She was supposed to know it's limited, oh dear. "Sorry. That music is like nothing I've heard before."

"Yeah. It's too bad we don't have the things so it doesn't stop working." He turns it off and repockets it.

"The Force is different for every person but I feel it in my body, mostly, and using it is a little bit like singing, it moves in me the way air moves when you sing." He puffs out a breath demonstratively and then sings a quick scale, holding his hand in front of his mouth to feel his exhalations.

That's so specific! And he actually has an answer, not just 'it feels like Force'. She wants to ask if skill at singing helps him do Force things but that seems risky. Instead, prompted via whisshopper: "What does it feel like when you look at the food to check if it's safe?"

"Captain, I request that you ask twenty butlers what it feels like to do their species magic. And the guards on shift." He doubts that boarks and stetcaps will have anything to say but it might be interesting to compare exactly how little they have to say.

    "Aye, dispatcher."

(Of course he has an answer, it's humanizing, and that's important if you ever want to work with the public as a Jedi.)

"That's hard to say to someone who doesn't use the Force - if you've sung together with other people it's a little bit like that, singing with the food, but only a little bit. And then I feel bad or good, but - if you look at someone who feels bad you feel bad but it's not the same as feeling bad yourself, it's like that."

"Do you like to sing with other people?"

'someone who doesn't use the Force' - that's an odd phrasing. Why not 'someone who doesn't have the Force'? Rafiik should be able to say it both ways in Elvish, so that was a choice. Is the 'Force' something that all 'humans' have the potential for? And Jedi and Sith and possibly other smaller factions are made of 'humans' who have an active Force. There's a natural conflict in that system between people who take other humans' dormant Force to grow personally stronger, and people who activate other humans' Force to gain numerous weak followers. And then the metahuman sacrificed their own Force to create breeders? Or they simply were the first breeder themself.

Meanwhile, the guard captain delegates to three underlings and they all run to talk to the nearby guards and butlers and underbutlers and other staff. There are werewolves standing by with stones 'warmed up' to take notes on; the stones already have interlocking edges so they can be assembled into a tablet that one person can hold for the dispatcher to read.

Results:

Werewolf (10): Most (8) say it just happens, or doesn't feel like anything else they have words for. Two compare it with other physical sensations ("licking out the inside of a custardnut", "slowly getting an erection").

Catfolk (9): Flames, in general, feel warm and windy to the touch. Creating a flame doesn't feel like anything more than wanting the flame and then feeling or seeing the flame. Maintaining a flame requires mental effort that feels like any other concentration (7), or like repeating instructions over and over to remember them (2). There is no sensory feedback on how close one is to the limit, but some (4) catfolk say that they "have an intuition for it." Unexpectedly reaching the limit feels like something to all (9), but the catfolk were split between describing it as a "mental twitch" (3), or a brief "itchiness" (2) or other discomfort on the skin (4), strongest where the flame was supposed to sit, or on the body part that had touched the object that was supposed to hold the flame. (The catfolk then started an argument about whether it's possible to mount a flame on an object without actually producing a flame, which is ongoing.)

Boark (10): Unanimous agreement that magic doesn't feel like anything. One then said "when I stick my hand in a false-silver acid froth, it feels like something and it doesn't hurt me like it would hurt you" which inspired similar comments with no clear conclusions.

Stetcap (4): Incredulous silence.

Liefling (1): "It feels like so much! There are no words for it. I could only talk about it with another liefling who has targeted the same creature, at close to the same time, with a similar purpose." But she then was able to say that "it takes at least half a second and at most a few seconds" and feels more like "exploring a daydream" than "doing arithmetic". In response asking if she could make me, a werewolf, feel like a boark touching acid: "No, because that would require targeting two creatures at once." In response to asking if she could make me feel like a liefling, she became incoherent.

Wroth (1): "It's similar to touching something normally, just the ...shape is different."

Whisshopper (1): Illusions seem like they're real.

Elph [number redacted]: "I can tell that it's not my memory but it's pretty similar. What shrines feel like is a state secret."

Kitsune (1): "I have to think about it but it doesn't feel like anything..."

Other: A runner has been dispatched to ask other species, including a mouseling, a vampire, a drider, and an equartier.

"Cancel the runner to the drider." Because the only other driders nearby are off-duty guard dispatchers who need their rest. And he already knows how a thoughtsprint feels: like holding his breath, complete with all the physical sensations of holding his breath and the actual shortness of breath afterwards.

In summary, Rafiik's Force does not feel like a species magic.

"I like to sing with people! It doesn't help me use the Force better, though, it's different from that."

Aha! "Who do you sing with most often?"

"Other Jedi my... hm." They haven't covered age yet, he'll sketch a series of stick figures growing up and eventually pairing up and having a kid on the sand table and indicate that he's a teenager. "There's an adult singing group, too, but I'm in the teenager one - teenage Jedi are called Padawans."