"- I don't mind being - imposed on. It's also easier, for me, if the people I love make sure they're in my life."

"I will remember this."

She smiles, gets them food and drink, and sits with Elesse - not quite touching her, but definitely close, in easy hugging distance.

She laughs, and - "I don't really even know where to begin, now..."

"Tell me about teaching Luke," she invites.

Lean.

She has a lot of stories about flailing in the general direction of teaching - Luke hadn't gotten any training before nineteen, where he got a small amount from Obi-Wan and then Yoda... A small amount as in, Obi-Wan informed him the Force existed, and then he ran off from Yoda after three days, apparently.

Mostly her stories are assorted mishaps and shenanigans - and a fond acknowledgement that Luke taught her just as much, it feels like. Luke's a fairly intuitive learner, very in tune with the Force - easy for her to understand.

She's also tried to teach Leia, some, around Leia's work in the government - Leia's been harder, she started out liking Ani less, and is both more direct and methodological...

Luke has a student of his own, now, who Ani's been helping with...

Perhaps Elesse should return to teaching. She is somewhat at loose ends.

"You're good at it," she says, leaning more. "And - I think you'd have good insight for Luke, on building a new Jedi Order."

She puts her head on Elesse's shoulder.

"But if you'd rather not - it's a big multiverse, and there's a lot to do."

"It is a big multiverse," she agrees. "Which is why I think I would like to stay closer to familiar territory to begin with."

"Alright."

"I certainly would like having you around."

"There's that, too."

Snug.

"Right now I'm in this world and Glint's mostly - there's a couple useful magic systems I want to pick up, though I might switch to living back home and visiting here, soon... Or see if I can convince someone to come visit us and take students."

"Are any of them inclined to do that?"

"Of our alts - I think Mora, actually, she's a me who's curious about our world, and her magic system's... Probably, long term, going to be the most useful, and the most useful for her to teach because it gets more powerful with research. She does rituals, which you can just write down, and then anyone trained can use them. Her world lacked pretty much schools for it. Right now she has enhancing other people's abilities, and ways of hampering her enemies, and the ability to move between universes, and some miscellaneous things, and she's close on resurrection - and unlike the method they used for you, her resurrection technique can probably scale."

"Glint, the me who's a god of madness, can also be in multiple places at once, and thinks she might enjoy teaching or be able to assign someone to teach - at least the things her magic does very well, like healing - and she benefits from having worshipers, who she can do things for in turn, so she's interested in seeing if she can get worshipers from our world. Ellayania - the you who's the landscape here, and also a god - might be similarly interested, I haven't actually asked..."

"Outside of that... People from Naraka's world might be interested, and almost certainly people from Elatra's world, many of whom owe the group a huge number of favors. The resurrection they have right now is running off of one of those favors. I don't really understand, yet, how Elatra's world's magic works; Leia's been investigating the magic systems more thoroughly, though, and seems to want to hold off on introducing either magic system at all broadly..."

"Yes, that makes sense. Such a thing would assuredly be disruptive to... whatever system the galaxy is running on at the moment."

"Yeah. We don't actually know how to balance potential interactions between magic systems, especially ones that work with something ambient. Glint knows someone who can evaluate how her world's magic works elsewhere, at least..."

"Ah, if only there were more of that sort of person."

"We have - a lot to start with, at least, and we can afford to be cautious. See if Glint's friend can get a feel for other magic systems, maybe."

"Yes, this is a good thing to take one's time with."

She smiles, leaning into Elesse, and lets the conversation drift through their alts, and the different magic systems, and Elesse's future in the New Republic...

It's been a while since she and her Padawan have been able to chat.

It's nice.

Meanwhile...

Naruto - the one from Naraka's world, though he thinks Elieyha's presence is more significant - thinks he's finally cracked interworld travel via Six Paths chakra. Maybe. Hopefully. Probably.

"I think that's more conditionals than I'm strictly comfortable with."

Snicker.

"You wanna do the honors, then?"

"As someone who didn't fail their Academy exam three times due to abysmal chakra control- yes."

He sticks his tongue out.

"I overload one technique..."