"They didn't have a choice." Sadness, regret, bitterness. 

"Why not?"

"When the Jedi find a Force-sensitive infant, they take it. The parents aren't consulted in a more than perfunctory way; the creches aren't set up for literal newborns so there's often a grace period in which escaping with the infant is possible, but...escaping and staying escaped is very difficult, at least within the Republic, and most people would rather their children grow up safe in the Temple than in Hutt space or the Sith Empire."

"That's mean of them."

"It was the first thing I had to acknowledge was truly wrong with the Jedi." 

"It's good you did."

"Ekkreth helped." 

She pauses, thinking. "Am I gonna help free other people?"

"Do you want to?"

"Maybe. It feels right."

"Then I think it's very likely. What do you know about the Hutts?" 

"They're slavers. They cheat people. People think they're bad."

Nod. "No species is all bad, but the Hutt culture is set up in a way that encourages it. Anything you can afford, you can get away with, in Hutt space. The slavery is the worst part, but plenty of people in Hutt space get hurt in other ways." 

"I don't think people should be places they don't wanna be," she says, slowly, like this is a new idea she's testing out.

Nod. "They shouldn't. Unfortunately, there are only so many places to be--if you don't want to be in Hutt space and you don't want to be in the Republic and you don't want to be in the Empire, then your options are limited. That's--something valuable about the Tatooine project, if we can pull it off."

"Yeah. Seems like it."

"I'm optimistic. Ekkreth has had decades with all the resources of a Darth at their disposal to assemble secret weapons." 

"Secret weapons sound cool."

"I certainly think so! You can ask them about them when we get to the rendezvous."

She nods, humming, then yawns.

"There are cots in the back when you want to go back to sleep." 

"I'm kinda tired..." She yawns again. "But this is exciting."

"It's hours still to the rendezvous." 

"And I wanna be awake then..."

"If you sleep now, I can wake you when we get there and you'll be more alert than if you had stayed up the whole time."