The next day, in the afternoon, Pradnakt feels ready to try the new approach to light side meditation; the results are promising, though she'll need some practice in order to get the most out of the technique.

Daisy sends this news to Kalbetis, along with the promised copy of the art guide, annotated to note which pieces they think should be removed and which might require some additional explanation for the Jedi.

That's wonderful news, and the art guide will be useful; the people who are working on setting the trail will appreciate all this.  There might be a few followup questions from the agent that's laying the hook for the Jedi, once they've gotten a chance to read it.

Also here's something from Kalbetis that isn't business-related.

Kalbetis thought that Pradnakt might appreciate the blueprints for a mechanism that is, as far as she is aware, unique to her saber - she can ~hotswap which of the crystals in it provides the primary resonance, and therefore which one colors the blade most strongly.  She had to forge her crystals by hand for this to work, rather than get them ready-made from the great kyber-forges of the Empire, but she does find material alchemy an engaging hobby on occasion.

(It's useful to avoid being too easily associated with oneself, when one is in a precarious enough position.  She's somewhat visually distinctive, and establishing that she didn't even have the same color saber as her alter ego across the lines has gone a surprising amount of distance in the past.)

(...Nobody else in her cohort, if not the whole intelligence apparatus, was so - well, absolutely insane, she will admit - as to plan to pretend to be a Jedi near enough an actual Jedi that they might need to have a response to that question, she supposes - but it worked well enough.)

Delightful. She knew she'd kept hold of her favorite crystals from her old workshop all this time for a reason. Not all of them will work, and she doesn't have anything that'll give her a blue or green 'saber, but she does have a rather nice purple, and - is it too on the nose to go around calling herself Dusk with a purple and orange lightsaber? Too bad, she's already set the orange one up to grow.

Would Lord Pradnakt care to make known her opinions on the most effective and/or most preferable ways she could be involved in this operation, by the way?  There's one last strategy meeting to be had.

She'll want to sit in on that, yeah; her powers are generally most useful when they're planned for.

Would she prefer to be physically present or utilize the comm again?

They should probably spend some time around each other if they're going to be working together in person; that doesn't have to be now but this seems like as good an opportunity as any for it.

Then here is the time.

She brings Daisy with her, leaving Nine to watch the ship. She's still dressing like a Sith, but more casually, and she's found time to expand the range of colors in the embroidery embellishing her outfits to include silver, purple, and dark blue in addition to the red, orange, gold and black that made it up before.