"They would never," he says seriously.  "I'd like to tell them about my plan, and that you're helping with it; but we can leave our wager out of it for now."

She nods, slowly. "Okay."

"Thank you," he says.  "I'd also take it as a kindness if you told them you were eavesdropping, or let me tell them.  To be clear, if I expected them to mind I would've done something sooner, but they'd prefer to know."

Pause, then: "We can tell them."

"Thank you," he says.  "Shall we return?"

She nods. "Yeah."

As they start heading back: "I don't think we ever properly introduced ourselves.  My name is Qui-Gon Jinn."

"I'm Anakin Skywalker."

"It's nice to meet you, Anakin Skywalker."

They walk back together.

They re-enter the house, and Kelié greets Qui-Gon, and Qui-Gon says, "I should tell you, we've had a guest."

"Hi," says Anakin, fidgeting a bit and letting people who aren't Qui-Gon perceive her. (It feels - weird. Exposed.)

" - hello."

"I was spying earlier," she says, peering at Kelié.

"Well, it wasn't a terribly private conversation, I don't think," Kelié says, "but thanks for telling us.  Are you Shmi's daughter?"

She nods. "Yeah. I'm Anakin."

"I'm Kelié Amidala," she says.  "It's nice to meet you."

"Anakin was using her talents with the Force to render herself imperceptible," Qui-Gon says.  "Which I, for one, would not mind if she continues doing."

"I prefer it, yeah."

"It's fine with me," Kelié says.

She nods, says, "Thanks," and - fades a bit, in importance. Not entirely, no one's gonna forget she might be there, but she's harder to notice.

Qui-Gon resumes his seat.  "Your Majesty, by now you've heard some of the situation on Tatooine.  Anakin and I have been discussing the beginnings of a plan to free many of the slaves in this city."  He brings her up to speed on the con he and Anakin have worked out the beginning of; he doesn't mention the plan B.

Kelié listens.

"I don't have Force instincts," she says, "but if this plan goes wrong it could go very badly wrong.  We don't have the parts we need to fix the ship, and even if we assume we can gamble for them as well, if we lose that gamble we have no way off the planet and no way to pay off our debts."

Anakin fades back into their awareness. "I had plans before you guys show up. There's some ships that're easy to steal - I was gonna grab one of the bigger ones, but there's small fast ones too. I could get you in without anyone noticing and away before people manage to chase you."

"You can hide other people as well as yourself?" Kelié says.  "Do you think you could hide all the people we'd be rescuing?"

She thinks. "It'll be really hard, but it'll get easier once we're all in the same ship, better if they're having - quiet thoughts? Which we're good at."