"I'm Anakin Skywalker."

She glances at her apprentice, and - "This is Lily."

"...Nice to meet you."

She nods.

"It's - nice to meet you, too."

"The First Order is looking for you. They think you're a weapon."

"...I'm not. And I never will be again."

"You should go tell your cosplaying fanboy that, then."

"My grandson isn't inclined to listen to me."

"Your gr- Oh this week just gets better and better."

"They do that."

"Fucking hell."

"Did he hurt you?"

"It was only a couple hours of trying to scoop my brain out through my ears with his mind. No big deal."

"I'm sorry."

"There's ways you can keep him even farther out, if you want to learn."

"How could you teach me, I don't have your Force talent or whatever."

"It's very rare for humans to have no Force talent at all - sapients who entirely lack an ability to connect to the Force are also usually significantly harder to mentally affect with it. And a lot of keeping someone out would just involve mental exercises - organizing, refining, and strengthening your will."

"Also... I think you're capable of far more, especially with some training. Not just explicitly sensing things in the Force, but even manipulating it."

If skepticism had a face, it would be Ellaita's.

"You don't believe me?"

"Not really, no."

"Why not?"

"Because I have never before had cause to think that I had such power?"

"Some people process it only subconsciously, or only after they think to start looking, or only after significant effort, or when they're in great distress."

"Our minds are constantly gathering and analyzing information that doesn't come into our knowing focus, except as a gut feeling if a pattern seems to be emerging. This goes for all senses, of which feeling the Force is just one. And even just a mild sense of the Force can help boost that tremendously. Better reflexes, a concept of those around you, where they are, what they feel... More intuition for things you can't consciously perceive. Good instincts. Good guesses."

"So luck is Force sensitivity?"

"Depends on what you mean by luck. Some lucky things are other people making their own decisions, or are the result of complex processes you don't have enough information to predict. Some are your own ability to spot opportunities or how the world shifts - and Force sensitivity is one of many things that helps that."

"Uh-huh. Well, I don't have ten years to sit around and listen to animals breathing, so it's a moot question anyway. I need to find a way offplanet, or at least get a message out."

"I can help, then. And..." She glances at Lily. "I think it might be time for us to make our own way off planet."