Hm.

That... Helps a bizarre amount. Helps Anakin feel less like she's dissociating while talking to a ghost.

...Well.

Anakin is a ghost.

Actual ghost Elesse would be - more straightforward. More devastating.

Ellaita thinking differently from Elesse helps Anakin stop feeling like she's hallucinating.

She pauses the teaching very early, as soon as she can tell Ellaita's struggling. "Do you like being active?" she asks. "I was - using the method I was taught, but there's other ways. Working with machines. Fighting. Exercising. Focusing on - any task at all. Examining something and filling your mind with that, rather than with just yourself."

"...I always did best while I was fighting or flying. The important thing is - focus. Clarity."

"...I guess my head always feels clearest when I'm flying."

"Does anything else get you close? - I might be able to keep you comfortable for a bit on the speeder, even in the heat..."

"That works too, usually, but it's literally the hottest part of the day right now."

"Fair. One thing I don't miss about being made of flesh and blood."

She hums. "Flying's out until we have the ship, then, and that might not be the safest time to start experimenting anyways... What part of flying helps you focus?"

"Dunno. The whole thing?"

Hum.

"I can explain some things to pay attention to next time we get you in a pilot's seat... But for now - some other things we can try are you sparring hand to hand or with a weapon against Lily, you sparring with a weapon with me, practing shooting on a range... We could work on a project - there's some minor things that could use fixing. Or..."

"An option that's usually very fast is directly guided meditation. It'd involve mental communication. I could show you my mind, if you don't want me more than brushing against yours, to demonstrate the ideal mindset. I could monitor the broad shape of your mind and try to tell which parts you're having trouble on. That wouldn't give me access to any memories or thoughts."

"Or I could guide your mind directly, though fewer people are comfortable with that."

"Let's try some of the first options."

"Do you already know any martial arts?"

"No, but I'm pretty good with a blaster."

"I can try to teach you to use a staff or a knife, if you want more options in a fight, or we can work with meditative aiming."

"Don't think I want to get all the way into that today, so just aiming."

She nods. "Since you already know how to focus while aiming... Why don't we see if you can shoot me with your eyes closed."

"...Perhaps in a different room, though."

"Good idea." She gets up.

She tells Lily to call if she needs anything, then leads Ellaita into a long open room - by the shielded weapon racks on the walls and assortment of old targets set up at one end, it seems to be a training room. Albeit a fairly low-tech one.

"Choose whichever blaster you're most comfortable with and stand in the middle of the room," Anakin says.

She grabs one of the familiar older models and goes to the center of the room.

"A good choice," she murmurs, and - "You won't be able to hurt me, even if you hit me."

"Close your eyes and then take aim. Try to use your other senses."

She shuts her eyes and fires in the direction the ghost's voice came from.

"Hit," she says, "You have good spatial memory."

And then her voice is coming from behind and to the right of Ellaita. A bit farther away. "But I won't always,"

To her left, slightly ahead, "Stay in one place."

There's no sound of her moving.

She pauses a moment, then fires in a random direction.

"Close," comes the ghost's voice from near where she fired. "Try to anticipate where - "

And her voice moves, "I'll be next."

'Anticipate where I'm going to be next' yeah that's both helpful advice and totally possible.

She takes a guess based on how the voice has been moving.

"Close, but not quite."

The hairs on the back of Ellaita's neck stand on end. 

She whips around and fires a shot.

"Hit!"

And it's almost like the final pop on the 't' is coming from a little bit to Ellaita's left -