"It was, yes. Now it is yours."

She angles it so it's not pointing at anyone, thumbing the switch.

A brilliant amber blade spears out, lighting up the room.

"Wow."

She flicks it off, turning it over in her hands. She doesn't get visions like Master Anakin does, but...

She wants to see Elesse, feel her, across all these decades, even if Lily's emotions always feel complicated after hearing about her. Maybe...

Lily finds herself hoping that past Elesse could've known her padawan would be okay eventually. That she'd have Lily. 

She doesn't know how to make sure that happened, but -

She'll just have to look after Master Anakin, she guesses.

"Thank you," she tells Maz, sincerely.

Maz smiles warmly. "You are most welcome, dearie."

Heee.

- And then there's a muffled noise from upstairs. Must be rather loud to be heard down here.

It's almost like an explosion.

Then the sirens start.

"Oh dear," sighs Maz. "A raid."

" - I need to find Master Anakin - " she says, jumping to her feet, a panicked foreboding falling over her. 

"Go on, go on! But tuck that away first, you don't want anyone seeing it just yet."

She nods, slipping it into an inner pocket in her jacket. "Thank you," she says again, before turning to run for the stairs up. 

Upstairs is largely chaos. Patrons and staff running every which way, hunting for exits, hunting for weapons, hunting for unattended booze to make off with...

She wants to find Ellaita, her Master Anakin -

She ducks around people, looking for either. 

Over there, fighting towards the door.

Anakin's already by the entrance, clearly scanning the room for Lily.

Lily waves and starts trying to make her way over. She's pretty good at darting past people, at least.

Anakin shakes her head, and, a bare whisper into Lily's mind - 'Get Ellaita and hide. Something's wrong.'

She stops.

And starts making her way over to Ellaita instead, cutting across the chaotic room to grab her sleeve.

"We have to get to the ship-"

"Something's wrong, mom told me we gotta hide."

"Hide where, this is a bar, not a base."

"There's a basement..."

"So we can get trapped under the rubble? No thanks. Outside. We can get into the forest, if nothing else."

"...Okay. Let's hide there."

She can get Ellaita toward the entrance a lot faster than Ellaita could get on her own, at least. She has a really good sense of how to dodge people, and isn't above subtly shoving people out of the way with the Force.

Anakin's not at the entrance anymore.

She's in the courtyard outside, staring at spreading ranks of stormtroopers - at bombers - as they prepare to attack everyone caught outside, the building itself -