"My line of droids is designed to serve Sith, sir, who are people trained in one of the most common ways of using the Force in the world I came from, and Lord Pradnakt is one, so yes, sir. But most of what I was designed for is the sort of service that anyone might want, so it probably won't be hard to find work for me to do."

"Well, you could certainly do that kind of thing if you like it, I know plenty of healers that could use the help, but this sounds like a good opportunity to think about what else you might want to do with yourself - I can support you for a while, probably, while you figure it out, what else are you going to need?"

"Just the charger, sir."

"Oh! Well, then you hardly need to worry about working at all - you'll probably want a house or something sooner or later but there's no rush, if you want to travel with me for a while, or take up an apprenticeship or something - it might be worth seeing how you do on the wizarding exam, even, if that's something you'd be interested in, they'll give you a scholarship if you do well enough. The whole world's open to you, really."

"...yes sir."

"Bit much all at once, isn't it. That's all right. You can stay with me as long as you want, and we can try different things until you find something you like, if you're not sure what else to do."

"Thank you, sir."

"Do you have any ideas about where you'd want to start? Or any other questions for me?"

"I don't, sir. I don't think I know enough about this world to have ideas about it."

"That makes sense. I'm not sure how good the library is here, but once you're done charging we could go check it out, how about that?"

"That sounds fine, sir."

She's another twenty minutes charging - it doesn't bring her to full capacity, but enough for the next few days at least - and then they can get going.

Raafi leads the way.

"I'll stay to get you settled but it's getting close to dinnertime for me, and I need to figure out where I'm sleeping tonight - should I get a room for you, or what do you want to do with yourself overnight? Most things will stay open, if you don't need to sleep, and I can probably find you a guide, if you want one."

"May I stay at the library, sir?"

"Sure, that'll work fine - are you going to want to spend a lot of time there in the next few days, do you think? It might make sense to buy a week pass for you instead of just a day one."

"I'm sorry, sir, I didn't realize that it was an expense, libraries are generally free in the world I came from. I don't need to visit the library."

"- maybe not but I think it'll be worth it. Don't worry about it, I'm paying. How do they manage free libraries?"

"They're paid for by the government, sir."

"Huh, I'd expect that to be too expensive to even try. I wonder if we could copy you here, do you know how they managed to afford it?"

"I think books might be less expensive there, sir, the ones you brought me seemed to be hand-written and they have machines that can make thousands of books in a day."

"That would do it. You wouldn't happen to know how those machines work, would you?"

"No sir, I'm sorry."

"That's all right. It would have been silly not to ask, is all. I do want to introduce you to some scholars once you have your feet a little more firmly under you, they might be able to put it together from what you do know. If that's all right with you, of course, and you should probably be thinking about what you want in exchange, too, that's valuable information if they can get anything out of it."

"Yes sir."

"What types of things do people usually ask for?"

"Well, money, that's always popular. A cut of whatever profit they make is probably the best way to do that here, since neither of you is going to be sure how valuable what you know is. Or you can commission them to do something for you in exchange; if you want a spell designed by someone who doesn't usually take requests or a law changed or something this might be a way to make that happen. I think what I'd recommend is... if you could be living however you wanted, five or ten years from now - or fifty or a hundred, whatever feels like a good distance in the future for trying to make big plans in - and you're living in the perfect place with the perfect neighbors spending your time exactly how you want to, what would that look like, and what things would you need to have to get there, and of course in the real world it probably won't work perfectly but if you try for it and get part of the way there you'll probably still be pretty happy, does that make sense?"

"It does, yes sir. Thank you."