"I'm not sure? I've been human for a while and I wasn't for a while before that."

"Huh. Well, it sounds like it hasn't been a long time. You don't yet have all the experience you'd need to really know how people work."

"Are you going to offer her yours?" Tom wonders. "Take her under your little wing?"

"Maybe I will," Edmund says, blushing slightly.

"Is this about sex again?" she wonders.

"Is for him, isn't for me."

"I have never encountered such an irrepressibly horny species."

"Is it the whole species or just some people?"

"I am including the evidence of my own morph-instincts here."

"Oh! That makes sense." She sighs longingly. "I want to turn into creatures....."

The tiny robed figure in the corner makes a chittering noise. "Diki not thinking this particularly ethics-related. Um, teacher, Diki wondering... Diki Jedi. Jedi ethical code... not always good. Diki able to use code for foundation of new moral system? Or just have to make new one himself?"

Sahar shrugs. "Explain the Jedi Code and let's see."

Diki closes his eyes and says, in a much less frenetic tone:

"There is no emotion, there is peace.
There is no ignorance, there is knowledge.
There is no passion, there is serenity.
There is no chaos, there is harmony.
There is no death, there is the Force."

His eyes open again. "Um, emotions bad. Emotions make Jedi vulnerable to Dark Side of Force. But Diki think maybe emotions good sometimes if not too much? Ignorance bad obviously. Diki not disagreeing with that. Always wanting to know more, always wanting to know consequences of actions. Passion... again, emotions not good... Jedi say. Chaos bad, disrupts Force, makes hard to predict consequences; harmony better all around. And. Um. Death not real. Because universal Force take everyone when they die. But... maybe Diki care about if people die anyway?"

"Any other opinions from the class?" Sahar asks, neutrally.

"...what, um... does being taken by the universal Force consist of...?"

Eserik flickers into view, standing behind Diki's chair. "No one has any idea, and the only reason we suspect it to be anything other than total oblivion is that when immersed in the Force we can feel echoes of those who have died. Noteworthy Jedi scholars suppose it must be pleasant, because the Force is ultimately benevolent. They conveniently ignore that the Force is an incomprehensibly vast and alien pseudo-super-intellect about which we know nothing except how fucking dangerous it is. You may note for the record that in lieu of joining the Force, I became a ghost."

"I don't... think that's the same as what happens to dead people where I'm from..."

"It likely isn't. We know that the Force extends beyond our own universe into most others, but for whatever reason it's... dormant, in most of them. Doesn't do anything unless there's a force user there to manipulate it."