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"With your hangover?"

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"Please."

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"Since you've asked nicely..."

She cups Danni's face with one hand... And a tingling burn - painful, but differently than the hangover - washes through Danni's body, leaving relief in its wake. Not just of the headache, too, but all her soreness. (From the alcohol, at least. She still has the bruises she picked up in the last week, which are now a little tingly.)

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"Ffft." She shakes her head.

"Thanks."

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"You're welcome."

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"So." She looks at the collection of ingredients she managed to gather in her hazy state, discards about half of them, and sets about making an actual breakfast.

"Lightsabers?"

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"Sure." She has some holos loaded on the pad already. "You'll be constructing your own. I can help you source the rarer materials, but this is your project, not mine."

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"Can I see the designs again?"

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She pushes them over.

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Danni peruses them.

"Hm. Never really liked straight blades... Could I do something like my tonfa?"

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"Yeah, there's designs..."

She pulls up and then shows Danni some images of guard shoto. "These are closest to what you already wield."

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"Oh, yeah, I like those."

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"They're designed for defense, too, especially against other lightsabers - a hilt incorporating beskar will go farther with this design."

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"Yeah, that's a good idea. It'll help against other sabers, too."

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"Much of the way they wield is very different from tonfa, though - but you can make a training saber as practice, and we can begin drills immediately."

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"Cool."

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Grin. "It is."

Lightsaber construction lesson, next, relayed as a sprawling ramble throughout breakfast, as if Sidious has somehow regressed to a thirteen year old covered in engine grease and excitedly chattering about racer designs at anyone who'd sit still long enough.

(Which had mostly been the Kims, at that age. The thought isn't as painful as it once was, at least.)

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It's fun to listen to.

Though Danni is maybe going to need some parts repeated, later. When it comes time to actually build one.

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She's willing to repeat herself, and provide reading materials - much of it notes she took while studying and experimenting with this herself. With appropriate digressions into and expanded background on related topics, of course, as relevant. 

(She'd needed to dig fairly deeply into what texts Plagueis would give her, and then experiment far more, and search for more texts and a holocron and then examples to reverse engineer on her own time - Plagueis isn't particularly mechanically minded, and his lightsaber and the instructions he gave her are simple things. Every lightsaber or other Force artifact or even just simple machine she's ever built has been an exercise in restraining herself from messing with it too much.)

(Making a dark-friendly lightsaber have a training mode had been fun. Especially since Starkiller somehow got her a set of Jedi texts on lightsaber construction and a Jedi-style training saber for her Name Day two years ago. That woman is terrifying, sometimes. It'd mostly provided a very interesting rabbit hole to go down, though the inspiration there for Sidious's own finished product had ultimately been tangential at best.)

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...Danni begins to suspect that Palpatine is a secret nerd.

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Whatever gives her that impression? 

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Just, you know. The vibes. The general aura. The irrepressible infodumping.

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Hair ruffle. "You're a brat. And lightsabers are cool."

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"They are! But you're still a nerd."

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"Guilty as charged, I suppose."

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