"She called the one we captured an 'acolyte' of Plagueis - she said Plagueis had promised him the 'spot' of apprentice if he killed her."

"Where there's one, there's always more. Just like guttersnipes."

She nods. "Fidela also seemed to know Plagueis's real identity - but she refused to tell us unless we 'proved we wouldn't do anything stupid with it.' She indicated a way of tracking our activities, though she claimed indirectly so."

"Most of the information one would need to track a Jedi is technically available to the public."

"She might count doing something Plaguis could track as 'something stupid'..."

"Track at all, or track back to her? Obviously he's going to notice if his operations start getting rolled up, but we can do parallel construction via the acolyte."

"There's likely some moves we could make without alerting him, though."

"True..."

"I'd also like to find other information sources than Fidela or the acolyte - I don't trust her."

"Good. Keep doing that."

"Yet we must start somewhere."

She nods, then goes over any other questions their Masters have - and after that, it seems like it's time to take their report to the Council? Plus or minus any comments or redactions the Masters want to include.

Minor tweaks- that will cast the girls' competence in the best light. There are certain to be Questions.

Alright.

But even with the tweaks...

The Jedi Council is hesitant to believe that the acolyte or Fidela represent true Sith - it's an incredibly common claim among the various darkside cults, but it's never been substantiated. Their last sure record is from centuries ago - the surviving remnant of the Sith then were operating under the Rule of Two, meaning there'd only ever be a single Master and apprentice at a time, not multiple competing factions.

Also, they disapprove severely of any collaboration with darksiders, including declining to arrest them when the opportunity arises. Whether or not this 'Fidela' was targeting bystanders at the time, she represents a fundamental threat.

For two padawans alone, nonviolence was the correct choice. Better, perhaps, if Fidela could have been tracked without alerting her, but not unacceptable, even so.

They have lost many Jedi to the dark side after conversations like this - if the padawans could not safely confront her, it would have been better to retreat. 

Going forward, the Council cannot approve of collaborating with those claiming to be Sith, even to combat other darksiders, nor of accepting intelligence from them.

Understood.

The Council wraps up the report shortly after, then informs them that the Council would like for them to remain at the Temple for the time being, to be available for further questions and as a security measure in case of spying by or retaliation from the darksiders.

Of course, Masters.

In the turbolift down from the council chambers, Asha rolls her eyes. "Bantha shit."

"Master...?"

"The High Council spends too much time on Coruscant. They're flinching, same as always, from anything that suggests the galaxy isn't their comfortable status quo."

"Then what are our next steps?"

"For the two of you? Rest and training. Give the Council no cause to cast further suspicion upon you. I will keep an eye on the interrogation of our darksider, and begin what inquiries I can from here."