She has so many things she wants to bitch about!!! Though she's also grouchy Elesse kept ahold of Ani, and she's guessing (grumble grumble) Elesse doesn't want to deal with her bad mood.

Well. It's only natural.

Ugh yeah!

(Elesse can pretty easily get the woman feeling like Elesse is a confidante who gets her by the meeting; she's back to enough of a neutral mood to handle introductions smoothly then.)

(Such is the power of Jedi negotiation.)

Elesse has her best business foot forward for the meetings.

There aren't any really big players present at the meeting. Local representatives only, basically subcontractors. The only exception seems to be the most heavily-armed contingent, each bearing a filled-in sunburst brand somewhere on their clothes, the symbol of the Black Sun criminal syndicate.

They want to speak with Elesse alone.

She gestures for Anakin to go wait with the other slaves.

Most of them, unsurprisingly, are beaten-down and withdrawn.

She doesn't much like being separated from her Master like this. 

She's not really beaten down - withdrawn, perhaps, but she gives off the impression to other slaves of a watchful waiting, a wariness born out of knowing she can dodge and not out of knowing she can freeze. 

She doesn't give off quite the same vibes as an overseer or snitch, though, but - she's definitely someone who knows she's too valuable to simply dispose of. Someone's personal slave, then, often manservant and right hand and bodyguard and bed warmer all in one. At least some of them will be experienced enough to notice. 

She does mental catalog the slaves around her, their species and possible origins and how long they've likely been enslaved, where they've traveled.

And she looks for any slaves that seem less destroyed. Preferably ones who've rediscovered their strength, who've forged a new steel in being beaten. Who watch and wait like she does. (Though she'll take ones who look new and unbroken, too, and if she can't find any of those, she'll go for whichever slave looks shyest and the least likely to snitch on her.)

There don't seem to be any real hidden gems here. As for shy- both a short Mirialan and a red-headed human girl seem to fit the bill.

She steps up to the human girl first. (Easier to convince her they have things in common.) She sits beside her quietly, lets herself seem anxious, then - almost accidentally - catches her gaze and asks, voice quiet, "Do they - often talk to masters alone?"

"Ummm." Her voice is soft and high-pitched.

"Usually when there's some kind of job?"

She nudges attention away from them, makes her own expression earnest and concerned. "Oh," she says, then shifts a bit, and - quiet - "My Master usually takes me to all her meetings..." Fidget, then, in an even smaller voice: "Are the jobs dangerous?"

Little shrug. "Lots of people don't come here more than once."

"Oh..."

"Have you been on - any jobs?"

She shakes her head. "Master works at the spaceport."

She nods, and nudges a few more details out of the girl - playing at being a slave normally kept glued to her Master's side, nervous about going on dangerous jobs and about being separated and without protection. On this meeting place, the spaceport, who comes through here... Often not directly, but - Anakin can get a lot reading between the lines.

(She, too, tries to ferret out a sense of how to coincidentally arrange this girl's escape or rescue, if it's something the girl's looking for.)

Seems like her master is in charge of loading and unloading arrangements and making sure customs doesn't look to closely at what's going on. She's not the most observant type, but also doesn't get suspicious about Anakin prodding for details. (And doesn't really seem like she'd make a clean escape without a lot of handholding.)

(...Mrrrrr. They - have a mission, and Anakin isn't picking up distress from her. But.)

(The information is really good, at least, and she can at least nudge things to make life easier for the girl. Increase her chances of being caught in one of the audits. And - talk to Elesse about what else they can afford to do.)

Ani is a friendly, lonely sort, and she's good at making friends with other lonely sorts - she makes a shy offer of talking again, if they cross paths. (She's feeling Elesse's meeting wrapping up.)

...The girl'd like that.

And Elesse's meeting is indeed wrapping up. She seems to have made- if not friends, then friendly acquaintances, judging by everyone's expressions as they emerge.

Good.

Ani turns her smile from her new friend to her Master, dropping her eyes demurely - still smiling though - and waiting to be summoned.

She spends a few moments making her goodbyes, then heads for the exit. clicking her fingers at Anakin. "Come, Ani."

"Yes, Master," she says, hurrying to her side (sending a quick reassuring smile at the girl when she's sure no one's looking).

And - "Did you meeting go well, Master?"

"Very. You're my little good-luck charm, Ani."

Giggle blush! "Thank you, Master."