She sticks her tongue out. "Now you're just being silly."

"Even Senators sometimes feel the urge. Do Jedi not?"

She drops into a teasingly conspiratorial tone. "They do. The stoic demeanor is actually the galaxy's longest running practical joke."

"Incredible. I truly had no idea."

"We excel at deadpan snark."

"I shall carefully review my notes and memories of interactions with Jedi for corroborating evidence."

"I'm sure you'll find everything I say is accurate."

"You have yet to give me cause to doubt."

"I'll try to avoid doing that in the future, too."

"I'm sure you will, Anakin."

Smile. "I like being reliable."

"That will take you far in life, I am sure."

"Thanks."

"Will you tell me more about what the Jedi are like, Anakin? I have always found the traditions around the Force... fascinating."

She nods. "If you tell me more about Alderaan and the Senate."

"An equitable exchange. Very well."

Grin.

She relaxes while they chat about their respective spheres - Anakin joined the Order at nine, much later than is normal for those getting training as a potential Knight rather than joining the Service Corps, so she has a bit of an odd perspective compared to most Jedi.

Her teaching line is also apparently unusual - she brags a bit about her grandmaster, Mace Windu, which leads into her animatedly rambling about lightsaber forms and then about her friends - one of them, Djedzu, spars with her a lot and is determined to develop an entirely new lightsaber form, apparently. Ze's making pretty determined headway into mastering all the existing ones, according to Anakin.

It sounds like she has about six people really directly tying her to the Jedi, and one of those is a bit of a dubious tie - her master Lily, her grandmaster Mace, her mother Shmi who joined the Jedi only five years ago (and who sounds like she's not very firmly anchored to the Jedi), and then three friends among the other padawans - Djedzu, Joul, and Kalra.

She mostly asks questions about Elesse's own life. Where she grew up. What was it like. What are her favorite places in Alderaan or Coruscant. 

(There are certainly... opportunities in cultivating this girl.)

Elesse grew up in the Juran region of Alderaan, so living at altitude as in the Coruscant skyscrapers is familiar to her. Though of course the Alderaanian mountains offer a better view, she adds. She keeps landscapes on the walls of her office to remind her of home, jagged grey peaks capped with snow gnawing at the sky above the lush green valleys. She did a lot of hiking when she was younger, taking a full pack and a walking stick and losing herself in the wilderness for a week at a time. Coruscant doesn't offer so many opportunities in that way, but she enjoys the other entertainments it has. The opera and the ballet, the finest galactic cuisine...

Anakin loves hiking, though - people are fun, and hedonism is really nice, and she likes art and stories, too. Lily took her on a hiking trail once as a gift for one of Anakin's Life Days, that wound through some really pretty mountain valleys on a trail that connected several hundred art galleries and old theaters and dance halls... She didn't get to see them all, but it was a lot of fun. Coruscant has some interesting stuff, but... Anakin likes worlds with nature, and she especially prefers worlds that aren't just - some pretty golden foil papering over a mountain of sapient misery, honestly. 

Those are sadly becoming all too rare these days.

Anakin's - not sure it's a 'becoming.'

Perhaps not. The galactic community is less willing to ignore it when it is present, then.

A pretty big prerquisite to fixing things, though - people can't object to things they don't know about. 

True- though again as with the negotiations, establishing common knowledge of the problem is only the beginning of the process of gathering the will to agree on and work towards a solution.

"Yeah, but - the process is more begun than it was, so it's an opportunity to do that gathering."