Elesse can't do ZOOM, but up and down and round and round is doable.

Hm... Good enough. (As communicated by her excited shrieking. (Especially if Elesse pretends to drop her. (Mama pretends to drop her a lot and it's always the funnest.)))

(Operation: don't take a whole damn tree home- great success.)

Hopefully Anakin can still appreciate the scenery from her new perspective.

She can! And now Elesse can float her up to look at higher things!

A little taste of growing up.

Heee.

Anakin's gonna grow up SO FAST.

Elesse is gonna turn around one day and boom, Anakin'll be too big to float.

Naw-aw. Elesse can float anything.

She'll have to make sure to keep up with her practice as Anakin grows.

Practice is fun!

It will be for Anakin.

That's what she said.

Elesse is glad they're in agreement.

Uh huh!

(Anakin's starting to flag some, energy-wise. Elesse's increasingly well-honed instincts say she might get over-stimmed soonish.)

Time to head home, then. They should be done enough that Anakin has a place to stay by now.

They are! She has her own little suite, sharing a larger suite with Elesse's rooms. The bedroom is small, with space!!! murals like Anakin's been asking for lately, and the main focus of the suite is a play room/ library, with a nice big window seat and lots of shelves and cat wallpaper, already packed with Anakin's books and toys. They've brought some of the furniture Anakin's more attached to, too, as well as her normal bedding, and she still has her own private courtyard - bigger than the one at the Naboo estate, with a large number of bird houses and feeders that have been up long enough to have already attracted a few birds. (Also set well out of a toddler's reach.)

This is exciting! But also Anakin is probably ready to be put down for a nap. Tragic.

The rooms will still be here when she wakes up.

Fiiiine. (That Sounds Fake, but Elesse's pretty good at reassuring her.)

All in all, not a bad start to their time here.

Not at all. 

Anakin grows quickly. Her vocabulary explodes, and she starts reading early (though she still wants her Elesse to read her bedtime stories). She gets just enough ability to calm down to start early Force training, and pretty quickly figures out floating stuff to her. She makes friends among the local children (and manages to avoid outing their family as Force-users; she seems to feel a nearly instinctive urge to hide her powers). 

(She successfully talks her mama into a big cat, and then two house cats, and then into keeping a forest cat she brings back with her one day. She also successfully cares for them, though.)

Elesse settles into her role on the new planet, taking care of Anakin and guiding her training. Going through the very basics and explaining them to someone else proves to be illuminating, providing Elesse plenty of inspiration to continue working on her own mastery. (Steady access to Palpatine's library also helps.) She's proud of Anakin's progress, both in the Force and her growth as a person. Continuing to take care of all the cats is a big step, and a good one.

(For Elesse's sixteenth birthday, Salacis takes her out on what is, in retrospect, a date. It went fine, but after some thinking, Elesse informs her that next time they could just skip to the end. There are several next times, whenever Salacis swings by for a visit.)

And, a bit over three years after their arrival on the planet - a bit over five years since Palpatine recruited Elesse and Maul - 

The handmaiden Kaishrí approaches Bastí. She's been one of Bastí's more common companions among the handmaidens since she took on her role as estate manager, given that she travels with Palpatine more often than not. She's quieter than the others, more watchful.

"Is there something you need?"