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Yikes! She stays upright, thanks to liberal Force use, and un-blaster-singed, thanks to dodging very nearly into the yellow blade, and tries to retreat a pace, covering her retreat with her blade, in hopes that this will reveal a little more about the back-of-the-knee situation.

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...That was definitely something jamming into the back of her knee, alright!  And now the back of her back, apparently, some sort of hexagonal plate of pressure?  Diana's Force presence seems to be diffusing all over, even as she lines up another shot with the green blade, threatening a strike of some sort via her yellow that Deskyl has to deflect now if she doesn't want a sweeping, stinging line of pain across her body; apparently somehow her blade extends!

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She jukes away from the blast and into the yellow blade - yep, that hurts, but she's fine, she can take some pain - and then back the other way, rolling under the obvious strike zone for the green blade to get clear enough to tap out.

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And Diana does not further attack her even before tap-out!

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Then Deskyl will turn her saber off, giggling.

    "She says she sees now why you didn't panic at having an unexpected Sith on board, ma'am."

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This elicits sympathetic giggling from Diana!

Eventually she drifts back into memories...

"You woke up in a panic and tried to actually stab me a few times but, yeah, I could absolutely handle that - Force, you were so out of it too, then; I don't know if you remember this but you just looked so betrayed the time your first attempt to stab me got - " Diana demonstrates, telekinetically levitating the training saber - "caught like this - which, there's so many Sith you can stop with that it's not even funny, especially the ones that still need their hands to lightning at someone?  I've disarmed a couple by -" Diana demonstrates a twisting maneuver, green saber pushing, attacker's saber locked in place against blue - "various tricks like that, actually - it's like no-one even thinks about them til they've been hit with them first, which is actually really odd?"

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    "She says 'that's the tutaminis letting you manipulate things other Force sensitives are using the Force on? Sith can't do that,' ma'am."

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"Nnnooo, it's just, locking their blade and pushing?  Tutaminis might make it easier, to generate the requisite oomph, but it's just a consequence of leverage."

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...hmh? "Ohhhhh...."

    "It's the physical reinforcement, she says, ma'am; most Force-sensitives just aren't physically strong enough to do it. You're also right that most of them don't try, but if it succeeded for the ones who did they'd be copied."

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"Huh.  Knew I'd grown some, but not this much.  Interesting!"

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Deskyl kips up, her lightsaber fully stowed now, and goes to sit on a crate.

    "She says she wouldn't be surprised if you're some kind of prodigy, as well, though you'd most likely already have noticed that."

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"I mean, I wouldn't necessarily be surprised, but does that take a special meaning, here?"

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    "Yes ma'am, it refers to Force sensitives who have enough natural talent with a particular technique to learn it without being taught; they're usually also stronger than other Force-sensitives of comparable overall power with that technique or have an intuitive sense of how to develop new skills and abilities with it or both."

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"...Interesting.  I don't believe I was ever explicitly called out as such.  I doubt the Order would approve; too prideful."

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    "Well, fighting you feels like fighting a prodigy, she says, ma'am."

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"Mhm?  Anything in particular, there?"

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    "She says that unusual tactics that are highly effective is a sign of it, ma'am. It's also a potential sign of it that you weren't sure whether you were using the tutamini technique to assist with disarmament; it's relatively common for a prodigy to unintentionally use their prodigious technique, though of course it's not unheard of for non-prodigy Force sensitives with enough practice."

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"...I feel like it's probably not the discipline of tutaminis, but I could...be persuaded on telekinesis, perhaps?  I'm not sure; if there's something unique going on there I think it's - possibly upstream of telekinesis-related intuition?  Because there are experiences I've tried to explain to others that have never clicked, but I thought it was a failure in word choice."

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    "She does have her notes from when she was taught telekinesis, ma'am; if there's anything listed as being not known to be possible that you can do, that you don't remember being taught by the Jedi, that would be strong evidence."

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"Mmmm, that does seem like something to compare; I never was much one for writing things down, but I do keep holocrons that I could check against at the Temple..."

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    "She says that that's also a good idea, yes ma'am. I can read her notes tonight and have a report for you in the morning, if you'd like."

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"...I'd appreciate that, if it wouldn't impose upon your duty."

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"It's no trouble, ma'am."

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"Then thank you, DZ; I appreciate your assistance in this."

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"You're welcome, ma'am."

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