"Master Deskyl doesn't think it will be useful for you to spar again tonight, but says that if you'd like to try channeling your emotions into some exercises, she might be able to offer some useful observations."

"Well, let's see what we can do, then...I'm not actually really quite sure what that's even supposed to mean?  I'm sure I've ever -" she flings a hand out, releasing a burst of that strange not-Ionize she found - "done any such thing, but I'm not really certain how to tell if I'm putting...emotion, into Force push, in a meaningful way?"  She hums, and idly telekineses her training sabers back away.  "Especially if my telekinesis is weird!  Which it might be!  ...You know what would really show results if I was able to do something emotey with them, though....my enhancement exercises.  ...But no spotter...  Kriff.  And the Dark doesn't exactly heal very well, no?"

    "She says that Sith are still sturdier than forceblind people, ma'am, what did you have in mind?"

"No, I mean that the problem is that I could mess up and not be able to fix it, since I don't know if I understand what I'm doing there enough to alter the technique that way.  Though, the Force guides me...

"...I'll try it, I think.  And if my danger sense goes off...then I'll stop.

"Keep an eye on me, would you, Deskyl?"

And then...Diana starts meditating, focusing seeking-understanding and drive-to-improve and determination into the practiced moves of her bodily reinforcement techniques...

Oh, dammit.

    "-Ma'am?"

"Gbwuh?"  She barely started, so it's pretty easy to get her to stop, right now.

    "I'm sorry, ma'am, Master Deskyl is worried about the Force arranging a coincidence that might hurt you - it appears to want her to tell you that she's a healing prodigy, and she thought she still had time to think about how she wanted to approach the discussion, but she'd rather not wait if you're going to do something risky."

"Oh, for your own sake, Force, you could be less dramatic about the coincidentally-relevant stuff!  Is there going to be some sort of huge emergency in the next n days that requires me beyond my peak of capability or something?!"

Deskyl sighs and glares at nothing in particular.

    "She says not that she knows of, ma'am, but one of you should probably meditate on it - there is a chance that Lord Pritruth has sent someone after you. It can wait until you're done with this, though."

Diana finds Deskyl's expression to be quite a same mood.

"Yeah, I'll do that tonight.  Is there anything you'd need to prep to just - whap me with this if I'm about to do something horrible?"

Oh hey, it's the single-blade training saber.

"I know there's a thing about training sabers but frankly it's the only way to get me out of this once I'm going."

    "That's fine, ma'am, she doesn't especially mind using it as a tool. She also wonders if it might be worth using her telepathy so that you can borrow her healing sense."

"...That sounds like it'd be very helpful.  If you're willing.  And the Force doesn't do...anything especially weird about it."

    "It does use up the buffer of how long she can spend in telepathy with you without forming a permanent bond more quickly than just speaking, ma'am, but she'll be able to warn you if it's getting low and end it without your cooperation if it gets dangerously low."

"This seems like the best possible sort of use, then."

    "Yes ma'am. How would you like her to handle it if the buffer gets dangerously low when you're in the middle of using the healing sense?"

"...Well that's a question!  It's one I think I have to go for 'saber whap' on?  As much as honestly I'm half convinced that the permanent bond won't hurt anything?  But only half, so...precautions."

    "Will abruptly disrupting you be safer for you than just ending the connection without warning, ma'am? Master Deskyl is particularly concerned with the case where it gets dangerously low while you're doing something that requires the healing sense in order to be done safely."

"...Yeah if that happens then just...bonds are less potentially-bad than sudden disastrous bodily disruption!"

"...well.  I don't know if that's true.  Think it is.  But I can't know, I've not exactly had one before.  And - it's your mind too.  You should have a say."

    "From your perspective it won't feel like anything much, ma'am, unless Master Deskyl causes it to, which she can undo at any time. From her perspective it's similar to having a window into your mind whenever you're in range, which will start at thirty feet and is likely to grow over time; she can try to avoid looking through the window, but it takes an amount of active effort and she can't guarantee that she'll never see anything you would have preferred her not to. She does expect that it would be better than bodily disruption but the risk is mostly to you."

"Well.  I'm already trusting you with far more, just with this, so...do it, then."

Nod.

    "Yes ma'am."

Deskyl moves to sit next to Diana, knees touching, and sets the training saber in her lap before settling in to meditate; after a moment there's the same gentle sense of Deskyl's presence in Diana's mind, joined by a slightly firmer awareness of how the Jedi's body looks to Deskyl's healing sense - it's not remarkable in a way that makes itself obvious at first glance, though she is in absolutely perfect health and excellent fighting form, and after a moment Deskyl notices that she's also younger, in a biological sense, than she seems to be chronologically.

And Diana begins her meditation, this time additionally tinged with feelings of care and protectiveness and trust, and reaches out to the Force...And the Force listens.

Not just to the expectations of itself about what a human's peak should be, but to Diana's thoughts about what she wants to become, which range far wider.

Far wider, yes.

If she's not going to be human, what will she be?

Diana...wants to be quick.  (React faster, think better, recover sooner, move with more speed.)

She wants to be keen.  (Be precise, efficient, have better reflexes, never miss an opportunity to reach her goals.)

She wants to be sharp.  (Focus on important things, keep in mind more things, spot the lurking ambush, the concealed doorway.)

She wants to bring her utmost effort to bear.  She wants to endure the trials set before her.  She wants to be stronger.  She wants to help people flourish.  That one goal is the bedrock of her soul, Force help her, and she pursues it even through the darkest moments.  Can the Force help her with that a bit more?