"Have you meditated, ma'am?"

"I've let go of the frustration, at the least.  I'm not exactly that...meditative as the Jedi understand the practice?  I don't find that my mind ever really does do the 'clear' thing; it only finds peace when it has a purpose."

"Hmh."

    "She says that that reminds her that she never got back to the meditation she was teaching you, ma'am."

Pradnakt gives Diana's hand a squeeze and gets to her feet, offering her a hand up once she's there.

"Mhm, the - calling up emotions, one?"

Diana doesn't need the hand but she will absolutely take an excuse for handholding.

"Mmhmm." And, back to Diana's room.

Sure, that sounds nice.

'So tomorrow it'll I guess be you and Daisy going through and talking to the holocrons - maybe Nine can help too if you have specific questions in mind but it seems weird to ask the other droids. I think I'll work on getting my speech technique set back up while you're doing that; I might not quite be able to get it but I'm close to the point where I can pull it off at least. And then do you want to try to do the memorial in the evening, or wait until the next morning?'

"In the evening, I think.  I'll need the sleep-cycle afterwards to be at my best in port, and I need to be at my best."

'Yeah. We might need to strategize about that, too, if you're expecting a Jedi to be there for the pickup. I can probably handle it if they notice me, but I'm sure you don't want them noticing me here.'

"...Yeah, that's probably somewhat important; this is more of a potential friendly waypoint that I'm hoping to drop our passengers off at, where they then move on from there, than a priority extraction where you would be expecting a Jedi to move them for speed rather than a smuggler for obscurity, but you never know what the Force will arrange."

Nod. 'You know better than I do what to expect, but better safe than sorry, definitely. Anyway, I should be able to shield well enough for long enough to get through docking and off the ship.'

"...I wonder what happens if we try to link up battle meditation effects?  Anyway, yeah, I suppose that makes sense.  Though I wish it didn't."

'I'm not really trained with battle meditation - I know the basics but it hasn't come up much.' Hug. 'Anyway, it's fine. Not like it's unreasonable of them to be concerned about a Sith.'

"Wonder what the aura would be like, specifically."

"And, yeah, it does.  Just...wish that it wasn't like this."

...Hugs are nice.  She likes hugs.

Yeah. Hugs and snuggles.

'I wouldn't trust my ability to hold onto a light side frame of mind right now but I can work on that, if you want to be able to introduce me someday.'

"Maybe I would."  Mischievous grin.  "We can scandalize the Temple's fuddy-duddies with romantic poetry recitals."

Hehehehehe.

And evening passes, and morning follows.

Diana wakes up early, like she always does, and takes a moment in the dim to center herself, simply letting her sense of what the Force shows her stretch out through the Subtle Knife like an extension of herself.

It's their last full day in transit, so everything that needs to be ready for their arrival, needs to actually be ready.  She might think that's already true, but it never hurts to double-check her work, especially with the way her girlfriend(!) has proven oh-so-distracting recently.

Ahhh, the fluttery feeling of love (for her beautiful girlfriend) and much more solid pride (in well-done work).  There's just R4's input left, and some things she doesn't even think about too loudly until it's time to deploy, like having plausible covers ready for her ship and crew - she's thinking of being a salvager, since she basically was, and then she can be sure they're ready for port.

She takes a moment to check in on her passengers - how are they feeling? - and her stores - R4 could use spare dataspikes, and she definitely needs blaster parts; she's also got to restock on her varietal foods, and some of the staples.

Okay.  She's ready to get up now.

...Oh no, her girlfriend's so pretty and also peacefully asleep and she can't just disturb her, that would be horrible to do!

The passengers are a little bit bored and anxious but basically okay. And Pradnakt seems to be quite soundly asleep.

Well, then.  If she doesn't awaken after some gentle hairpets she probably won't, so if she doesn't, then up Diana gets.

She does need to do the funeral preparations, too.

Hairpets get Pradnakt to stir slightly and make a wordless considering noise, but she doesn't wake.

Daisy has incorporated the holocrons into the little shrine, and labeled them in the process; Diana is welcome to come into the room to work with them, or Daisy can bring them elsewhere if she'd like.

Diana has a speech to write, but she'll definitely do it with the shrine at hand.

Daisy will stand quietly in the corner, then, if she's not needed.