Cheek-kiss. "Love you too."

Gosh, this moment is so sweet, she's just going to stay in it for a little while.  And maybe it will end, or be ended, but she won't regret a single second spent on it.

Yeah, Pradnakt's not in a rush either, though Daisy does take this opportunity to quietly present them with their lunches.

Lunch is good too, thank you Daisy, you're doing great.

She is great, isn't she?

Nom nom nom... Diana is staring off into space rather than eating; Pradnakt gives her a little nudge and stops sharing the speech effect.

Mmhmm!  She is!

Huh!  Where'd the shiny thing go?

...Oh hi R4!  You're great too!

And don't I know it.  I'm surprised you're not levitating from joy.

Oh!  How dare R4 betray the trust of - okay, actually that's not really that embarrassing from a Sith-like perspective.  Huh!

"R4's been around for a while, even if he wasn't my pilot droid then, and he just reminded me of something that was such a bad Jedi thing but is honestly pretty cute in retrospect?  When I was a youngling and they'd gotten me up to speed on using the Force but not on the emotion repression bits and the not using the Force bits, sometimes when I was really excited I'd just levitate right out of my chair."

"Very cute, yes."

Diana blushes.

"...do you have any fond memories of...before all of this, I guess?"

"Some. I was alone a lot as a kid, but... in a good way. I grew up on a farm planet, humans and ozot, my town was all human but they had an ozot-style creche system for the kids... I didn't get along with my parents, they didn't want a kid who couldn't talk, but it was fine, I didn't need them. Got along with the creche staff just fine, got my classes done fast enough that they just let me do whatever the rest of the time. I spent a lot of time just... out, in the fields or the woods. Liked it a lot. Learned a lot, too. Less... book stuff? Book stuff is also good but seeing the world for yourself is more important."

"I was always in the books, honestly; they were easier to read than the people, even with the Force helping.  And when I was old enough they couldn't stop me from going inside, they basically couldn't keep me out of the machine shop.  Manuals are easier to read than people."

"Somehow I'm not surprised." Cheek-kiss.

Blush.  "I suppose it was honestly your equivalent of the fields, my time in the engineering sectors.  They were, are, the real thing, that you can touch with your hands and see with your eyes and feel in the Force."

"Mmhmm. Not exactly, but yeah."

"...Yeah."  She exhales heavily, a breath expulsed as the moment breaks on her own bittersweet memories, tainted not by the past, but by the ever-encroaching present.  "...you have everything you'll need ready for the funeral service?"

"As much as I'm going to. Daisy, I still want you to - read the poetry, I think."

    "Yes ma'am."

"Alright.  We're doing it after dinner, right?  It...seems the most reasonable time, in my opinion.  ...I don't know who should tell our passengers about it, but uh.  It shouldn't be me."

"I think one of the other... servants, has been with them?"

    "Yes ma'am."

"One of us can ask her to do it. And if she wants to stay with them."

"That would...probably be good."

Squeeze. "You have to meet them where they are, sweetheart."

"...mmhm...It still feels wrong that I'm not doing better."

"It's their lives, you can't do it for them. And you can't - have what I have with Daisy with everyone. Not fair to them to try, even."

"Yeah.  I just - wish it didn't have to be this way, I suppose.  That someone, somewhere, is just...

"Designing slaves that hate having no chains.

"And it's better than having slaves that detest their lot, but it's still...

"It's still fundamentally slavery-shaped.  Droids can't leave.

"And that's the bad thing, I think.  Not - the innate satisfaction from their work, but...having no choice of employer.  At least in most circumstances.

"I'm not sure if this makes any actual sense, but, well.  It's why I mostly don't have any droid crew."

Nod. "But that's not something you're doing. We didn't tell the droid to work with them, she just did. We aren't telling her to go with them, we're giving her the choice. It would be better if she understood more about - how to take all the options she has - but you don't fix that by taking away choices."