::I can just fucking imagine how that would have gone.  But, no specific person is obliged to help a soul, regardless of the way that, at least as far as my ethics are concerned, all sapient life deserves to get what it needs to self-actualize - modulo the old Wiccan Rede. ("Do what thou wilt, an' it harm none.")  It's honestly quite the paradox.  But at least in human-typical brains...we want to help people, and it's taken so much effort by the greedy and the mad:: (as in angry, not as in 'experiencing reality a bit off-center') ::, to train out the helpful reflexes we had.::

::...I'm sure I could go on, but I don't want to.  That way lies despair.  Which would suck, for everyone.::

::It does, yeah. Anyway, are we done out here?:: It's warm enough to be unpleasant, though it only really seems about as hot as it was earlier when Daisy took her to get Nine, despite being further along into the heat of the day.

::Yeah, let's get back inside.::

Diana waves her staff around a bit, to add her environment shielding to the mix.

It seems to take an extra half-second or so for her environmental shielding to kick in, though it works fine once it does.

::Was that you, just then?::

"Hm? - Oh -" ::Yeah, I've been buffering the heat for you, but that doesn't actually change how hot it is, so an effect that works on the real temperature doesn't help until it gets below the buffer.:: She heads in.

::Oh, thank you.  ...I am suddenly interested in finding all the edge cases of that ability and seeing what happens, but I imagine you've done that already.::

Inside she goes as well!

::It's related to the Force effects I have for poison and pain - I can block poison from working by stopping it from doing certain chemical reactions, and the physical damage of heat is also chemical reactions. Pain has a biochemical component to it too, plus a sensation component, and heat also has that direct sensation component that I can block.::

::Huh.  Have you ever tried cooling something down with telekinesis?::

::It's not a great tool for it; wrong scale. I could figure out how to cool something down with the Force if I wanted to, though.::

::Neat.  I got our telekinetic back home to learn something like that; she had a really bad fire-phobia.  It helped.::

::For something like that it'd be easier to just put the fire out directly, for me.::

::I don't really know the details of what precisely she ended up doing; I just held the lighter.  And her, sometimes.::

Heh.

::...I hope she's okay.::

"Mm." ::I was going to see if the Force had anything to say about why you're here; I can see if there's a prognosis on getting you back while I'm at it, if you want.::

::That sounds like a good idea.::

::All right.:: She leans back against the table and closes her eyes.

::It's not no, to either, but it's not... pointed? Insofar as you're here for something it's - broad, holistic, on the spectrum that goes 'save a specific person's life' 'teach a kid a thing' 'be friends with someone for a year' 'start a school' it's on the 'start a school' end, and I don't think there's a specific outcome it's aiming for, either, it feels more like a fuzzy cloud of possibilities. And for getting you home there's an option but it's not something we can do right now and the Force isn't inclined to help with figuring it out yet - I can try twisting its metaphorical arm about it if you want me to but it's not likely to work.::

::I think twisting its metaphorical arm probably wouldn't help, either.  But...start a school, huh?  Interesting.::

::You could. You might not want me around for it, though, depending on what kind. People don't like being around Sith if they can help it, and especially not letting their kids be.:: Which hurts, for all that she's casual about it.

::Yeah, but you're nice.  And I don't want to give out power and responsibility to children, anyway; realistically I shouldn't be doing the stuff I've done, let alone the rest of the Team!  But, uh...superheroics tends to run in families, unfortunately.  I'm actually the odd one out on that front; I was only planning on being a firefighter/EMT.::

::Oh they're not going to trust that I'm nice even slightly, if they know I'm a Sith; we're slippery.:: She seems amused, now, and more than a little fond. ::What kind of school do you have in mind, though, it sounds like you're thinking of something specific.::

::Well, it all depends on how the kybers turn out, but - I don't want to be the only Lantern ever; so, y'know, maybe I'll teach what I can.::

::Huh.::

::Going to want to think about how to stop your students from getting claimed by the Sith as a resource, that'll be an issue.::

::The only thing my Ring does and my Lantern doesn't is finesse, and my Lantern is in perfect working order.  But the graduates...and it does depend on how this experiment goes.  It's worth thinking about.::