"You need to work on predicting me, then."

At the exact moment she finishes her statement, the Force twists around them, the world inverting and roiling before suddenly correcting itself with a jolt - 

Though they aren't where they started out anymore. 

Gah!

Ack!

?!?!

What - ?

- Are those weird ?alternate universe? versions of Elesse and Lily and were they just kissing? 

" - Hi???"

What the fuck what the fuck what the fuck.

"...Anakin?"

Frowny face! "Sangua," she corrects. " - You have a me?"

She looks young for that. On the other hand, Weird Lily is also older than her and the wrong ethnicity to be Sangua and Nexuha's Lily, so who knows.

(Sangua stopped pretending to not be a darksider around the same time Sidious did, though she's not sure her Lily has noticed yet.)

"Ours is a lot younger. There are, uh, four of you here now? In total. Um. This isn't our native universe either."

" - I had a vision of another me a little bit back, is that other me one of the ones here?"

" - Sangua," she says, in her best Disappointed Parent Tone.

"...Sorry I didn't tell you."

"She was with me at the time," Sidious says.

(Elesse shivers. Light Palpatine, okay, dark Anakin, okay, dark her... It's just a little creepy.)

...Small sigh. "We'll talk about it later, then." And she eyes weird light Elesse speculatively. (She's not very bothered by dark her. Lily knows what she's like.)

"Perhaps we should introduce ourselves properly?" she suggests.

"A sound idea, Master Jedi. I am Darth Sidious, or Senator Elesse Vendar, as you prefer."

" - I'm Darth Sidious, or Senator Palpatine, or - Lylí, to my friends."

"What an... intriguing coincidence."

" - You might want to avoid the Sidious name here, especially around - certain of the Anakins. It seems it has a... Poor history, in the wider multiverse."

"Noted, thank you."

"Though most Sidious's are Lyli, not, ah, us."

She hums. "And you are?"

"Elesse Vendar, like you. Not a Senator, though. I'm a Jedi. Or was, until we faked my death so I could babysit, bodyguard, and train Anakin."

...That... Implies things Sangua is the opposite of curious about but that Nexuha very much wants to know.

So: "I'm Darth Sangua."