"Aha. I could try to help with the repair work after breakfast if you like. It'd be interesting, I think."

"She's actually not awake yet; she keeps odd hours. I can bring something over for you, though."

"Either way, I have some unfinished projects still."

Nod. "I'll wait until she's set some things aside for you, then."

"See you later then?"

"Mmhmm. See you at lunchtime."

Back to trying to figure out how this little repulsor works, then.

Eventually, lunch: lentil soup, a small loaf of fresh-baked bread, a glass of milk. "Pradnakt will be by when you're done," says Daisy.

He cleans up his tinkering stuff and sits just outside his little house.

She leaves her house just as he's leaving his, datapad in hand. "Nicholas," she nods.

"Lord Pradnakt." He takes deep breaths, clearly anxious, maybe a bit excited.

She grins and heads into his house to sit at his worktable, apparently assuming that he'll follow.

So he does.

She passes over the datapad and a pair of discs. "This pad has most of my notes from when I was an apprentice, and an outline explaining what's available and in what kind of detail. The first thing I'd like you to do is go through it, decide what you'd like to learn, and write that up for me; you can change your mind later, but this will give us an idea of where to start."

"Alright. You said 'danger sense first' at some point...?"

Tap the pad on, start reading.

"Before we start on saber training at the very least, yes. You might want to focus on something else first, though."

The outline is pretty extensive - a standard mundane education, in the first section, with a focus on science and engineering; in the second section, Force-specific topics, everything from meditation and emotional control and channeling, to a list of two dozen lightsaber forms with brief notes on how they differ, to lightsaber design - 'I was at the cutting edge of it, ten years ago', says the note - to various force powers: a long list of sensory powers, from pre- and post-cognition to mindreading to area awareness; telekinesis with various subspecialties; personal enhancements, speed and stealth and so on; lightning generation, mind tricks, animal calming, and similar techniques that don't fall into another group, and new power development. In the third section, Sith-specific topics; history of the Sith, Jedi studies, Sith organization and politics, history of the Sith/Jedi war, and a selection of practical skills that are useful for Sith in particular, everything from hacking to personnel management to torture.

He reads for a good while.

"...I think I want to focus on what you consider general education at first, get ahead of it so it doesn't need attention later. Then some of the important history. That and - basic Force skills. So I can just go when I know what I really want later. When I understand the uses of it all. Probably meditation and channeling?"

She nods. "We'd need to start there anyway, for anything that uses the Force, everything else builds on that."

"I see. To make good decisions on what I want to learn with the Force I need to know more about the things I could learn than just reading about them for a little while. I will want sensory powers though."

She nods. "I can answer any questions you have, certainly. And I've specialized in force senses myself, so that will be easy enough."

"What does precognition do, feel like, how does it work? And the danger sense?"

"It feels a little bit like dreaming, the precog, or sometimes just a flash of intuition. Most people have to be meditating to do it, but if you have an affinity for it you might get the intuition sort even when you're not. The danger sense is a very limited sort of precog, with the advantage that it's reliable; you'll get a flash of intuition any time something is about to threaten you, about what it is and what you should do about it. Once you're used to it, acting on those intuitions becomes automatic, which can save your life in a pinch.

"Do other sensory powers turn into intuition eventually?"

She nods. "Some of them, or just," she shrugs, "part of your environment; I don't go around reading minds by habit, but when I am it's like having a holoprojector running a show in the background; I can watch or not but it's always there."

"...I see. Is there a defense against mindreading? Or other sense powers?"