She nods. "There's a way to mask your presence from anything that's generally-targeted. Sense powers that target you in particular are easier to notice, but generally harder to block; it comes down to a contest of strength, usually."

"I want that. The generally-targeted-defense, and any other stealth I can work on."

She nods. "All right."

"Do you think you could explain some more about the differences between lightsaber forms? And why lightsabers are actually good compared to blasters or something? Besides working well with the danger sense, I can see that much."

"A Sith with a saber can defeat anyone with a blaster," she shrugs, "mostly on versatility. Blasters have range, sure, but Sith are fast, and range doesn't help when we can deflect blaster bolts. Plus most conflicts between Sith are resolved by saber fights; you'll have to be amazing at stealth for that never to come up."

"...When it's time to learn saber, I want to see the different forms and then pick one."

"Depends on how you do with the danger sense; probably in at least a year. You'll want at least three or four, though, they're good for different things -" she goes through the list and describes them; most just vary in how much they focus on attack versus defense, but several of them have other strengths - 'good for fighting a larger opponent', 'good for close quarters or when you need to avoid damaging things', 'lets you make the best use of a speed boost', and so on. "I can demonstrate all of those for you."

"Okay. I want to learn about Saber design too."

"Certainly. Just the basics, or the more advanced things too?"

"Probably advanced stuff. I don't know much of anything about them now beyond 'extremely dangerous'."

"There's a diagram of the basic circuit in the notes, if you're curious now; they're not very complicated until you start trying to do things like change the shape of the blade."

"I will definitely look at that later."

She grins.

"Any other questions?"

"...I think I might have felt Force things already, a little bit. But I was reading something about how humans can trick themselves pretty easily, so I'm really not sure."

"It's possible, at your age, especially since you knew to pay attention. What did you notice?"

"I could - see - that my little sister was about ready to be born. I knew it before Mom did."

"Yeah, that's the sort of thing you'd get. And a good sign, if you like the idea of precognition."

"It felt more like a life thing? Like, there she is, she's done."

Nod. "All the sense powers are strongest when you're sensing people you're related to," she adds. "The Force is about life, in many ways. That's why we can't sense droids any better than any other machinery."

He nods thoughtfully. "There were a couple more little things but that was the big one."

"Mmhmm."

"If you're ready, you can start with the basic meditation exercise today."

"Yes, Lord Pradnakt."

She nods, and explains the basics of meditation - nothing Sith-specific, yet, beyond a mention that he might feel the Force when he succeeds, just instructions on how to relax and clear his mind. "You won't be able to do it for very long, at first - a moment or two, really. It'll get easier with practice. What worked best for me was lots of short practice sessions through the day, any time I had a spare minute or felt like taking a break from what I was doing; some people do better setting aside an hour or more at a time and just working at it until they get it. You should try both, and do whatever seems to work better."

"...I should try this. Somewhere else. If relaxing is important."

She nods. "You'll want a dedicated space for it, eventually; you should also work on figuring out what you'd like that to be like. In the meantime, wherever is most comfortable should be fine. - I should mention, if you want to go out into the scrub, that's fine; if you get lost, stay where you are and wait, and I'll come find you."