He runs over to one and makes a gesture with his arm, hand moving down with palm up, then touches the jogan tree's trunk and focusing.

A minute passes. The whole tree seems to shiver slightly, creaking. Branches sag under the weight of many fruit suddenly forming and growing, at a speed almost visible to the naked eye.

He blinks and shakes his head. "Oof, this is hard. It's a big plant. I'm gonna run out of green before it finishes. And also it needs a lot of water now."

Then focuses again, and after another minute or two the fruit are something like half-developed, and many of the leaves seem slightly withered and dry. "I'm out now. Can't do any more green today. But I figured out I can tell what plants need too."

6-LOM looks about as impressed as a droid with no visual cues to signal being impressed can look! "Very good! I'll tell the garden people to give it water."

"You didn't know you can tell what plants need? Do you learn new things about your magic often?"

"Magic can do a lot of stuff but you have to figure out the right way to ask it. I was thinking about why making fruit hurts plants."

"It makes it from... things in the plants, that come from the sun, and water, and dirt. If you make the fruit fast, but the plant doesn't have much to make it from, it might hurt it."

"Yeah, I think that's what's happening! It's really cool. I did this when I was hungry and lost but doing it slow might be a better idea, for growing things."

"You could try a little each day, and learn if that grows it a little faster but doesn't hurt it."

"Does green also do things with animals and people?"

"It's not safe to do that if you don't know what you're doing. People kept warning me about it. And I actually believe them because I saw someone's mistake, once."

"What happened? Did someone get hurt?"

"He melted his own arm bones by mistake instead of healing a broken one, and the best doctors in town almost couldn't fix it."

"That's not good!"

"We saw green, and black, and some red, and you don't have blue now... what about white? What do you do with that?"

"That's the lights I showed you! And um - talking things, and thinking things. Like guard rocks that know who is allowed in."

Oh, that's why Nico assumed 6-LOM was magical. "Can white make new people from rocks? Can they talk, and learn things?"

"...Don't think so. Even the healers' pets aren't really people, and they got smarter with Green, not White."

"What other things do the adults from Scope do with magic?"

"Like too many things to even talk about. But I don't know because they wouldn't let me go to school."

"Why not?"

"I told you that already," he grumps, and kicks a nearby rock.

"But why doesn't your dad like schools? Is Kelos the only place that has them? Does he think schools make you like Kelos?"

"Yeah, maybe. The school is in Gale Rocks but it's still very Kelos-y, like the Storm Ward and the baron's house. A baron is kind of like a small king, like Dooku but smaller than that."

"I can say to Dooku now that you want to go to a school in Carannia. He can talk to the school people and get you in."

"I'd like that, thank you! I ran away and wanted to see new places and learn things so school is great! What are schools like here?"

"I haven't seen kids' schools here; I stay at the house with Dooku." 6-LOM calls Dooku on their hologram device.

Well-rested Dooku here! "I can enroll him soon. It's a month into the semester, but I know there are programs set up for sudden transfers that might be able to accommodate him." And of course, plenty of schools would want to respond to a request coming from the Count. "But there are the obvious risks in letting him out of our watch. Tell him to avoid using his powers or telling people he might be from a different galaxy; we don't want this coming to the attention of the Jedi."

6-LOM will translate this! It seems there's a group of warriors called the Jedi who take away children with Force powers, and they might go after Nico if they found out about him. Can he keep quiet about his powers and origin, to make sure they don't find out?

"...Yeah, that seems smart. I don't like it much but it makes sense. At least until I'm older and know more things. Also I know that if I'm a secret to everyone except Count Dooku and you that is probably good for you somehow. Know that I know that, I guess. How do droids work if you're not magic?"