That makes sense.

(She sort of wants to ask more about how droid mind design works, but it seems like a fraught topic and she isn't that interested.)

(Also, having heard Daisy's actual build in addition to their backstory, she's pretty convinced that Daisy is not mind control happy at this point. She's still not sure what she's here for, though.)

(Maybe she shouldn't be reading too much into it and her path isn't that targetedly optimized.)

What were they talking about... fighting Scion. It doesn't sound like they have immediate headway on the problem, except that Rebecca might want to get Hero back if they're going the tech route, but that's possibly long term. Unless Rebecca was dropped here to complete the circuit, and they're meant to satisfy The Rescuer with the resources here at their disposal, so Rebecca can share it with Dusk and Daisy...

She's overthinking it. She'll have more information tomorrow.

Was there anything else Daisy wanted to talk about?

"Hm -" They're going to need to think about logistics sooner or later; does Rebecca want the guest room set up any particular way? What kind of schedule does she like to keep? What kinds of things does she like to eat? Daisy likes to cook, so it's no imposition if Rebecca wants food even though she doesn't strictly need it.

She doesn't need any particular set up, whatever they have is fine. She might want instruction on how to correctly use the bathroom facilities if they're different from what she's used to? She tries to send the Earth schema. She may get a full night's sleep just for the novelty for it, but her reduced sleep requirements and lack of pre-existing schedule mean she has no current preference on when to wake up. Though she will need to know in advance when she should set an alarm, if they want to be aligned.

She would be pleased to eat with them, though she doesn't need it to survive, yes. (She has a feeling that this is the correct answer.) They might have different cuisines in their worlds so she's happy to be surprised. She might develop more preferences once she tries some. She can also try to acquire some Earth recipies from Dressing Room, if Daisy is interested in learning new foods or Dusk is interested in trying them.

(It is a bit surreal to have the time to take naps and eat food, but... she does, now. Her schedule is clear for the first time in decades.)

Dusk's natural sleep schedule has her sleeping from a few hours before sunrise until about noon and she likes having the night to herself, so any relatively-normal schedule will work fine with hers, and Daisy and Nine don't sleep at all. Daisy usually cooks on Dusk's schedule - breakfast around noon, lunch a little before sunset, dinner around midnight or 1 am - but she won't mind making an extra meal earlier in the day, and she's definitely interested in learning Earth recipes, though they don't have a good source of milk yet, the locals don't use it very much. The bathroom works like this. (The design uses touch-sensitive patches rather than levers or knobs, but the basic principles are roughly same as on Earth, at least from a user's perspective.)

To start with, she'll retire to her room a few hours before midnight, and sleep midnight to sunrise; does that work? She will take breakfast and lunch on Dusk's schedule for now and see how it goes. Is Dusk a light sleeper? Rebecca can be very quiet because she can fly, but for reference.

Rebecca may be able to Dressing Room milk if she changes into a historical milkman (milkwoman?) outfit with the milk carrier as a handheld accessory. And she'll see about the recipes and any other interesting books. A lot of her nighttime private hours will probably just be trying to get things out of Dressing Room.

That all sounds fine, and milk would really be appreciated. She doesn't need to worry about noise, Dusk's room is thoroughly soundproofed - crafting is good for that - but strong emotions might wake her. And Daisy does want to show Rebecca the room before she's going to want it; it's set up in the local style and she might find that claustrophobic and/or confusing, but if she doesn't like it it's easy for Daisy to convert it to something more designed for humans.

Alright, do they want to do that now?

That seems reasonable.

The guest room is more like a small studio apartment than a room, with a sitting area in the front and a kitchenette off to one side. The bed is the unusual part; it's entirely enclosed, with a sliding door to separate it from the rest of the room, and there's a bank of buttons inside, labeled with various glyphs, that do things like change the temperature or firmness of the sleep surface or control a fan or make a portion of the ceiling transparent for a skylight.

That sure is a bed.

Daisy is right; Rebecca is not a huge fan of that. She would appreciate Daisy's help remodelling it into something more like an Earth-style twin bed, if it's not much of a bother. Is Daisy planning to do it by crafting? She is a bit curious.

She is, yes - both the buildings were made with crafting and Rebecca is welcome to change the colors in here around to her liking, or make other modifications as she learns to do more with the magic. For now, Daisy will condense the crafting material making up the walls of the bed enclosure into a few dense nuggets, and adjust the lip around the padded surface to extend the softness all the way to the edge. She leaves the control panel and water dispenser (and the flexible tube its water is delivered through) intact, but expands some of the condensed crafting material back out to make a bedside table and separates them from the rest of the bed to set them onto it, then adds a lamp that will turn on or off when the base is touched.

Does that look all right to Rebecca?

It looks excellent.

That was really fast. What level of crafting proficiency is Daisy at, in terms of months of practice by the median learner? She didn't grok before how... powerful crafting is, in an everyday sense. Do Crafters casually shape their environment like this, all the time? She supposes they leave it once they have it the way they like, but they must think that non-Crafters are so terribly restricted, having to machine everything they want the hard way.

They do reshape things very casually like that - Rebecca will notice when she meets them that they almost always have some extra crafting material with them in the form of accessories to their outfits or carried objects like walking sticks, so that they always have something to turn into whatever kind of tool or object they want. Daisy is intermediate in skill, she thinks - she's figured out a few more things than the Crafters consider a normal amount that everyone would know as an adult, for example she's getting kind of okay at making custom food plants, but she's not close to the cutting edge of things at all. She's not sure how that would translate to focused time spent learning it for someone with normal capabilities.

Rebecca does have Anything You Can Do, so hopefully she'll be able to catch up in no time.

What time is it, by the way?

It's around ten thirty; it's spring, so the sunsets are pretty late right now.

Daisy isn't sure how Anything You Can Do works in its details; if it turns out that how the other person feels about Rebecca matters more than how she feels about them, she might do best to work on getting along with Dusk even though Daisy is the one she'll want to learn crafting from, since Daisy's emotional landscape is so focused on her.

She suspects that the main rate limit of her learning will be whichever fleshcrafter she can manage to beg tutoring off—she can commute if the local one isn't open to students or doesn't like her—but on general principle she tries to get along with people. Does Daisy have any tips on getting along with Dusk?

She may retire for the night soon, to sort out her own thoughts.

Dusk is changing a lot right now which makes it harder to give specific advice, but she has noticed that Rebecca is less focused on people and emotions than Dusk is; Dusk is certainly good enough with pragmatic things when it counts, but that's not how she connects with people. Sharing poetry or other art with her is likely to go over well, if there's any that Rebecca particularly likes, or sparring with her is probably still a good option.

Rebecca might be able to dig up Earth literature, but she's is not personally a particularly artsy person—she tried painting for a bit and is reasonably competent at the technicals but never produced anything particularly inspired. But she can absolutely do sparring. Though Rebecca is unclear if there's a power differential there (in her homeworld Rebecca vastly outclasses most other superpowered people) and wonders if Dusk would be irritated if Rebecca has to hold back?

She can definitely turn up her general personableness; she just wasn't operating in that sort of mindspace because of the circumstances of their meeting and because—it can be parsed as manipulative, sometimes? And she wanted to avoid that.

For emotions, is that mostly a way of saying to attempt to connect on a personal level, or should Rebecca be trying to be more emotionally expressive against Dusk's emotion-sense?

There might well be a power differential; she doesn't expect Dusk to mind very much if Rebecca has to hold back, though also Dusk might surprise her - Force training comes with a few unexpected abilities in that area, and she'll leave it to them to decide when Rebecca should be told about them.

For engaging with her emotionally - probably Daisy should see what that reaction earlier was about before she tries to give specific advice, there are some circumstances where Dusk might react badly to generic personableness; her master who tried to kill her was fairly charismatic in that way. Trying to connect with her as an individual is more likely to go well, Daisy thinks. Being extra emotional will probably not help - Dusk is picking Rebecca's emotions up just fine, she wouldn't be as comfortable around her as she is if that wasn't the case, she's just not generally going to react to them unless she's invited to.

Alright, so work on common interests, share things about herself and engage with Dusk on a personal level, standard friendmaking runbook. She can do that.

Oh, and maybe Daisy can lend Rebecca some resources on learning Dusk's sign language?

She'll want to ask Dusk about the sign language first but she bets she can talk her into it as long as Rebecca has been warned not to let on that she knows it if she finds herself in their world; it's a Sith language and they'd be dangerously offended if they found out. (She seems somewhat delighted at the prospect of Rebecca learning it.)

She didn't know there was specific history behind it. She can keep a secret, and it seems fairly unlikely that circumstances will conspire to find her there and have it slip and have her not powerful enough to hold her own by that time, and similar for Daisy and Dusk, if she means they might get in trouble for teaching Rebecca.

It would be good to be able to talk without needing to filter everything through translation! It would make it easier to connect. And Rebecca just likes knowing languages. Even before she was chosen by the Spirit, she was very good at picking them up and knew most commonly spoken languages in her world.

It's very reasonable to want to pick up one of Dusk's languages, especially if she likes languages in general. Dusk also has the spoken Sith language and Basic, the latter of which isn't secret at all, so Rebecca will be able to learn a language to talk to her in even if it's not the sign language in particular. Daisy's also a little curious how Rebecca would do with the droid language; biologcals usually have a hard time picking that one up.

She would like to learn those as well! She is not normally enthusiastic enough about linguistics to want to learn three in a short span with overlapping use cases and origins, but there is a certain novelty to alien languages, and it'll let her read their books.

And now she's interested how droid language is different from biological ones.

The droid language - it's called Binary, in Basic, but that's not an accurate description of it - is very information-dense and not designed for biological vocal apparatuses at all, though it is designed to be aesthetically inoffensive to biologicals; she produces a demonstrative series of beeps and warbles and points out how the various aspects of it relate to the sentence 'it's good to make new friends'.

That's fascinating. She definitely can't pronounce those, but if biologicals can learn to understand it, just with difficulty, she's sure she can, maybe especially with her Dragon Fairy Elf Witch of Nine.

Wait, actually, if she tries to reproduce those sounds, willing them to come out of her—she tries a few different mental configurations—no, it doesn't look like she picked up the relevant apparatus from Nine.

And yes, it is good to make new friends! Especially with how hospitable Daisy (and Dusk) are being.

It is getting late, though, so further language acquisition may better wait until tomorrow. When's the hangout with the locals tomorrow?