"...why would it cost me to interact with him?"

"Why doesn't it?"

"'Cause it's just a normal part of—I mean, I suppose it costs as much as doing something else with your time, and maybe some people find it more tiring to interact socially, but usually it's worth it and if it's not then you wouldn't have been friends with him before. The cost doesn't become greater when you become a Force user."

"He wouldn't expect you to be more capable of solving his problems?"

"Maybe but I could just tell him 'no' if I didn't want to solve his problems.—that's also another part I don't get, getting powers and not wanting to solve everyone else's problems, but."

"It's not just Jan who's asking, it's also Yan, and Ethera, and everyone you've ever known."

"I'm pretty sure most people wouldn't actually."

"You've spent too long in cloisters. Didn't the Jedi ever take you somewhere the normal people outnumbered you?"

"...they did ever."

"Mm. And what was the purpose of this outing?"

"Volunteer work? That was—mostly it yeah."

Nod.

He shrugs. "It still doesn't sound like it should be a common—and annoying—enough problem that everyone would suddenly resort to 'how about I murder everyone who slightly inconveniences me'."

"Not suddenly. Consider a warrior culture which takes a relaxed attitude to violence and physical injury. Attacking or killing someone who slighted your honor in whatever from, in such a context, is a more immediate response. That capability would be amplified like all others when an individual has access to the Force. The original Sith were, in large part, formed by such a culture."

He frowns. "That makes it even harder to fix."

"Little is ever simple."

Sigh.

"The words of the Code themselves are only a part of the puzzle. The context in which they are taught, understood, and acted upon is at least as important."

He nods. "And again I'm wondering about how you personally—fit in all of this."

"In what respect?"

"What your beliefs are, how you see yourself with respect to other people, Sith or otherwise..."

"I believe that I do not much care for interacting with people on terms I have not set."

"What do you mean by 'terms you have not set'?"

"That I choose the bounds and extents. How long it lasts, what I do, whether it reoccurs."

...he feels strangely happy about that.

"That seems like a reasonable standard for pretty much all relationships, though."