"Considering." Nod. "Daisy can go in and get me, regardless, she doesn't set it off."

"It's just her?"

"Mmhmm. It's mostly based on how I feel about people; the more they don't belong there the harder it is to let them stay. It's the type of control I have a lot of practice with, but I'm not sure I even get the option when I'm awake - I'd guess yes, but that's not really good enough. But Daisy's Daisy, she's fine regardless."

Nod nod. "There are some... tricks that we can do using two dimensions and portals to make an area less accessible, but I'm unsure if they're that useful when you're defending against Sith."

Shrug. "It depends on how they work."

"The trick is making defenses that can't be crossed without portals. This is easier with two or more coordinating dreamshapers. One creates a section of a corridor in dimension A with no doors at the end and only a solid thick wall. To get to the other side they must go through a portal and go to dimension B and cross a similar section of corridor and then go back to dimension A and so on. It's also possible to create a trapdoor portal or have tiny portals to let gunfire go through without letting your enemy shoot back."

She nods. "I'll have to check my notes to see if there's a way for you to open my portals - they're keyed to Force effects - but it'll be pretty trivial for me to make ones that automatically open for Sith and only Sith."

Nod. "Mine are keyed to warmth and fire. I'm not sure if I can aim for Sith, but I think I can aim for Force user."

"Mmhmm. Fire's convenient; there are Force effects for that, but they're obscure."

Nod. "Because they're harder or not as strong?"

"Not as versatile. We can add all kinds of effects to lightning; fire's more one-trick."

Nod. "In the meantime, is there anything we should do until buying the droids?"

"We could get started on the infrastructure."

"Of course."

She ponders for a second, and then shrugs. "We should test how the dreamshard's projections work through portals before anything else; it would make sense to set up a bunker for the noncombatants out by my fallback position, but only if it's not going to give it away the instant we close portals here."

 "Sure. I will retrieve it from storage then."

"No, it's, ah, plenty audible from where it is."

"Ah, okay. What is the nature of the testing?"

"Open a portal someplace else, close this one, close the other one too, see what that does at each stage. Maybe try it when the only open path is through my dimension, depending on the results of that."

Okay, they do that. Results?

When there's any open portal, she can hear it from that portal. With no portals open at all, the shard is noticeably quieted, and then after a moment it stops entirely. "That's strange. I think it can tell whether you have a portal open or not."

"You think it's... making a decision to shout in the Force?"

Nod. "It would have just kept going, otherwise; we didn't do anything to it. - You should make sure it's still there."

He checks. It's still there.

Oh good.

"We should have a look at how my dimension interacts with it, too - the more that thing acts like a person the more I think I might have an advantage there."