"Yeah. She looks at everything in terms of what she wants, and that definitely affects what she will and won't do, but - she lets herself do nice things for people, she doesn't make herself do them."

"That sounds like a real nice set up."

"Mmhm. She gets frustrated when she can't, but that's not such a bad problem."

"That sounds more healthy than being wracked with guilt over not being a god."

"I'm not that bad."

"Well, you're going to be doing a lot of good here, anyway. Dusk's planning in phases, and she hasn't really gotten to the long-term stuff yet, but she's definitely taking advantage of not having any resource constraints."

"No resource constraints are really great. She is welcomed to."

"Mmhmm," she grins.

And a few weeks later, Pradnakt reports that she's found them a planet; a nicely forested one that's unclaimed because of its lack of resources and tendency toward infrastructure-damaging hailstorms in the areas that are easiest to build on.

They are equipped to completely ignore these constraints and just move there.

Felix and Trevor visited the city a few times since they moved in with Dusk, they even met some people that became acquaintances, but no one that actually clicked as friends. Regardless, Felix says goodbye to some and gifts some others with credits other things they needed and Felix can just give now that he doesn't have to continuously endure their scrutiny.

Dusk spends the few days they're gone getting everything packed up, with the droids' help, and has a spaceship recommendation for Felix when he gets back.

She spends most of the trip sequestered in her room, with only Daisy - and a few times Green or Nine - welcome to visit with her.

Well, that isn't that much different from her usual behavior. The Dalkaila hang out with the droids too.

At least it's not a long trip.

She has another set of blueprints for them when they get there; it features temporary housing and group dining facilities for a thousand families and permanent living quarters for a few hundred. "I can have our first batch of prospective dreamshapers here a week or so after you have this ready."

Of course. The blueprints are brought into existence as specified, plus Felix's dimension for over decorating.

She has the droids strip the decorations off and pack them up, and after the promised week a transport ship arrives to trade four large shipping containers for them.

The following few weeks are full of interviews and observation; nearly half of the ex-slaves are disqualified for being too violent - not surprising, when she specifically requested troublemakers - and another third are removed from consideration over the dreamshard's reports of dangerous dimensions or ones that would generate people, leaving thirty-six of the original two hundred; with their families, it's a bit over sixty people that she sends to Felix and Trevor for a second round of interviews.

Felix and Trevor might not have psychic powers, but they have the advantage of not being scary Sith and these people won't guess anything from wing color.

Given the previous filtering this round is mostly figuring out people that can work with the Dalkaila and Dusk both personality-wise and skill-wise.

None of them have any especially impressive skills; most of them had been assigned to farming, or factory work, or other manual labor. Two of them have experience at cooking for large groups; one was a pilot; one knows how to repair droids; another four have management experience.

All of them are stressed enough that it's hard to gauge their personalities, though some are handling it worse than others.

That is entirely reasonable. The point of figuring out their skills is mostly a way to have a excuse to talk to them and get a insight on their intelligence. They also ask trolley problems and similar variety of things.

It's probably not standard while dealing with slave, but the ones that are handled worse can take a break (under the pretext that whatever their goal is, it's not going to be achieved if the slave is too nervous.)

(This probably only has partial success.)

They don't get very far with the trolley problems; mostly they're just confused by them, and transparently guess at what they think the brothers want to hear.

Daisy stops by after the first time they assign someone to take a break, to say that it's a good idea and suggest that they give all the prospective dreamshapers and their families a month to relax, and in the meantime let everyone else go.

True. The ones released can get enough credit to last a while and transport for places nearby. If any of the less violent newly-freed would rather stay because they are friends with the families or something they could be offered that too? They are open to suggestions. Regardless, families can relax for a month in the nice conjured facilities.

None of them want to stay, but a few of them are friendly enough with the others to seek them out to say goodbye before they go.

A few days later, one of the children still under consideration for dreamshaping - both his parents are here, too, his mother is also a prospective dreamshaper but his father's dimension would have people in it - seeks Trevor out. "How come they get to go and we don't?"

"The exact details are a secret, sorry. I know this place isn't freedom, but I hope is not too bad?"

He wishes for the 10,000th time that slavery was something he could solve by throwing hurricanes at the problem.

"It's not bad, but I want to go home."

He kinda looks like he could use a hug.

Good lord. Okay, this is technically Felix's domain but... "Do you need a hug?"