"...If there is anything you want to say, you can say it. I won't mind."

He shakes his head.

Felix puts a wing around Runil's shoulders for a moment, but then changes his mind.

He shudders just a little, folding in on himself, and then shakes it off enough to run back the way he came.

Yes, that was stupid.

The next day, Runil's mom gets a box of knitting supplies. Very nice ones.

She's flustered and thankful, and over the next few days a few more people ask for things, too - playing cards, a drawing pad, a set of balls for a game they can play in the cafeteria if they move the tables out of the way.

They start catching Runil lurking outside their offices. Whenever they spot him he runs away.

Trevor reads Runil's file.

Does Runil want to talk to Felix if he comes over?

According to the file, his family was captured in a war on their home planet some three months ago, and sold into slavery from there. It seems like he's actually being somewhat better-behaved for them than would have been expected; he'd repeatedly gotten into shouting matches with his overseer and cursed out everyone who considered buying his family.

He won't run if they approach him somewhere other than outside their offices. 'Want to talk' might be stretching it.

Felix asks, once, if there is anything that Runil would like to ask or say. But does not press the issue.

Yeah, not so much.

Days pass. Dusk surveys the area and comes up with a plan to monitor it; they'll need more droids, and those she wants to get in person, once things are settled enough here that she's comfortable being away for a few weeks. She spends her days installing cameras, and waits.

The Dalkaila ask Daisy if it wouldn't be better if the two of them went droid shopping. They can just not overbuy this time.

If they're getting older droids they really need someone along who knows about droid socialization, too; if they're not they can just order some.

Daisy wouldn't count? Or she doesn't want to leave for that long? Is this something they could learn?

Daisy's keeping an eye on things for Dusk; if she and they left people would have to interact with her if they needed anything, and that's kind of cruel to ask of them.

One of the Dalkaila could leave while the other stayed to interface?

That could happen, sure. She'll find out where Dusk was planning to go.

They thank her.

It turns out she was just going to go to the nearest big city; there aren't really specific places for getting old droids. It'll be several days but they should be back in time for the announcement.

Cool, and since Trevor is not the one that can make material on demand he is the one gets to go.

Dusk recommends a cargo-hold-full of various shinies (nothing that'd help the war effort, nothing that'd be surprising to be unable to trace or otherwise raise suspicion, nothing that'd suggest the planet or anything in its direction from their destination) and off they can go.

While Felix stays behinds and interfaces with the slaves and creates things as they are request. If Dusk is willing to let him help with cameras, he will do that. This still gives him enough downtime that he does a lot of weather-management to make the hailstorms less of a problem.

She shows him how to put up the cameras and how to figure out where they should go, and brings him with her most of the time when she's out placing them, on a pair of smaller, more agile speeders suited to the terrain.