"Until the Sith - yours - is back."

"Ah... she is finally healing her arm with kolto. And-" Felix shakes his head, "sorry for the situation we are putting you all into."

"Mmhmm." She makes a face.

Felix suppresses a sigh. He wouldn't believe it too.

"You could just tell us. You got rid of everyone who might riot."

"That is up to Dusk."

"All right." She gets back to finishing up their plans.

Felix keeps encouraging corrections.

There isn't much else to correct.

Then they can wrap it up and hopefully implement the drills without a problem?

Yup. She'll hold the first one tonight; it'll calm everyone down.

That is good. Hopefully it goes along well.

Reasonably well. They'll get better with practice.

Hopefully. Is there anything besides practice that needs addressing?

There are a couple places where it's hard to hear the overhead speakers.

Okay, that sounds like an easy fix.

Yeah, they can just adjust the volume, mostly.

If that doesn't solve it, they could just add more speakers.

Nah, the remaining two just need to be adjusted to face a little differently.

Okay, good. Does that solve the issue?

Yup.

And Dusk comes along. According to Daisy, she's still healing at about a third the rate they'd normally expect from a kolto tank, but she is healing, a little faster each day, and after a week Daisy stops by to ask the Dalkailas: "At what point do you want to let her out?"

"Might depend how much of a setback it would be to let her out just so we can make the announcement? We are mostly afraid that waiting too much is going to hurt our chances of getting people in on the project."

"Mmhmm. And I think she could do that now; it does mean that much longer before she's back in fighting form, though, you're right."

"And I don't want to see her suffer and she is an extremely competent fighter... but I think at the moment more dreamshapers are a better way to boost our defenses."