"And if we wait for her full recovery we might lose some candidates and we will have to wait until we get another batch."

"And she didn't want to go in in the first place. I'll let her out."

Then they can prepare things for the announcement once Dusk is out.

She's out later that same day. She stops by their office late in the afternoon; at a first glance she looks fine, aside from the still-healing saber burn, but they're familiar enough with her by now that the slight droop to her shoulders and eagerness to sit down are telling.

"Hello, Dusk. I hope you're well. Did Daisy explain the situation?"

"Mmhmm. We should talk about strategy, if you're going to be taking over defense."

"Of course."

She nods, and adjusts herself in the chair - to lean a bit more on it, subtly. "The main thing to consider when you're fighting Sith is that our power comes from our emotions. The way to defeat a Sith is to escalate hard and fast; annoying one is to their advantage, not yours."

Felix nods. "I wasn't aware of that. ...I can escalate pretty fast though. Maybe not as fast as and suddenly as that attack that killed the Sith. That required preparing the sky for a bit."

"Yeah, that was -" headshake. "It doesn't have to be that much. You do want to avoid giving them the chance to do something nasty to you, though."

Nod. "I was relying too much on the fact that I should be able to recover from anything. Which is stupid, I can't save anyone if I'm growing a new body."

"And we don't know what this would have done to that."

Nod. "And that, yes."

"So speed is important. Stealth, too; I can make it harder for them to notice you through the Force for a while. - or permanently, maybe; that brings us to the other thing I wanted to mention."

"Yes?"

She sinks into the chair a little further. "My dimension can do more than just the lightning; it seemed like a good idea to keep something in reserve, but -" shrug. "The statues are magic, some of them - one in thirty, maybe. And even the ones that are won't all work for a particular person. But when they do, they can give out powers, and I can make ones that give out particular powers."

"Oooh, what sort of powers?"

"How much control do you have over their traits? This sounds useful."

"A good amount of control. They're similar to Force powers, but less limited - I gave myself telepathy that works with droids, the Force can't do that. They won't have - side effects - but I could build something that didn't do what you wanted if I misunderstood you. And they have to suit the person they're for, and it takes a while to recharge the statue afterward if we want to reuse it."

"Still, this sounds like a huge asset. Just hiding us from Force users would help us tremendously. I'm not sure one of you would be able to notice us manipulating the weather if we are suitable."

Nod. "You're already less obvious, not being Force users, but it would help with that - might have to make it specifically to mute down the weather manipulation in order to affect that, the regular Force effect would just hide your presence, but I expect I can do it, you don't have - big personalities, in a way that would interfere."

"What sort of things do you know that you can do?"

"I haven't found anything I can't, yet - sense powers, movement powers, attacks - I haven't tried much with defense, but I can do some things - utility, I was working on a teekay for Daisy and that was going fine - I could probably do healing, Jedi can do that; I might not be able to take it, but you could."

"Oooh, that would be delightful."

"I'll do it next after the blur, then. Blur shouldn't take long, I don't know about healing as much. Anything else you want?" She includes Trevor in this question.