"And hopefully Blue would like the extra defense."

"Yeah, that's part of why I think it'll suit them." She stretches, apparently less carefully than she ought to from the wince that it evokes, and then sighs. "I should rest soon, if I'm going to be there for the announcement tomorrow."

"Please do, sorry that the timing was so inconvenient."

She shrugs, more carefully this time. "It's not your fault. Anyway, I can stay for a little while; we should go over what exactly we're announcing."

"We announce that whatever secret thing we are doing requires some level of cooperation with us and strong secrecy, but whoever decides to go through will be taken care off and live as comfortably and as protected as we can make them? They are bound to draw some wrong conclusions about this being an experiment or something. I don't know if we should note that what we are going to do is not painful or dangerous."

Nod. "If we're getting Sith here at all it's more important to be well-defended than completely mysterious." She considers. "It makes more sense for you to make the announcement, in that case - it leaves more ambiguity about whether it's true, compared to me saying it; I could have been lying to you - I think our audience mostly won't think of that; the ones who would will leave anyway, and definitely any Sith hearing about it will."

"Perfect then."

"Mmhmm. Okay. Is there anything else you wanted to talk about? The new droids okay?"

"Alright? Not that different from the others so far. Though there was one that I think started avoiding me after the Sith attack was mentioned."

"Yeah, not surprising. I'll have Daisy talk to him and see if there's anything we can do."

They nod. "Do you think that might generalize with the dreamshapers once they can get the full story?"

"That the droids will be nervous of them? Probably some, but it won't be too hard to let them avoid them if they want to."

"Well, that is a concern. But I meant the dreamshaper candidates being nervous of Felix."

"Ah. Probably not? If they know I'm here and they choose to stay, they'll have some tolerance for being around powerful people."

They nod.

"There's nothing wrong with being powerful. And I'm not just saying that because you saved my life."

"I understand that. I don't have a problem with power, I just don't want people to be afraid when it's my responsibility."

Confusion.

Similar confusion. "I... feel responsible for these people?"

"They still have a right to their own feelings."

"Ah, of course. I don't object to people having their own feelings. I just want to... improve the circumstances around them so they can have feelings that they find preferable according to their own values."

"And we're doing that."

"Uh," Trevor says to Dusk, "Skymagery comes with this mental side-effect that gives us a more acute sense of responsibility. It's not the same thing as making us more responsible, but it makes us more aware of things we mentally classify as our responsibility. ...What I'm trying to say is that it's harder for Felix to feel like he is doing enough."

"Ah."

"One thing people need is - space to be what they are? And to do what they need to do, and sometimes what they need to do isn't very nice. It's not surprising they're afraid, being around a Sith, and most things we could do about that would be worse for them than letting them do that."

Nods.