She nods. "It does sound like you have your priorities in order."

"We try. It must look extremely confusing from the outside, but we try."

"Very much. Is there anything else before I go talk to the others?"

They shake their heads.

"I will know if you tell anyone. I suppose it's not a problem if they end up wanting to stay, but I'll still be annoyed if you take the risk."

She nods, "I understand," and goes.

"Could've gone worse."

"Went really well, I think. She's cautious, understandably, but I think she's legitimately on board."

"Hopefully she will at least have remarks on how we will be able to do better next time." Felix glances at the door. "Do we know about other cases like her daughter?"

"A couple. And there are probably a few more we don't know about; her file didn't mention it."

"We should've checked it more thoroughly. We could free the ones that need to be freed. Maybe take them in the next batch and free them immediately if it would be too suspicious otherwise?"

"- I did specifically request families be kept together; the daughter wasn't for sale there or we'd have her."

"Right, sorry."

"I expect we're going to have to steal her - that or offer quite a bit of money for her, twi'lek girls are valuable." She grimaces a bit, saying it. "I'm inclined to go with theft, that way we can get whoever else is with her out at the same time."

They grimace as well. "If we are going to steal her how suspicious it would be if her owner fell down a flight of stairs that left them with electric burns?"

She chuckles. "I'm sure you can arrange for that not to be suspicious. I'm thinking we should hire someone rather than handle it ourselves, but you can go along, that's fine."

"I was going to suggest that the next batch of slaves could be focused on... this kind of slave, but it's probably more suspicious than unruly slaves and their families."

"It'd fit a narrative pretty well, just limit us in who we can get in the future a little. Or do it in stages, so no one person knows both what the order was and where they're going; that's more expensive but we're not running into problems there yet."

"And hopefully some dreamshapers are going to be willing to pitch in, so we are even less likely to run into problems there."

"Yeah. We'll still have to be careful, though - it'll look suspicious if we're suddenly exporting things the survey said shouldn't be possible, especially without the infrastructure for it. If we ramp up slowly enough it'll work fine, but that does mean we can't do anything too outrageous to start with."

Nod. "We - any dreamshaper - could visit a planet, start a section of pocket dimension there and then we can run a business there even if we have to run it remotely."

"Be a while before we can trust anyone that much, though."

"Well, if there is one thing that we have is time to find someone."

"Yup."

"I do wish I'd talked to the dreamshard about terms, earlier. It's going to be a while before I can talk to it again, and I'm not actually sure this'll be enough for it."

"Do you think turning me would make a difference? Even if I'm too likely to create people?"