"Got it in one." Lily might not be from the Republic, but it looked like she understood. No convincing required. That was... a much bigger relief than he'd anticipated. It probably showed.
"Anybody calling themselves a Jedi comes down here? Don't trust them. Beings in brown and tan robes, mostly, armed with lightsabers. They pretend to be all about peace and justice, but it's a lie. They're deadly, and they can get into your head and start changing things if they really want to." Best to make sure people here knew, even if he wasn't sure how much of his knowledge of Jedi was their own propaganda about themselves.
It still felt unreal, being able to talk about the whole thing, like something he still shouldn't be doing if he wanted to keep safe. But if they showed up here? Nobody would believe him over them, if they got the first word on the subject. They were all serene mystical authority, and he was just a sergeant.
Just a sergeant, stuck on a planet that was getting weirder by the second. "In the lake?" He'd heard that right? In the lake.
"Guess you're lucky to have that magic, then." And he was staying away from any and all lakes until he got properly armed. The kid looked like it'd put her through a lot, magic or no. "Do you remember where you encountered this thing?" He needed to start drawing up maps or something, pull together the basic intel about what in the hells was going on here.
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"Anybody calling themselves a Jedi comes down here? Don't trust them. Beings in brown and tan robes, mostly, armed with lightsabers. They pretend to be all about peace and justice, but it's a lie. They're deadly, and they can get into your head and start changing things if they really want to." Best to make sure people here knew, even if he wasn't sure how much of his knowledge of Jedi was their own propaganda about themselves.
It still felt unreal, being able to talk about the whole thing, like something he still shouldn't be doing if he wanted to keep safe. But if they showed up here? Nobody would believe him over them, if they got the first word on the subject. They were all serene mystical authority, and he was just a sergeant.
Just a sergeant, stuck on a planet that was getting weirder by the second. "In the lake?" He'd heard that right? In the lake.
"Guess you're lucky to have that magic, then." And he was staying away from any and all lakes until he got properly armed. The kid looked like it'd put her through a lot, magic or no. "Do you remember where you encountered this thing?" He needed to start drawing up maps or something, pull together the basic intel about what in the hells was going on here.