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[sith_happened]

Anakin would go around later and chat with Nina's teachers like a proper faux parent-guest-thing later, but for now, his office was open for all visitors!

He even had caf.

He wouldn't be sharing it, but he had it.

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[not_dlique]

"Good morning! I understand you are Professor Skywalker."

An ambiguously gendered person dressed in spotless white clothes, including gloves, had appeared in the doorway.

"I understand you are one of Lieutenant Tisarwat's teachers. I am Presger Translator Zeiat."

She smiled, looking like she was in a good mood, and entered the room.

[sith_happened]

"That's me," Anakin said, glancing up with a smile. "Would you like a seat?"

[not_dlique]

"A seat! Oh, yes, a seat."

The Translator sat down opposite Anakin. "Now, I understand I am supposed to ask how Lieutenant Tisarwat is doing. How is she doing? And what is your class about?"

[sith_happened]

"I teach Ethics," Anakin said, "and the Lieutenant is doing quite well. She is very engaged with each question I bring up."

[not_dlique]

"Ethics? I'm not sure I'm familiar with that word."

The Translator looked interested though.

"I'm glad to hear the Lieutenant is doing well. Sometimes she gets very excited and has ideas." Here she nodded.

[sith_happened]

"Ideas?" Anakin repeated. "Is that unusual in your culture?"

[not_dlique]

"A culture? I'm not sure I have one. What is it?"

Zeiat looked curious.

[sith_happened]

"A culture are rules, laws and traditions that are unique to a group of beings," Anakin said. "I'm from a group called the Jedi, and traditionally, we wear robes like what I'm wearing to let people in our galaxy know who we are."

[not_dlique]

"Oh! So, different kinds of humans? I can sort of grasp that concept. I still don't think I've ever had a culture."

She smiled.

"But Ethics. What are you teaching the Lieutenant?"

[sith_happened]

"I'm not trying to teach her anything," Anakin said. "I'm trying to get her to realize her own limits. She is military, yes?"

[not_dlique]

"Yes, yes, she is," Zeiat replied. "Her limits? Interesting. So the class is about limits?"

[sith_happened]

Anakin nodded. "About finding your own, yes," he said. "A recent example: I pretended to both give the students food and have some of my own to share. I wanted to see which would go along with my charade because they didn't want to disobey authority, and who would tell me the truth of my lie to my face even though others were watching."

[not_dlique]

Zeiat blinked.

"What kind of food?"

[usual_suspects]

Hello, Anakin; you were so lucky - you had two Dark Councillors this year! At once!

Darth Vowrawn led the way, smiling in a way that seemed utterly pleasant and sincere, and Darth Marr...lurked.

"And here he is! The Dean. I still haven't ascertained precisely what his job is here," Darth Vowrawn proclaimed, "but he is teaching Ethics to our Miss Beniko. Jedi Skywalker," he added with a slight bow. "Darth Vowrawn; we met last year. And this is Darth Marr."

Marr lurked a moment more, but he was capable of pleasantries. "Hello." He had a very nice voice.

[sith_happened]

Yaaaaay. Just what Anakin had always dreamed of.

"Hi," Anakin said, sounding deeply thrilled. Two Sith Lords. Ugh. "Miss Beniko is as always," completely confusing, "a bright, capable student."

[usual_suspects]

"Oh, naturally," Darth Vowrawn said.

"And what sort of 'Ethics' might you be teaching a Sith?" Darth Marr asked. Ominously. Or maybe that was just his modulator. It was hard to tell.

[sith_happened]

None you would approve of, Anakin thought, fully aware that they would be heard. "As you well know, Lana makes up her own mind," he said. "I offer up scenarios and the students learn for themselves where their ethical line in the sand is."

[usual_suspects]

"And when she chooses things that aren't to your liking?" Darth Marr asked.

[sith_happened]

"It's her terrible choice to make," Anakin said. "I can only lay out what the potential consequences might be."

[usual_suspects]

"So any choices a Jedi doesn't agree with are terrible?" Marr scoffed.

[sith_happened]

"Broadly speaking, yes," Anakin shot back. "Murder? Bad. Betrayal? Bad. Hatred? Bad. Ridiculously overwrought masks? Bad. Not morally wrong, just ugly."

[usual_suspects]

"An interesting viewpoint coming from an order that had no problem with genocide," Marr rumbled.

If Vowrawn had popcorn, he'd be eating it.