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Atton is outside, training.

He has a dozen or so floating targets, like dartboards, zipping around him very quickly and firing stun bolts down at him from tiny holes at the sides. It's very obvious that he cobbled them together from various machines.

He's blindfolded, and he's alternating between throwing knives at them with one hand and shooting them with another, while dodging the stun bolts. Judging by the bright, chirpy green flashes and the heavy blaster scoring and multiple knife marks on and immediately around the bullseye, he's doing quite well.

He may be grinning from ear to ear, because it's reassuring to know that he's not helpless without the Force.

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"I'll see what I can do."

Teja leans on his axe.

"So - what kind of sword would you like?" he asks.

"I'll show you my current one at a later date."

Beat.

"Or. Another idea - I lost my killer-sharp-shredding-blade-poppy-vibrodisk-thing when I was off getting tortured. You could make one of those."

"Tortured?" Teja says. "I know the young healer was worried about you, but -- tortured? I am sorry to hear that."

Pause.

Longer pause.

"If you show me what such a thing is like, I would of course be able to make the blade for that device, even though I know nothing, so far, of a -- vibrodisk, you call it?"

"Sure, I can show you. 'S basically a device that creates sonic vibrations, so when you cut somebody, it makes a really big wound."

"That sounds very useful," Teja says.

He had always been in favour of hitting the enemy as hard as possible. Mercy was never much for him.

"It is!"

"How much damage do they do?" Teja asks.

His interest is purely theoretical, of course -- he cannot go back and equip his people with those.

"Depends on the setting. They're very painful, though, always."

"Can you set them so they will damage enough to kill whatever they hit?" Teja asks.

"It depends where they hit. And people usually have protective armour."

"So do I," Teja nods. "But if you maim enough blood vessels on the arms and legs, you can be certain to kill, nevertheless, unless help is very good, and very fast."

"I am fond of maiming blood vessels." Thoughtfully.

"It is very bloody, but it does kill the enemy," Teja says.

"Blood is good, though."

"As with the blood, the life of the enemy flows out," Teja agrees.

"Also, it's very colourful."

"In my world, it was only ever red," Teja says.

"But a very bright shade of red."

"It depends," Teja says."From what organ it flows, how much of it there is -- it can be very dark red, almost black, at times, and bright red and very liquid, at others."

"Or it can be green."

Teja smiles at that. "Of course it can, I would assume -- but not on my world!"

"Your world is weird."

"For only having one colour of blood?" Teja asks.

"Yep."