While Merrin has no ability to control the weather explicitly, it's the other woman's ability to call to her power and wield it so effortlessly that feels like something both known and unknown to her. There is much she would like to learn about the abilities she possesses, and the world she's so far away from now.

"Those who would force it do not hear it, feel it, know it — or themselves," she notes in agreement, speaking with a clipped Dathomiri accent.

There is an ease she feels in speaking with her that Merrin herself would also not have possessed only a few short years ago. Her entire clan taken from her in a single devastating day — it had left her both alone and wary of others. Slow to trust. Since leaving Dathomir, her experiences among other species and living things throughout the galaxy had shaped so much of her perceptions swiftly, and it's left her with an openness and curiosity she carries even now.

"Did it frighten you as a child? The first time such power came from within?"