Part 23 - Errand of Mercy
Still despondent, You-Why's predicament a stone about her neck, Shard moodily considers the baby. There's not a whole lot they can do for their friend at the moment, but perhaps they might reunite child and mother. "I have no idea where Child's mother might be," she slowly begins, "but Child might know."
Rhijans is going to hate this; rather, he's going to find it all a load of bantha piles, as he doesn't really hate anything but inefficiency, it seems.
"I strongly doubt I'm skilled enough to find her," she begins, somewhat neutrally, before throwing caution to the wind and just diving. If people judge, so be it. "And I don't have any kind of real relationship with Dawl, other than persuading most of the others on the team not to shoot her." Rhijans not included. "So I'm really stuck for reaching for her through the Force." Here, she turns her gaze on Haarmon and Child. "Which isn't to say that others can't."
Haarmon might; he showed natural ability far beyond hers when first he touched Shard's mind. But she won't decide for him to try; she's a teacher, not a 'master'. And there is another.
"But Child's natural ability far, far outstrips my trained skill." It's not so hard an admission to make as she once thought it would be; facts are facts, and Shard gave up balancing her self-worth on her connection to the Force a long time ago. It just took a while for her ego to fully catch on. "AND there's a distinct connection. Maybe Child can find her."