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[Again, there's a pause as she considers Yoda's response. It's about what she expected, given his earlier response to the similar question, but at least he's consistent. Had his answer been any different, he would have been shut down immediately.

Using the Force is one thing, being a Jedi is another, and she has no interest in the latter. That's Luke's thing, and her path to repairing the galaxy was elsewhere. But here, here there was a need to know how to defend herself without relying on blasters.]

I accept.

[But all she really knows about the Force mostly comes from Luke and Vader back home, and what she's seen here. Which isn't much of a variety, all things considered, so--]

What can the Force do? Aside from how Luke uses it, that is.

[backpackjedi]

Good. Do my best I will, to see that you are properly educated.

[He pauses, as Leia was basically jumping right into the deep end with her question. There was a lot to the Force, and not even Yoda had experienced it all.]

Connects all life together, the Force does. In hands properly trained, virtually no limit there is in what the Force can do, limited only by the will of the wielder. Through the Force, you may sense the intentions of those who would keep them guarded, or calm sentient beings with your own inner calm. See critical moments you may, times in which direct action is necessary to tip the scale of a conflict in your favor, though great focus is required for this particular gift.

[He pauses again.]

Many are the mysteries of the Force, and not even I, in my 900 years, have seen them all. Teach you how to apply the Force to your natural abilities I can. Beyond that, we may discover potential you have for further gifts together.

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[Well that's just a great and detailed description!! Sure, it describes the possibilities of using the Force, but possibilities aren't specifics, and Leia wanted specific examples to get a better picture of what she's dealing with here.]

Perhaps my question was too vague.

[She's not a Jedi, she won't be a Jedi, but she can probably use the Jedi as an example for the sort of things she wants to know here.]

In the Jedi Order, how did people generally use the Force, outside of just in battle?

[backpackjedi]

[Yoda can't help but be vague. Training in the Force wasn't like learning how to pilot a ship, after all. It was more about feeling the Force and letting it guide you than a specific skillset that you could learn out of a book.]

Direct and to the point, your question was, but unlike any other skill, is using the Force. Teach you I can, but first you must let go of rigid ideas of what the Force is and is not.

[There's tones of reprimand in Yoda's voice. While he was leaving the Jedi way out of it, the Force wasn't a blaster, to be fired and set aside.]

Perhaps in person, this lesson is better conducted.

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Perhaps so.

[Because at least in person, it's easier to get a demonstration of other things the Force can do. Beyond jumping and moving things and all that, that is.]

But if it's the same to you, I'd like to wait a bit before that.

[Since she's still shaken up about That Whole Anakin Thing, and she knows he focus is elsewhere. With how difficult meditation was with Obi-Wan when things were more normal here, she has a feeling that trying to do anything with the Force while she's like this just won't end well.]