She spends a while making very thorough notes on what she thinks that means, then brings her data pad notes and recorded Code to Elesse.

"Have you seen this before?" she asks.

"Seen what?" She takes the datapad and looks it over. "Ah. This. Yes, I have. I was wondering if you would find it."

"It's interesting. An earlier version, right?"

"Yes. One of the oldest recorded, in fact."

"Why'd it get changed?"

"As the Jedi Order grew, it was decided that a more... concrete approach would better serve initiates during their initial training. Those inclined to seek subtlety could find it in their own time, without compromising the education of their peers."

"Wouldn't that make for a bunch of people who don't understand subtlety, if you never taught it to them?"

"Possibly. But there are other ways in which to cultivate that approach."

"I guess, yeah."

"What do you think about the older Code?"

"I think it is a more accurate description of how to put the ideal of the Jedi into practice."

"It makes more sense to me. You can have both of the things, and sometimes one can come from the other, even if they look contradictory. And everyone has all of the earlier things, so - you're not trying to get rid of them, you're trying to work with them? You can't stop having emotions, and you can't know everything, and passion and chaos and death are all life."

"Just so. The galaxy is complex, and so is any true path through it."

"If I was making a Code I'd make the first thing 'don't believe what you read' and the second ' don't do anything this Code tells you to.' Both being written and part of the Code, of course."

"Seems like it'd be difficult to pitch."

"I'd have a very large following of absolutely no one, as intended."

"Why make a Code at all, then?"

"To give people something to think about. So they can make their own conclusions."

"Ah, I see."

"Deciding your own thing's important. For me at least. I guess someone else's conclusion could be they'd rather follow others."

"As long as it's their choice to begin with, hm?"

"Yeah!"

"Seems fair to me."

She hums, happily, and then turns the conversation to everything else she's been studying. She has questions about this one history book...

Elesse has answers. Or at least, more context and recommended further reading.

Time passes. Life at the Temple proceeds in much the same way as it always does. Anakin begins learning some practical applications of the Force in addition to her meditative studies. How to jump farther, run faster, hold her breath for an hour at a time, push and pull objects around with her mind.

After she's met with some success with this, Elesse has an announcement. They're going on a field trip.

She'd already known some of that, but roughly, having taught herself how to move objects mentally, how to endure temperature extremes - but she'd had a few bad habits, a few dead ends she accidentally backed herself into. She takes to the new applications - and new methods of older tricks - like a fish meant for the ocean discovering there's something more out there than the little lake she was born in.

And a field trip sounds exciting. Where are they going?