Mind trick? Or some related stealth technique, possibly, she's seen Breha do similar things.

Well, nobody they ask has more than a hazy memory of the girl.

Yeah, that tracks.

Okay, options from here. They could try meditating on the echoes of her actions here and try to pick up her trail that way. They could check the docking logs for a couple days in either direction around the time the male darksider's ship landed and see if there are irregularities there (though if she came on a shuttle instead of a private ship, that's not likely to be helpful). They could review more footage to try to track her back to a ship, since she doesn't seem to be spoofing the holocams.

Perhaps Elesse could meditate - she has a better sense of the girl - while Meinwen checks logs and reviews footage?

A sensible division of labor. She will see what she can divine. (And see if that... ghost... comes knocking.)

She seems to be quietly watching Elesse, actually. 

She will try cautiously reaching out a mental connection.

"Don't suppose you want to save me some time and tell me where your apprentice is?"

That gets her a carefully muted sense of amusement. "And what would you do with that information?" (It feels natural, almost easy, to talk to the woman like this.)

She should keep an eye on that, huh. "Spy on her to learn about her plans and figure out how t- if they need to be thwarted."

"Only if?"

"She's a darksider, but she ran away instead of escalating and she didn't try to hurt any civilians. So. She's not ontologically evil." Master Breha says that people are not their past, even if they are formed by it. The future is always in motion, which means you can make different choices in the present.

Despite her gentle smile, there's that same deep sense of grief again. "Is using the dark side of the Force in and of itself an evil act, then?"

"Most people would say yes, and for good reasons. Most of what the dark side is used for is evil."

That gets her a considering hum. "You are right - in more ways than you know, I suspect." 

"The other Sith Lord currently active would tell you that the light side is just as easily turned to evil as the dark; that the only difference between righteous war and craven murder is whether the rich and powerful approve; that the very concept of evil is a fiction to keep others in line. He would conveniently leave out that he has done evil with every tool he's had, dark side or not; that he, himself, is counted among the rich and powerful; that by freedom he means submission to him. It is what he told my apprentice, before I took her from him, and it is much the same as my own Sith Master told me."

"Even still, it would be a mistake to call either of them ontologically evil. Even my Master was a child once, who railed against poverty and corruption, who wanted to make the galaxy a better place; she grew up to be the most evil person I've known - and she chose evil at every opportunity given to her."

"My apprentice is a child still, one much like my Master once was." Exactly is that child, actually, but details are merely details. "I aim only to guide her away from that poisoned legacy, and to oppose the other Sith."

"Aren't there easier ways to do that than using the name and tools of your enemies?"

"Sometimes... We use the tools we have."

"And there's strengths to the dark side ‐ things I can accomplish with it, that I couldn't when I was a Jedi."

"Like what?"

"In general... At the simplest level, the dark side brings power. It hides itself, and it hides other things. It moves suddenly, directly. The light side brings control. It reveals itself, and it reveals other things. It moves slowly, indirectly."

"I am continuing my apprentice's lessons in the dark side because it is easier to teach someone control than power, to intentionally reveal something than intentionally hide, to slow down than to speed up. And... She's already drawn the wrath of a powerful Sith, one skilled at mind games - she needs every tool she can to protect herself."

"For me specifically..."

"As a ghost, cohering like this is more straightforward, so long as I maintain a balance and don't go too far into rage. I turned back to the light before I died, and at first I could only occasionally appear in the dreams of one specific individual - I couldn't really even observe the world from one specific vantage, not without quickly flowing away and back into the wider Force. After that individual died... I turned back to the dark, and while my existence was no less lonely, I could at least explore and think as myself."

"In life, it was much easier to act directly, and to hide myself and my actions - shielding my mind against my Sith Master had been next to impossible as a Jedi, but I learned the skill quickly after I fell. I was better able to immediately influence the world, including by healing myself."

"After I fell from the light to the dark the first time, I couldn't use battle meditation anymore, and I stopped having visions, but... I didn't mourn the loss. I'd emerged into Knighthood directly into a war; for me, the greatest powers of the light side all meant just that."

"Why are you telling me all this?"

She is defintely not serving as a distraction.

"I enjoy teaching, for one."

"But you still haven't answered my first question." Which Elesse had almost forgotten about, with all the philosophy.

"I suppose I haven't."

"What sort of plans would need to be thwarted?"

Okay that makes twice. "If you're not going to, just say so."

"I'm not going to give you information that could seriously endanger her. But... If you were inclined to target our mutual enemies instead - the other Sith - then... Something could be negotiated."

"My goal is to prevent people getting hurt. The... other... Sith seem more likely to do that. So far."