"Tea was my parents," he clarifies absently. The tea ceremony doesn't have religious significance, or not in any of the religions he happens to be familiar with it doesn't. He just grew up in a teahouse.
Which seems a bit less important in light of the suggestion that someone was decidedly misusing the Force. Jedha belonged to more than the Jedi, but they were the most powerful, the most immediate, and it's hard not to see things through their eyes, hard not to think the words dark side and call to mind snatches of what to a child's mind were not much removed from ghost stories. Knowing how little power time seems to have here, it seems entirely possible there was a Sith in residence. Bodhi's not particularly distressed to hear that the man, whatever the story is, is in no position to be a threat.
He tempers that first response the best he can. Maybe there are benign things a Jedi can do to someone's mind? He's... not inclined to be charitable, but it's possible. "You rejoin the Force. If there's some... some great purpose, a, um, a consciousness can stay. After death, I mean, or because of imbalance or..." Well, there's that dark side explanation again. "Well, anyone force sensitive in particular could stay, for a lot of reasons, but, um, what-what you want is to return."
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Which seems a bit less important in light of the suggestion that someone was decidedly misusing the Force. Jedha belonged to more than the Jedi, but they were the most powerful, the most immediate, and it's hard not to see things through their eyes, hard not to think the words dark side and call to mind snatches of what to a child's mind were not much removed from ghost stories. Knowing how little power time seems to have here, it seems entirely possible there was a Sith in residence. Bodhi's not particularly distressed to hear that the man, whatever the story is, is in no position to be a threat.
He tempers that first response the best he can. Maybe there are benign things a Jedi can do to someone's mind? He's... not inclined to be charitable, but it's possible. "You rejoin the Force. If there's some... some great purpose, a, um, a consciousness can stay. After death, I mean, or because of imbalance or..." Well, there's that dark side explanation again. "Well, anyone force sensitive in particular could stay, for a lot of reasons, but, um, what-what you want is to return."