Jacen knew she didn’t entirely trust him, which was fine. He probably would have been more surprised if she’d trusted him completely out of hand. He’d given the kid a different name, he’d messed with his mind, and yes. He had. He’d do it again if he needed to. It was for the boy’s own good at the end of it. They were talking about what to do with him, about demons, about the exorcism of his mother. None were entirely happy topics, and the child shouldn’t have had to hear it. So Jacen had ensured that he didn’t. Things like permissions didn’t come into it when you had to make those sorts of choices. It might not have been the perfect way to deal with this, but he had always worked with what he had.
“He just has a mother. I could sense that she’s pretty much all he has in his life, which is why I stayed to help him. But I won’t leave him alone while I exorcise her. So that's why I need you to keep him here.” The boy wanted the Jedi to save his mother and Jacen wasn’t about to take that away from him. He’d have that and he’d have his mother back, and maybe the world would be a brighter place for him because of it. As for the rest, asking about the possession. That at least, Jacen could help with “Holy Water. Or you say Christo and they flinch and their eyes go black, but these ones seem not to be hiding what they are so look out for black eyes.” He’d seen quite a few but they’d ignored him or run from him thusfar. He could understand the running from him if he’d been getting any kind of a reputation. But ignoring him. It meant they had something big planned, clearly. And they couldn’t risk his involvement. He’d have to interrogate one later. All the same he followed her gaze along the street and sighed.
“I’ll go now, do you want me to keep the illusion up on him. He’d be calmer, easier to look after. Would that be better?” he asked, see, he could be a team player. And he hadn’t missed her comment about people messing with heads feeling weird. She’d experienced it before then. And didn’t seem too enthused with the idea. He understood that, he really did. But the rest of it. The rest of the issues she had with it, they could work on later. “Can I leave him with you?”