[OOC: No worries! I completely understand <3 Good to see you back in commission!]
"Really recent," Siri agreed with a nod. It was strange to her, the fact that she could remember the last time she had been in their own galaxy so clearly, but how it felt oddly displaced as well, as if it were a different lifetime altogether. Everything she had learned here, about her future... it was so unnerving, so disorienting. Could it really be so recently that she was living her life, unaffected by these different timelines, by the knowledge of what was to come? "The last time I spoke to him was right before..." Suddenly, she cut herself off, eyebrows furrowed as she remembered something she hadn't connected to, and she sprang to her feet needlessly, as if ready to defend them from some unseen force, strolling to the window in Luke's apartment and brushing her hair out of her face.
"Palpatine, he was there," she breathed, mind going a mile a minute. It had been almost unprecedented, that the Senate had sent a convoy to pick up the Jedi team from Nar Shaddaa after they were through; at the time, though, Siri had just assumed it had been because they had overthrown a very heavy slave presence in the Republic. Now, she was suddenly realizing otherwise, and it was rushing toward her like a brick wall. "He was there at the platform when we landed..." It was almost as if Siri was talking to herself, trying to work out the realization, and it was only after a few seconds that she turned around to face Luke again, blue eyes blazing. "The Chancellor came to greet us, I thought... I mean, it was strange, but..." As if physically chilled, Siri crossed her arms over her chest as the Force surged around her. She was suddenly faced with a very real and threatening bit of knowledge, and she couldn't do anything about it. Even if she were to return home, she was positive she wouldn't remember anything she had learned here on Earth.
"He was already watching him. Keeping an eye on him. Preparing to lure him to the dark side," Siri explained her thought process to Luke quietly, as she stiffly moved back to sit again. She had learned all-too-well, from Cade and the others, that Palpatine was very crafty and manipulative as a Sith lord, that he had managed to take over the Republic for his own dictatorship without even Master Yoda sensing it, but she never imagined that he had started planting seeds - when it came to Anakin, at least - so early on. No one had noticed. Not even ten years ahead of time. When Luke thanked her and turned the questions onto her, it took her a few moments to concentrate again, to focus on the present. Her mind was reeling, she had a ton of questions, but... she knew she shouldn't dwell on them. But still... "Yes, I... it's a great deal safer to learn about the past than it is the future," she acknowledged, just the hint of a smile pulling at the corners of her mouth. "I need to know first, that whatever you tell me, whatever I ask, it has to stay in this room. Once this conversation is over, I can't let it affect my focus or commitment, you know what I mean?"