Thrawn's return is reasonably swift, and he stops to pour the tea without bothering to offer sugar to Hera, as she never seems to take it. Then he settles across from her, taking his own biscuit and neatly splitting it in half.

"Would you care for some of the soup? And then, of course, I would like to ask about your progress in the lessons that I am not responsible for teaching you."

Basic self-defense, for one. For another, the working of shuttlecraft.