“I don’t know how you come to possess such information, Senator,” Dooku said severely, looking down his long nose at Nalanda, “but I do resent the fact that you have sent Jedi spies to systems allied to us in order to retrieve it.” Nalanda wanted to respond as such a comment deserved when he better judgement held her back. It’s just what he wants, she told herself. There it was, the challenge thrown openly on the table to show the Separatists she was taking no nonsense from them. The flourish and bedazzlement that had followed Count Dooku’s entrance earlier had entirely dissipated.