She can guess, and it does make her wonder, privately, if this is also the Empire's doing, but she doesn't know enough about the Empire (yet) to really speculate beyond that. It seems like, even outside Dathomir, many of the galaxy's inhabitants also haven't had easy lives.

As for going into the water... so he'd caught her looking, hadn't he? She doesn't look too put out, though—at least that answers the question she'd been thinking.

"The warning is appreciated. I had wondered." She turns her head to glance at the water and sighs quietly, a little disappointed but not entirely deterred—if she could handle the Sleeper, the massive, ancient beast that lived in the pools underneath the Nightsister's lair, then she's pretty confident she can handle whatever's lurking in this ocean.

"Then I will have to prepare myself," she adds somewhat ominously, her expression almost thoughtful.