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Post by Von Verros on Jun 27, 2014 15:26:23 GMT -8
Von walked down the lonely hallways of the residential area, the training with Johun was rather boring and it didn't really help him with anything he didn't already know. As made his way towards his room, he passed Jade's. Thinking back on that morning prior to his training and smiled to himself. Though when he passed another members room (Five) he paused just past the door. Looking over his shoulder he peered at the door, something....something didn't seem right. This presence shouldn't be coming from this room, turning around he walked towards the door. When his face was mere inches from the doors surface he raised his left hand up to the door and pressed it firmly agains't the surface. Stepping back one step he knocked on the door and waited to see who or what greeted him.
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Post by Atia on Jun 27, 2014 16:02:14 GMT -8
Suddenly, knock on the door. Five blinked surprised. Days went by without anyone looking her up, and now suddenly two at the same time. She excused Nala and went to the door just as she donned her long sleeved black shirt.
A Yellow twilek opened the door wearing black pants and long sleeved black shirt. She did not realise but she still had dark blue paint smeared on her right cheek. Behind her, one of the more well known twilek jedi knights.
Five took a confused look at Von and asked the obvious question.
-5-
"Hey... need any help?"
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Post by Von Verros on Jun 28, 2014 16:40:03 GMT -8
Von looked up to see the Yellow twilek standing before him, though the presence he felt was not coming from the room but the woman herself. She was beautiful for someone such as herself. Unsure of what to say or how to approach his being there seeing someone else was also in the room as well. Von tried to find something to say as to not seem noisy and prying
Um I am not sure really, unless you can tell me where I might find the hall doors and the best place to find a drink then yes. Otherwise I believe I am lost....or it could be that I have not yet gotten a handle on this happy feelings that my master keeps giving me. Korriban was so much more pleasant ....Von noticed he was starting to ramble on.Um you know what...I think I have taken to much of your time. I just would like to know how I might be able to catch a ride into town.
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Post by Atia on Jun 28, 2014 18:13:59 GMT -8
The dude looked so lost, his words were so scrambled, Five couldnt help herself. Her lekkus started to curl round and round in exitement, she tugged at the scarf around her neck, the one hiding her slaves collar. She stepped out of the door, and took a good look down the right hall, then the left hall, finally resting her gaze on Von. She raised a questioning eyebrow.
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"You are looking for a ride into town... in the womens dorm?"
She seemed calm and cold, a bit too cold maybe. It was because she was laughing her ass off inside, and made an extra effort not to show it. She knew that the dorms were mostly unisex, but looking at this dude, she guessed he didnt know. Also, fun is fun, but he did mention Korriban. She made a mental note.
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Post by Von Verros on Jun 28, 2014 19:14:38 GMT -8
Von was sure that dorms weren't sectioned by sex, seeing as his room was three rooms down from this woman's. Von stepped to the side as to avoid the gaze of the other woman in the room. He made it appeared as if he stumbled do to being startled by the woman's attitude. She felt like Johun, she felt like a Jedi. But this woman before him wasn't one, as soon as he was out of her sight he looked at the twilek before him. A different attitude from before, one that was more straight to the point. Von spoke in a low tone so that only she would hear him.
I am looking for a lot of things these days, an old feeling of home. A "like minded" individual to talk to, and maybe perhaps a dark hearted friend to talk to. Any idea where I might find said person, or will I have to go to the "male" dorms for that.
Von looked up at the Twilek, he admired her leku's for a brief moment before staring into her eyes. His like hers were cold, and lifeless. He had many stories and hardships behind his eyes and no one at this academy would ever understand them. They always said they did, but Von could tell by the way they spoke to him, to the feint fidgeting in their bodies movement.
Von spoke again only this time loud enough so that the other woman could hear him.
I am sorry, I didn't know that the dorms were separated by sex's. Like I said, I am new here and if you wouldn't mind give me a ride into town or at the very least point me in the right direction. It would be very helpful.
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Post by Atia on Jun 29, 2014 3:49:57 GMT -8
Like minded? Dark hearted? What is this dude, some kind of jedi test? They ALREADY know she is a spy. The laughter inside stopped and 5 stopped raising her eyebrow. She needed to get this dude to leave. She couldnt handle him now with Nala here.
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"Down the corridor, take the stairs down and you should get to the lobby and the yard. Call a cab."
She backed down, and closed the door. This was... wierd. The dudes eyes went all the way down her person, instead of her eyes. She noted him down in her mind too. Going to seek him out later. He could be a good asset to have in this enemy territory situation. She turned around towards Nala.
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"Sorry... some dude from down the corridor. Wanting to find the way into town."
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Post by Ael Jade on Jul 3, 2014 14:39:34 GMT -8
Nala stepped inside as Five suddenly decided to open her door wider. Grey eyes took in the paint-splattered-ness of the room and the other Twi'Lek's appearance. Obviously she'd come upon the woman in the middle of a project, but that was not surprising as she was posing as an art teacher within the Academy. Her lekku gave a twitch as she saw the collar, since Five wasn't wearing her scarf, but she masked it with a smile and opened her mouth to reply---
---when another sought admittance. Artificially painted eyebrows arched steeply behind Five's back as she felt over towards the door with Force-enhanced senses. She caught a glimpse of 'like-minded' and 'dark-hearted' quickly followed up with 'male' and some remark upon the dorms in the Academy. A faint smile crossed her lips and she folded her arms in front of her, fingers of her right hand resting just above her bent left elbow, t'chunn draped down her back, t'chinn curled in front of her and dangling below her arms. From the flustered sense outside the door as well as a quickly tamped down sense of panic from Five, Nalatua'lin wondered if the Twi'Lek slave (she winced inwardly at the thought) had just been solicited for favors by one of the students in residence at the Academy. One of the newer residents she thought. That would need to be looked into. For about six seconds she wondered if someone else had guessed at Five's undercover identity, but she discarded that in light of the more simple, straightforward explanation of what had just happened.
"Well," she smiled, "the mag-lev is easy enough to catch, but I suppose a new arrival wouldn't be familiar with the workings of Corellian infrastructure."
She started over. "So, about that drink. Academy mess hall?"
On the off-hand that anyone was suspicious about Five, Nala thought that seeing her out in the company of herself might allay those suspicions. She was not naive. She knew that Five would probably end up costing the Academy in the future. But right now, she had provided information that could be used, and had given no indication of passing along data that compromised the security of the Academy. Also...she liked having another Twi'Lek around---even if she was happy in her choice of necklace.
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Post by Atia on Jul 4, 2014 5:17:18 GMT -8
-Five-
"I was thinking somehthing more... personal."
In the days and weeks that went by without any word on her investigation or actual..... you know... reaction to an unknown spy in their midst, several packadges have come to Five. None of them contained datapads, as before with Nala, just things. Thetra-Atom chewing gum, "Real Tatooine Water" mineral water (with actual Tatooine water), specialised battery for Fives hands and finally, Captain Arkans Rum. A rum called up after the legendary Bloodrage Pirates Captain Arkan. It was one of these bottles that Five pulled from her night stand.
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"I suggest a trade. I trade this bottle of rum and some soda to wash it down with, for your faviorit place to sit and just be yourself on, where we can drink it."
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Post by Ael Jade on Jul 6, 2014 11:16:20 GMT -8
Grey eyes widened momentarily, then narrowed. "Then I would still owe you a drink." She reached up and brushed a fingertip lightly along t'chunn, blinking as she looked over at Five. "Yes?" That had been the agreement after all.
After a moment the Rutian Twi'Lek nodded in acceptance. "If you wish to stay within the Academy, I would put forth the gardens, but if you do not mind a bit of walking there is a nearby waterfall in the woods far enough away from the Academy to be alone and think, but not far enough away that one is likely to end up in danger from predators." Not that it was safe to be stupid there of course, because nowhere is really safe. One could trip in the hem of one's robes and fall down the stairs in the Academy even. But it was nice to just get away from one's living and working space for a time.
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Post by Atia on Jul 6, 2014 11:37:29 GMT -8
-5-
"Dont worry, I will protect you. To the waterfalls!"
She produced a single strap bag and put the soda and liquor in it. Finally, also an empty bottle. Hurried Nala out of the room, gave it a last checkover, and closed the door. Her lekkus twitched with excitement and also some moves of nervousness.
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"Damn, I havent drank since... well, before I lost my hands. Back home we arent really alowed to take drugs. Mostly because it interferes with training. But god damnit... I trust in the teachings of the Light and wisdom of the jedi to take me home when I get wasted."
She smiled a devious smile and started off with Nala.
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Post by Ael Jade on Jul 6, 2014 12:00:14 GMT -8
"That was not what I meant!" Nala retorted with a sniff. She went there many times, and she was not afraid. She should have known the fight-hungry Twi'Lek would have taken it that way.
She didn't need to get anything as her lightsaber was clipped to her belt, along with some emergency supplies in belt-pouches.
"Whoa, drinking is okay, but drugs would not be a good idea---don't mix alcohol and medication. Interesting things tend to happen." She smiled, and turned to head out the door, then she stopped and looked back at Five, or more precisely, she looked at Five's hands. And then, she looked at Five.
Then, she motioned forward and headed down the corridor with Five. "You lost your hands?" she inquired a few minutes later.
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Post by Atia on Jul 6, 2014 12:25:46 GMT -8
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"Alcohol is a drug, just like caff and a lot of other things. Some in my... lets call it order... doesnt really understand the difference."
As the question about her hands came, she nodded. Concieling the fact that she has phrostetic hands would be foolish. It would come out one way or an other. It was better to let everyone know, so they would ask about how it happened, and why, and all that. This way, they might just feel it to be too awkward to ask what kind of special features those hands actually had.
Hiding it in plane sight.
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"The woman I am trying to find here on corellia cut them off. She... she was jelous of my paintings. I was sold into slavery to an art workshop. We made mainstream art, paintings of landscapes and stuff like that. One of my pieces got recognition. My mistress didnt like how her own work got shadowed by mine, and... one bad night she decided that I would never paint again."
She smiled an awkward smile. She could handle that memory a lot better now.
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"You know... life giving lemons and you make lemonade and all that. Prosthetics are not real hands, but at least I can paint again."
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Post by Ael Jade on Jul 9, 2014 17:54:10 GMT -8
"Yes, you can indeed paint again, judging from the glimpse I saw of your room," Nala replied with a smile. She had listened to what Five was saying. And kept her thoughts to herself for now. Not that she wasn't thinking mind you.
It was cool outside, crisp even as they approached the waterfalls. Nala stepped out along a jutting rock ledge near the bottom of the falling water, taking a moment to enjoy the scenery as water rippled in a pool around the peninsula she was standing on.
"So, Five," she turned to look at the other woman with a troubled gaze, "if she cut off your hands, why do you still wear this?" she tapped her neck, just where a collar would have rested if she had ever worn one. The woman's desire for vengeance was completely understandable, even though the Jedi Healer did not wish to actually admit it.
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Post by Atia on Jul 11, 2014 14:19:38 GMT -8
-Five-
"Nice place."
She sat down beside Nala and pulled all three bottles out of the bag, laying the bag aside. She took a good look at the scenery now and then, enjoying the fresh outside while first pouring some rum in the empty bottle, then deciding to pour some more just to make sure there... you know... WAS some rum in there. Finally she filled the rest with the soda and gave it a good shake.
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"Yeah, I should totally paint this place."
Finally, Nala asked a question that mattered. Five could see it on the womans face, didnt have to even give the Lekkus a glance.
-Five-
"She cut my hands off, and sold me to a brothel, just to teach me a lesson. Brothels dont like to show they have ACTUAL slaves, most places only sell the fantasy of it. This collar I got from the woman who saved me, and gave my hands back. She gave me my life and passion back, and for that, I will always be her loyal servant. It is a symbol, like your lightsaber.
The Mistress thought me more about myself and my abilities I would ever have dreamt off. I am proud to be a slave, but more proud to be Hers."
She pulled a good jug from that bottle, and gave the distinctive "AAAAAhhhhh" sound one just need to give to make a beverage sound exquisite. She smiled a cocky smile and reached the bottle to Nala.
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"Abilities like kicking your ass.
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So... why so curious? Been in the magical world of slavery lately? You have been eyeing my neck accessory ever since we met."
She wasnt dumb, she knew that the jedi could best her in an eyebeat with the Force. None the less, if her report gets home, she will be closer to earn a name for sure.
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Post by Ael Jade on Jul 17, 2014 15:31:46 GMT -8
Nala caught a glimpse of a bottle that she thought might be Captain Solo's spiced Rum from the label before Five started mixing it with something else, soda perhaps? She suspected that one of these days she'd find Five out here perched on the edge of the rock ledge with a large sketchpad on her knees drawing the waterfall. Or maybe even an easel and paints.
Long eyelashes veiled stormy grey eyes for a moment before she looked over at the Twi'Lek. She felt sad as the pain of memory flickered through Five's aura. In fact, she shook herself after the woman finished her explanation, and busied herself choosing a comfortable spot on the rock to sit on. She crossed her legs underneath her in lotus fashion before replying, and when she spoke it was slowly as if she was thinking deeply.
"I think I begin to understand," she placed her hands on the rock and leaned back slightly, appearing deceptively at ease, "thank you, Five."
She wondered why the woman had a number instead of a name, but given that she'd just received a personal answer, she let that rest for now. Maybe later would be a good time.
Nala smiled as Five unabashedly appreciated the drink she'd just made, and looked up at her sideways.
"No. Not in a long time... and it wasn't me." She considered how much to say, aware that Five perhaps regarded her as less of a personal threat after their sparring match. She'd use that to her advantage if necessary someday. Her gaze flashed back to the falling water, the mist in front of it catching the sunlight at the right angle to create a tenuous rainbow in midair.
"It was my sister."
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Post by Atia on Jul 18, 2014 15:10:46 GMT -8
-Five-
"Sounds foreboding. Alive? Dead? Still a slave maybe? I could get the girls back home check the files for you."
She urged. She dared not to dream what the Company would do with a Jedi-s sister. THAT surely would.... no no. No such thoughts, not near the jedi. Paintings and drinks and the root square of fifty six iiiiiissss.....
She started the mind protecting rituals of counting in her head. There was nothing as frigid and calming as counting. THat was the basis of the technique thought in the crucible to not get your mind read. Not sure if this works, yet at least. The entire Banshee product line is on a field test as it is.
She reached a hand for the bottle.
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"And stop hogging the ambrosia. Less hoggy, mroe talky."
An other good technique is to get them drunk. Only problem is, if its not force-feeding, you kinda have to drink yourself. Little bit more mingle and then, serious business.
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Post by Ael Jade on Jul 25, 2014 12:46:47 GMT -8
The girls back home? Nala thought. Again, Five had obliquely referenced the fact that even though she appeared to be alone, in fact, she wasn't. Any information broker worth their credit chips had a network of eyes-and-ears. The green Twi'Lek figured that Five wasn't any different as she passed the bottle back over to the other woman and narrowed her eyes in thought.
"Dead."
As far as she was aware. The evidence pointed to death, but her body had not actually been acquired. Deep down Nala was sure her sister no longer lived, but to be alive is to hope. And for a couple seconds, she did hope. Maybe Five could find something. But reality asserted itself quickly, and the stoic Healer faced her companion with a calm face.
"Your thought is appreciated though," she added as an afterthought. Whether Five chose to go looking or not was not something that Nala had power over. And honestly, she wasn't naive enough to be unaware of the undercurrent of danger. Not that she had outright proof of anything, but knowledge is power.
She smiled with minimum effort. "What about you?"
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Post by Atia on Jul 25, 2014 13:05:49 GMT -8
Knowledge is power.
Very much so. She drank some more from the bottle, which was now about halfway done.
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"Me? Third generation slave. First generation was sold in one of the great repression times, native to ryloth. I have some sisters and brothers out there. Scattered."
She drank some more and reached it to the Jedi.
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"I am serious. Write down what you remember, and I can have someone look into it. We have nice databases on stuff like this back home. Dates, places, names, identifiable features, anything you can think off."
She gave it a rhetorical pause. Change of subject. Making this deal with Nalas sister seem less of importance, but it is. Oh yes, it is.
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"So... you jedi find an unidentified agent knocking on your front door. Its true that I did not foresee torture in a dark dungeon, but at least a sterile room with files and questions would have been... you know... professional. Instead, you let said agent run around, paint, drink and mix with the local pop. Admirable, but a bit naive, dont you think? I could be an imperial agent, for all you know."
She wasnt, and was. She did get her training from imperials, that is true. Also, her organisation was more like a Sith Artifact, that was also true. But outright imperial? Who knows? Time will tell.
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Post by Ael Jade on Aug 1, 2014 18:10:12 GMT -8
"Have you ever tried to find them?" Nala asked of Five as she passed over the drink and took a sip. It was good, though some innate sense of caution told Nala to be careful.
"I suppose I could do that sometime," she shrugged, not really wanting to go into that just right now. Somewhere in her mind she was ticking off points about her sister, what she remembered anyway. It was amazing how time would attempt to blur the edges of painful memories. But Five did a great job of reminding Nala just why she was cautious.
In spite of the fact that on some level she found herself enjoying the company of the other Twi'Lek, she could not rationally ignore all of her earlier misgivings. "That was out of my hands. Though if I'd had my way---" she broke off, heartily disapproving of how Five's admittance to the Academy had been handled. "Still, once the eggs have been broken, it's wiser to try making an omelette than to try putting them back into their shells."
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Post by Atia on Aug 1, 2014 18:31:06 GMT -8
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"I did. The graves anyway."
She took a long sip from the bottle, looked back down on it, seeing just one last jug left, and secreficed her braincells and liver for the cause. It was time to mix again...
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"Oh gal, please, whats your way? I mean, I feel insulted. Here I am, fully trained and conditioned spy relieving herself for the so called enemy, or target, or whatever, and bamm... all I get is a one room with bath n kitchen, and free rains to paint you lot."
She pulled the rum again, filled the bottle half, then fileld the rest with the soda just for the sake of taste. She beta-tested it, Alpha tested it, nodded in appreciation and put the bottle in Nalas hands.
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"So, what would Nalatua'lin, Jedi master, or knight, sorry if I am wrong on the grade stuff... so, what would you have done with my little person at the time of my arrival?"
It was clear, her majesty Fiveness was drunk.
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