A not so average day

[Croywn Denimore]

-----Tatooine-----
Mos Eisley

It was around mid day on the planet of Tatooine, with the busy life of Mos Eisley in full swing. Ships leaving the local spaceport. Traders littering the streets, the heat being kicked up from not only the sand but over head as well.
Of course with all this busy activity comes the life of crime both petty and minor to full scale back ally crimes.
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Crow was taking part in one of the latter situations, stealing. She had arrived on the planet only several days ago from the planet Lok. She was used to the heat of the planet having lived on one of the nearby barren planets on the Outer Rim all of her life. The lifeless void of these planets seemed to be all she was doomed to experience, the only life being in her eyes that of the local population who all had some sob story to try and squeeze you out of some credits or another.

She had positioned herself against a building that was offering some little shade and covering, over looking that of one of the main trade streets with her eyes set upon a trader whom was selling a selection of fruits including that of Meilboorun, Maja and what appeared to be Blumfruit but she was unsure on the last one, not being much of a fruit expert.

The man manning the stall was a Toong by the appearance of things, given away by its head being disproportionately sized for its body. Crow hated having the steal, in her eyes it was a case of stealing to survive she neither had enough credits to keep herself well fed nor had an interest in taking part in some of the actives some "up and coming" figures would have her do given half the chance. It felt wrong to do this but not wrong enough to not justify it with her own needs.

Her eyes scanned across the road that was before her, it didn't appear as though anyone she saw was likely to give her trouble or chase her, why would anyone care in the end or risk something over a few simple fruits. But something didn't feel fully right about this, it was something she occasionally felt when about to do something that would draw attention to her. A shiver down a spine, a breath against the back of her neck, her foot getting caught on something. All these were usually signs for her to go away and try another area or do something another day. But be damned with her nerves now, she was thirsty and hungry and a good few pieces of fruit would satisfy both those needs.

Slowly she took a step out of the shaded area into the direct heat of the planet to being her approach.

 

[Tristyn]

Rayla was sitting against a wall, covering herself from the blazing heat of a regular Tatooine day, until she noted someone preparing to steal some fruit from a market stall. She could feel how nervous she was and thought she'd watch how the scene played out. She approached them further, but still of of sight.

 

[Croywn Denimore]

She continued to move forwards, stopping at a few stalls along the way to not make a direct approach to the vendor right away.

She still felt the unease as her eyes looked around for a few moments again. Attempting not to draw too much attention to herself while doing so. As her eyes looked around the street she noticed a local moving down the road they seemed to be carrying some boxes and not paying attention to where they were really going

Perfect

She thought to herself as she began to walk down the street, this time with her head bowed as though she was doing nothing but looking at the ground. In truth she was keeping an eye on the local that was approaching in the opposite direction, he was nearly at the stall which she had targeted. Her steps began to pick up pace and her body shifted more towards him. She was intentionally aiming to collide with him directly in front of the vendor with the fruits.

 

[Tristyn]

Rayla smiled as she saw what sort of strategy she was employing. Though she felt an odd and yet familiar feeling about this woman.

 

[Croywn Denimore]

She continued forwards keeping her head low and at within a moment there was a sound of two people colliding.

As she felt she made a gesture to look as though she was trying to throw her hands back to break her fall, when in truth her hand went to hit one of the boxes that had been sent flying and hook it towards the path of hitting the vendors goods.

Rather than putting her hand back to break her fall though, she pulled her forearm in to her upper arm, tucking it close to her head aiming to land on her shoulder and roll backwards towards the market stall, bringing her closer towards the goods.

It was one of there many reasons she kept her hair short, it did not then fall across her eyes should she be running or moving quickly. It also had less of a chance of being grabbed in a fight also.

The appearance of a human male was seen falling to the ground with his boxes, the look of shock and surprise upon his face at first that was evidently soon going to turn into an angry expression

 

[Tristyn]

Rayla laughed at the girls clever antics and as such got up closer to get a better view.

 

[Croywn Denimore]

She landed next to the container of fruit, as she rolled back against it. Looking over seeing the man was still on the ground and pushing up as the merchant was looking over at the product where the box had hit. Seeing the damage it had caused he was over towards the man on the ground expecting compensation for his loss of goods. Even in the dazed state the man's anger for a moment was redirected towards the angry merchant.

This was her chance, it would not take long before the man pointed at her and both the eyes of the merchant and that of the person she had bumped into as well as any on looks would be on her. With haste she went to grab some of the fruit, throwing them into a bag she bore upon her back. She felt it again a shiver down her spine from doing it, or was it something else. Was some one watching her ?.

Her eyes looked around quickly, there was too much attention here, even though she could probably grab a whole create and drag it off with her, the added weight would slow her down too much. She turned her back to the conflict of the merchant and the man in time to hear "Its her fault she bumped into me"

Time to go

She thought to herself and began to make a run for it, she needed to make it to a crowd of people to try and break the line of sight

 

[Tristyn]

Rayla saw as the girl began to run with the goods she stole and decided to follow her, but not as fast in order to attract less attention, so she was kind of speed walking. She could also sense her, and quite well. She could feel that this thief could also sense her presence. She knew it. This girl is Force Sensitive.

 

[Croywn Denimore]

Could hear the shouting behind her, as she continued to run.

She managed to make her way towards a crowd of people approaching the other way and began to dash through them, weaving in and out of the people there. The line of sight was broken.

With that she made a quick dash into an ally way, pulling herself down behind some boxes that were stored there. Still even though she knew she had gotten away with it, she still felt an unease about it. Something was wrong, but she hadn't been caught, no one had saw her had they ?

She didn't like it when she felt this way, usually it meant that she had to hide or pull back, it was causing her toes to curl in her boots. As she sunk as far down as she could behind the boxes to stay in the shadows and stay as hidden as possible.

Even now with her sat perfectly still with the little burst of energy from the run, she was on edge. Which was evident when she began to chew on her lower lip, a bad habit she had picked up.

 

[Tristyn]

She followed the girl to an alleyway she tried to hide in, she turned into it to find her lying behind a couple of crates there. She smirked and crossed her arms. "That was a sweet trick you pulled back there"

 

[Croywn Denimore]

looks up to see the person stood over her

she saw me ? no she can't of ? what now crow you have yourself in a corner

Slowly she began to push herself up to her feet looking over at the woman as she tilted her head some, before frowning a bit

"I don't know what you mean ? I was taking a rest from the sun till you came along"

She had no intention of letting the woman get her to admit to something just in case she was not what she appeared to be. Either way now she was near her she felt the strange tingle down the back of her neck more so than before. Was it because this person had been watching her, her eyes looked around for a moment as she stood there. The Togruta could not have been that old, but was around her own age perhaps. Her deep blue eyes locked on to the woman's own yellow eyes. Her toes continuing to curl and release in her boots

 

[Tristyn]

"Don't lie to me. I saw you", thinking about her Force sensitivity she continued, "You have some quick reflexes and I know why. You are strong with the Force. I can sense it"

 

[Croywn Denimore]

damn it she saw me

A frown appeared across her face as she takes in a deep breath looking at you before looking away down the ally, the look of annoyance at having been seen and followed coming across her face, hearing the compliment of quick reflexes as she raised a brow for a moment. Before frowning harder as you spoke about the force

"Everybody lies, they lie to get what they want, they lie out of shame, out of fear, out of their own misguided sense of protecting someone. In the end sooner or later someone will lie. And obviously I wasn't quick enough if I was caught or seen. So what are you after to keep quite ? I take it that your wanting to blackmail me for something or another. The answer is that unless you want one of these piece of fruit there isn't much I can give you.......as for the force.....never heard of it."

She began to try and move herself around the woman to see if she would be able to slip past and possibly get away

 

[Tristyn]

'First of all: I have no interest of blackmailing you, I just wanted to see how you handle yourself when it comes to stealing things. You remind me of myself. Second of all: The Force, it's quite complicated. Have your parents not taught you about the Force?", Rayla inquired while blocking her attempted escape.

 

[Croywn Denimore]

Froze dead in her tracks hearing the question about her parents, regardless of her blocking her path as she stood there. Looking straight a head. Slowly taking in a deep breath

"My parents are dead"

She said coldly, she said those words in a way that was void of anything. Not angry, not sad, not happy. Just a completely blank as though it was more a reaction from a computer terminal. As she slowly takes in a deep breath. Turning her head to look at you

"I steal to survive and to get by, nothing more. I don't have much choice in the matter, and as for the Force part of it. Next time I get a chance I will read up on it or something, maybe. But if its anything like a religion I am not interested, I don't need someone telling me that its part of a plan that my past happened the way it did or that my future is going to be this way if I believe or pay this amount of credits every cycle"

 

[Tristyn]

"You and I are so alike. I hate my parents and decided I would never see them again. I live on the street and steal to survive. And I twist the Force in my own way, The Jedi basically turned it into a religion and I never liked it", now speaking in a more interested tone she continues," But I can teach you to use your abilities. The Force. To bend it towards your own desires"

 

[Richie B.]

Triton was not in a good mood with his arm gone he wasn't as strong as he was before, walking around on Tatooine knowing that it was a safe place to hide seemed like a good idea until he felt the force call him, annoyed the man knew he could do nothing as he was a tool for the force. Walking towards were he felt the disturbance the man grabbed several packs of food without anyone knowing with pure speed being at knight level had its perks the force was powerful within him and the two would sense his presence as he got closer to them. Hearing them thanks to his empowered senses the warrior was dressed in white robes the sleeve where his right arm would be empty, and he carried a black staff which was in fact a Wan-Shen in his left hand.

Triton would hover over the two having hear much of there conversation already, having taught others before the man felt like he needed to help the two with there abilities. Looking at the two the man had black hair an stood at 6 ft though the man looked like a stone statue with muscles that still were noticeable through the white robes, the man was a warrior of the force a tool of the light side but he was no Jedi.

No he was a Matukai a order though similar to the Jedi in the core they were very different.

"So I hear you two are all alone? As a person who has no parents I can understand living alone, if you two want to know how to be strong an how to change this dark depression galaxy to a more happier and safe place I can teach you both?" Triton offered a man of strength and knew if push comes to shove the two were no threat to him.

 

[Tristyn]

Rayla turned her head around to note the man standing behind her. When he said his bit she eyed him skeptically,"Speaking of the devil. Who the hell are you? A Jedi? Before you say anymore I am not joining the Order", she turned back to speak to the woman in front of her,"...and nor is she. Don't join the Jedi, they do nothing but study religion and never actually do anything. But I can show you something practical", she said that last bit with a smirk.

 

[Croywn Denimore]

Listened to what the woman had to say looking at her as she chewed on her tongue a bit. Listening to how she hated her parents and made the choice to not see them again. Crow on the other had did not have such a luxury as a choice in seeing them again or not. Slowly she closed her eyes as she reached into her pack to go and take one of the fruits out. She was still thirsty and hungry. The adrenaline starting to fade off was causing her to become more aware of her own hunger and thirst. It was at this point that she heard the voice of a man nearby.

Turning her body fully to see where the voice came from her blue eyes looked over the figure, taking in the robes that the man wore and the staff was being carried in the left hand. The Ally was getting crowded to a degree or so it felt like. Usually she would often go several days before speaking to one person let along two.

Both of these mysterious figures were offering some kind of training by the sounds of it for something she didn't understand nor had any knowledge of. What was it that they were talking about.
A frown appeared across her brow at this thought, before she blinked hearing the woman speak for her saying that she was not joining any order. As she looked back at her when she said not to join the Jedi.

"Look around us........do you think the mysterious Jedi of old children stories that were told to me as a child would waste their time coming to a place like this ? what is it that you are trying to train me in anyway I don't understand, I am just a person trying to get by and survive without drawing much attention to myself. All I care about is........."

She fell silent, having nearly said too much on a certain subject about complete strangers. As she slowly takes in a deep breath and chews on her tongue a bit more

"The galaxy is a depressing place but its always going to be, that is why you have those addicted to spice, addicted to gambling or some other pass time. Just to take their mind off the reality that this galaxy is cruel and harsh and no matter how much you try and change something it has a way of coming back at you and sucker punching you "

 

[Richie B.]

Triton was a bit taken by surprise, the Torguta had a lot of pent up anger and frustrations, something the warrior could relate to but showing such disrespect to a order that has done so much good is just childish. Though Triton wouldn't mind being a Jedi he was not one nor did that bother him, his order were not worried as much about the mystery as the Jedi, which seemed to be what is keeping away the young Torguta.

The warrior was about to scorn the foolish girl when the other one spoke in a less disrespectful tone to the Jedi which the warrior was grateful for. The Jedi were his heroes when he was training to be a Matukai the fact that they are willing to die for others to fight the darkness showed their true nature. Seeing now that he has one that is too feed up with the system and another that has given up on the Galaxy, Triton knew he had to set these two straight.

"I am no Jedi, though if I was I would be teaching you a lesson young Torguta your disrespect is just childish an shows that you have much to learn." Triton would than look at the young woman as she began to get the food that she had, grabbing one of the fruit he had stolen with his left hand an holding the staff with the back of his elbow.

"Young child you should not give up on the Jedi they fight a hard war for both of you to stop the Sith from destroying all good that is left in this galaxy, though it might be hard for one that has only seen the cruel parts of the Galaxy but it is not the reality of it. There are many places were people focus on helping each other, in finding peace within themselves by meditation an not by spice. As for only wishing to survive I don't believe that, everyone wishes for something more than just surviving. Like me it is to end the darkness that haunts this galaxy, with the gifts my training has given me I have become a weapon of the light forged to destroy the darkness. You have the same gifts as me and her, most call it the force it's a energy in all life, it allows those strong in the force to do miracles like this." Triton took a bite of the fruit an left it there moving so his staff was no longer being supported by his arm the warrior's muscle were ready to strike and when it did the two young woman wouldn't be able to see what happened.

Tritons arm moved so quickly thanks to force speed that only those with special training or very good eye sight even than it would look like a blur at best. The hand rapped around the fruit the young girl stole an took it the girl might see it happen but would be powerless to stop it. Pulling back just as quickly the warrior would be able to rap his arm around the staff before it fell to the ground as a testament to how fast the Matukai training can make someone. Holding the fruit just a few fingers an grabbing the fruit that was in his mouth the warrior was free to speak again.

"I belong to the Matukai order we focus solely on the physical aspects of the force no other order can match us in hand to hand combat, if you wish to be something more than this, we can help you make a difference in the Galaxy to end the addiction of spice an other cruel realities that we can change." Triton finished hoping that he had convince the young girl to join him and his order.

@Boertjie