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Ray hadn't stopped talking for the past 3 minutes since they'd left the front archway.
His heart rate was through the roof, pounding against his chest as he anxiously trotted through the Coruscanti Senate building corridors, a solid 50 pounds of explosives heaped on his back by two black leather shoulder straps. His mind was still in full throttle, trying to desensitize the hellish past hour where he'd gone from taking a nap in the motor pool to rigging the second most important Political facility in the Galaxy to explode. He reached to his left pocket, pulling up a small datapad as he took a long, shaky drag from his cigarette, shutting up for the first time in exactly 188 seconds, a short-lived reprieve. Above the datapad appeared a small blue holographic image - the Senate Building. His eyes narrowed, gingerly tapping the hologram with his right index and middle finger, zooming in onto four columns surrounding the main hearing chamber.
"Amazing the kind of crap you can find on the Holonet. Absolutely amazing. Did you know there's exactly 1,434 species of Butterflies on Naboo?"
He swallowed heavily, Brisk jog - it's like 250 meters ahead.
"You do now." His feet began to move once more, breaking into a slight jog as the metal crate shifted along his back. His mouth continued to run, burying the image of a smoldering dropship with a turbolaser hole through the center. The young Sith pilot whose skull was still impaled by a vibropike onto the blown gunship's hull. The Sith Priest's screams as he fell over 700 feet. The cindering Sith corpses along the front plaza, gunned down by a Republic Lance Walker's heavy gatling repeater. The-
"God damn it, I love me some butterflies. They are so pretty. Don't you think? Holy shit, I can't get enough of them."
The Republic duo continued along the Senate corridors, enroute to the central columns within the building's rotunda.
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