Night Watch

[Nara Cross]

Nar Shaddaa
1:37 Hours
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Tonight was like any other night on Nar Shaddaa, bright lights, night life, criminal activity. Nara Had seen it all too often. Several months ago, Nara left the service of a now dead hutt named Esteleh, murdered by a Sith's bounty hunters. On top of that, Nara still needed to search for her parents, but that would require her to go off world. Seeing as she lacked a ship, the best she could hope to do was stay on Nar Shaddaa and try to find a source of income.

Nara kneeled on top of a large building overlooking a busy market place. All kinds of hot commodities were being sold there: Food, armor, weapons, illegal tech. Though Nara didn't exactly love outlaw tech, but It usually wouldn't bother her enough to get her attention. Tonight however, Nara had heard whispers about a yellow-skinned Rodian merchant, went by the name of "Tiwk". He was said to be selling lightsaber parts, and this interested Nara. This man would know the people he sold to, potentially, sith he sold to.

"Alright Twik, show yourself." Nara would grumble to herself as she watched the streets below. Nara would begin stretching, as if she would be ready to jump from the rooftop at any moment if the man revealed himself.

 

[Eisa Nimbus]

Seemed like every time the young fiery haired teenager arrived on Nar Shaddaa something was different, new or more precisely the layout seemed to have completely changed! Then again perhaps it was the fact for the first time in countless years she was walking the streets of the criminal under hive sober. Still it didn't seem to really deter the teen from her aimless wondering through the market place, her bright emerald hued eyes panning over the various wares being offered for sale. Most of them were general items, food, some suspect looking clothing, armor that looked like it had seen better days. Narrowing her eyes, as she regarded the armor set closest to her, it seemed like it was fresh, the blood stains had hardly began to dry.

Still it was places like these that the young teen knew were the proverbial god send, as not only would there be the typical assortment of generic hot goods, looking to be fenced. There was sometimes the occasional oddity that would catch your eye, long enough to realise that you couldn't ever fathom a use for it. Unfortunately for the time being it would appear to be so far the case that nothing was screaming out to seize the teens attention.

With a sigh the teen moved away from the island of makeshift market stalls and proceeded to pass into an arcade, her wide emerald hued eyes gazing around in awe at the various trinkets and oddities that was on display. So distracted that she was she had absent mindedly walked into a rather flustered looking yellow rodian. "adtahia fa uba stoopa veatiuena" the rodian cursed out in Huttesse, forcing the young teen to turn her attention towards the person she had bumped into. "Sorry What?" the teen mumbled as she cast a brief cursory glance over her shoulder before continuing to window shop.

Through the corner of her eye she watched as the Rodian flipped her off and disappeared out onto the street. Leaving the teen to just simply shrug, check her pockets just in case as well as her holstered blaster pistols, before returning her attention to the assortment of various unique looking instruments being displayed infront of a Pawn shop.

 

[Nara Cross]

Nara would watch the crowded streets move, scanning the area for any yellow-skinned Rodians. The problem was, there were plenty of Yellow-skinned Rodians in the galaxy, not all of them sold illegal saber parts under the table. On a world such as Nar Shaddaa, this would pose an even bigger challenge, as Rodians were one of the most common species in this area of the galaxy. After pondering these very thoughts, Nara would hear a loud-mothed Rodian shouting curses at a teenage girl in the streets. He was indeed a light-skinned Rodian, the description matched for sure, but would someone who sold saber parts really be drawing this much attention to themselves? Nara decided to interrogate the man, see what he knew.

"This Sith Slayers comes for you Twik," Nara would say to herself as she pressed her mask against her face, and equipped the rest of her crimson armor. Nara then watched the man move in the crowd for a moment, until he began walking past one of the darker alleys in the area. When she saw this opening, Nara would draw her grappling hook and fire it. The grapple would shoot across the skyline, onto a building overlooking the dark alley, and Nara would silently swing across, as to not arousing suspicion from a single market goer. Following this, she would drop to the ground right inside the alley and wait for the rodian to approach. When he finally did, Nara would quickly leap from the shadows grabbing him, with one hand over his mouth and another around his body. She would pull him into the shadows, and press him against the wall of a building demanding "Tell me who's the Rodian selling the lightsaber parts. I'm not looking to hurt him, I'm just trying to find out who he's selling to."

 

[Eisa Nimbus]

Stepping out of musical curios shop, the young fiery haired teen had a light spring to her step as she made her way back out through the arcade. Stopping momentarily to peek once more into the large bag she was carrying, a wild grin crossing her features as her emerald hued eyes lingered over the reed based instrument with several pipes attached to a black leather bag. Sitting on the shorter pipe covered with a series of holes as an ornate brass figure head stylised like a Kraytt Dragon's Skill, a light excitable chuckle escaped the teens lips as she closed the bag back up and looked around, wondering where to go to next.

Taking a deep breath through her nostrils her olfactory senses were overloaded with the unique and unmistakable scent of fried sweet dough and sugar! There was barely a seconds thought as the fiery haired teen decided to follow the scent right up to the food cart selling the pastries. Slapping down a few credit chips onto the counter, the teen exciably looked over the menu. "Can I have a chocolate one and a sugar one please" she asked, before exciably waiting for the vendor to wrap up her food and hand it over. The wide grin on the teens face broaded as she thanked the vendor and made her way back along through the winding market place, happily taking bites out of the chocolate coated pastry.

The only thing that could make the day better was a trip to the near by sports bar, to catch the latest swoop race as well as to place a sneaky little bet on the results of the race. Going on auto pilot the young fiery haired teen made her way through the market before veering off into an alley way that would cut through to the adjacent street where the sports bar was located. Casually and without any real care beyond enjoying her sugary treats. It was only by the scuffled movement of a shadowy figure that Eisa had clocked someone up ahead, but all she would really do was shrug. If there was someone up ahead that intended to mug her they would flee in terror as soon as the teen drew upon her connection to the Force.

As she approached the two figures her eyes fell upon a blue skinned woman and the yellow Rodian who had barged into her. "Did he try to pick your pocket too?" the teen spoke out with a mouthful of pastry. As she came to a stop behind them, the older woman seemed to be in control of things so it didn't seem like there was much need to intervene. So the teen just hung back for a moment and continued to finish off the remains of her pastry.

 

[Nara Cross]

Nara was forcefully strangling the Rodian as Eisa approached. Nara could feel the man about to squeal any moment now, when suddenly her concentration would be broken causing her to loosen her grip on the worm. Eisa's question caused her to freeze, and as she did the Rodian would kick her in the stomach. Nara would fall to the ground, as the yellow menace would dart around the corner of the alley way back into the streets. Coughing, Nara slowly stood up, cleared her throat, and reply to the flame haired teen "Lets just say, he's not exactly the most lawful guy."

Though she was a very capable individual, Nara figured she had probably lost the Rodian in the crowd for the time being. For all she knew, the scum bag could be half a mile away by now. Thanks to the teenage witness however, Nara had a back up plan. "Say, did you manage to get a decent look at him? I can't track him If I can't remember his face... And speaking of which, he tried to pick pocket you? did he say anything useful?"

 

[Eisa Nimbus]

Watching as the Rodian got away the young teen frowned a little, as she watched the man get away. Pursing her lips in thought as the blue women pushed herself back up to her feet and commented that the man who escaped wasn't exactly the most lawful of sorts. The teen cast a wild grin to the woman as she tore off and offered her some of the sugar coated pastry. "Most here aren't" she commneted before taking a bite into her pastry before listening to the red eyed woman continue to speak.

"Not really" the teen mumbled with a light shrug, truth be told she wasn't really paying attention at the time. "Don't think he got anything, got my blasters and credits thats all I had with me today, but usually when someone bumps into you here they are trying to pick your pocket" Eisa added before pursing her lips in thought as she tried to recall what the Rodian had said. "All he said was watch it you stupid bitch, then he flipped me off" she added with a broad grin.

A brief contemplative look crossed over her features, before she turned her gaze towards back towards her snack. Taking another quick bite the teen looked over the woman standing in front of her, bright emerald eyes scanning intently over the various armaments and items of tech that was holstered over her body. "You a bounty hunter? What did the guy your after do?" the teen inquired as she tilted her head to the side slightly. "Was it something really bad?"

 

[Nara Cross]

As Eisa offered Nara the pastry, she would push her hand away to decline. "Maybe another time, I need to focus right now..." Nara would listen closely as the young girl would explain the situation, and what had happened with the rodian. Truth be told, it seems like what had happened wasn't too much out of the ordinary, especially not for Nar Shaddaa. On the other hand however, he was a yellow rodian, and this was the very market place she had been tipped off to. The situation seemed to add up, but he could very well be just some random guy.

Nara's eye looked upward as if trying to come up with an excuse for being in a dark red suit of armor, and covered in combat gear. Fortunately for her, Eisa had already came up with an excuse for her. "Yeah... That's right. I'm a bounty hunter of sorts." when the teen asked what the man had done, Nara decided to tell only half the truth "I have reason to believe he's wanted for sale of illegal military technology..." Nara would look around the corner of the alley, she really couldn't remember what the man looked like aside from the yellow skin. Only having been out and about the city world for a few months, Nara didn't know the streets too well, but perhaps her friend here did. "Allow me to introduce myself, I'm Nara." Nara would extend her hand as she introduced her-self, and would then explain "I'll tell you the truth, I don't know this planet very well. If you were an illegal arms dealer around these parts, where would you go to lie low?"

 

[Eisa Nimbus]

Nodding as she listened to the red armored bounty hunter explain her situation, the young fiery haired teen polished off the last of her pastry that the stranger had earlier declined. Despite having a full mouth and chewing, the teen pursed her lips in thought as the woman explained that her quarry was involved in the sale of illegal military technology. What ever this woman was invovled in the talk of military tech had drawn the teen's attention, after all military tech tended to be much more fun than the comercially available versions.

Taking the offered hand as the blue woman introduced herself. "Eisa" the teen returned the offer, giving the offered a hand a quick shake, before releasing her hold. Once again her lips pursed in thought as Nara questioned her for the teen's local knowledge. "I'm not really from here either, Just on a shopping trip" the teen offered as she guestured her head down towards her bag "Nar Shaddaa has lots of unique stuff you can't find in the core worlds" she continued as she opened the bag to give a quick flash of her recently purchased instrument. "Markets and arcades for oddities and fenced goods" Eisa elaborated, before pausing slightly for a moments thought "Little Telos for the more shady stuff" she concluded before taking a step back on herself

"Its not too far from here, can show you where it is if you want?" the teen offered as she motioned for the bounty hunter to follow her as she started to walk back on herself. Figuring that the blue skinned woman would follow, Eisa turned her gaze over to her side. "Out of Curiosity, Where are you from?" The teen enquired as she lead the way to Little Telos, "I've never met any one of your species before" she added to provide a bit more clarity.