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Post by Absolon on Nov 4, 2005 16:30:49 GMT -5
As the nurse opened the door, Kaida's stomach twisted. The man was inside, Chevrast Ki'h Morannin the data terminal at the end of his bed said. He looked better, not so pale, though his hair looked like a old paint brush, with it pointing all over the place. She didn't say anything for a while, but the nurse-blast her empathy!- said, "I'll leave you two alone so you can talk." No! Kaida mentally begged. I just wanted to make sure he was fine, can't I go? But she was already leaving, that too-bright smile shining encouragingly. Blast. "Um." She couldn't bring herself to say anything else.
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Post by Dûncariel is Dead. on Nov 4, 2005 18:56:18 GMT -5
Chev didn't usually take the lead in conversations, generally not even with people who barely came up to his hip, and it took him a moment before he could come up with words that didn't sound... wrong. That nurse lady had no idea what she was leading this little girl into. So he cleared his throat, that sounded pretty stupid. Oh well, here we go. "Thank you for helping those men pull me out of there." He hesitated. "I know you did."
His mind began to wander, and he could think of absolutely nothing else to say. Wait... where did those people put my pants?
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Post by Absolon on Nov 4, 2005 19:42:24 GMT -5
That was surprising, so Mr. Chevrast was able to use the Force to. So she said so aloud, since he seemed to be infected with the same inarticulateness as she. "You can use It to." Kaida interlaced her fingers. "Are you some kind of Jedi?" He didn't seem like the Sith-type. Not that she had met any Sith.
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Post by Dûncariel is Dead. on Nov 5, 2005 12:00:09 GMT -5
He had to smile. "Something like that, yes. But not a very good one, apparently." But that really isn't my fault. Or most of it isn't. It was out of my control from the beginning. Levana...
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Post by Absolon on Nov 8, 2005 13:47:49 GMT -5
He sounded a bit sad, saying that. "Well, I guess I should go, I mean, I'm not really your daughter, and I wanted to make sure you were really ok now."
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Post by Dûncariel is Dead. on Nov 8, 2005 20:49:52 GMT -5
He nodded distantly, not exactly sure of a reply for that. I should be out of here soon. But I'll be stuck on Corellia until I can find a ship. Only problem is, I'm pretty much broke. That ship was all I had, except Levanna. And she's on Maanan...
"That's all right. Thank you, again. I don't suppose I could say that enough." Mostly because that's an awful way to die. I'd much rather be skewered.
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Post by Skye Muad'Dib on Nov 9, 2005 10:22:58 GMT -5
Kaden felt eyes on him, but the one that he felt the most where of that kid with the golden eyes. He had to be at least 7 years younger than Kaden, the still coherent part of his mind reasoned, but he gave him the creeps. "Wha you lookin at?" Kaden wrinkled his nose in disgust, though not at the other guy, at himself. He knew that all he was doing by getting drunk was killing brain cells, deadening pain that would be there tomorrow when he got up, pain that he hadn't even acknowledged for a while after- he became a free man again.
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Post by Absolon on Nov 10, 2005 13:36:03 GMT -5
An idea struck her, this guy's money might all have been burned up! "Well, um, here." Kaida dug into her bag and pulled out a chip, putting on his side table. "Those are some credits." Lot's of credits, more like it, but she had more, and she wasn't the one stuck in the hospital. She turned to go, keying the door pad.
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Post by Dûncariel is Dead. on Nov 16, 2005 11:09:43 GMT -5
He closed his eyes and searched through his still-muddled thoughts for some sort of word, but it took a long time for anything to come. Outside of his eyes, everything seemed clear... inside was a completely different story. First off, he had to find his pants. And he didn't care if they had a hole in them, as he was sure they had to. He really liked those pants. And his lightsaber. Idiot... why didn't you think of that before?
That was pretty much a bad thing. Since Chevrast Ki'h Morannin happened to be something of the paranoid sort in normal situations, stuff like this happened to send him into hyper-drive mode, or something of the sort. "Hey, wait!"
He waited for the little girl to turn around, then continued. "You don't happen to know where they put my clothes, do you? Or if there was a... sort of a hilt with them?"
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Post by Absolon on Nov 16, 2005 16:01:48 GMT -5
Kaida was puzzled. "A hilt? Like a dagger hilt?" What on Kessel would someone want with just a hilt? His clothes should be in the room, though, probably there. Her dark eyes went to a bin in the corner.
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Post by Dûncariel is Dead. on Nov 16, 2005 16:05:37 GMT -5
"Not... quite. A lightsaber hilt. Silverish, dark grips, couple of buttons... That sort of thing." So that pretty much sounded like the ramblings of a raving lunatic. Which I sort of am. Ah, well
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Post by Absolon on Nov 16, 2005 16:37:57 GMT -5
Kaida went immediately to the bin. A lightsabre! She had never seen one of those before. Sure enough, with the clothes, (which were in pretty bad shape) there was the hilt Mr. Morannin described. Kaida held it up tentatively, wondering if he would mind if she turned it on. This would probably be her last chance to see one...
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Post by Dûncariel is Dead. on Nov 16, 2005 18:12:42 GMT -5
He had already been leaning pretty far forward as the girl moved over to the bin, and he caught himself sliding clean off the bed as she started pulling stuff out. Oh man, this's gonna hurt... Force.
He made sure that he landed standing on his good leg, but he slid fast enough that it jarred everything else. The Force... holds the universe together. But I feel like every piece of me's about to fall onto the floor. Separately.
A movement from the corner caught Chev's eye, then. Please don't cut your arm off... He didn't follow his first instinct, which was to leap after her and catch up the weapon, or to send it flying to his hand via the Force. Instead, he clenched his fist and stood still, letting her have her moment. He had seen something in her dark eyes, a sort of knowing that no little girl should have yet, and that and no other reason kept him from trying to stop her. All he did was say softly, "Be careful. You wouldn't want to end up in here like me."
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Post by Absolon on Nov 17, 2005 16:59:13 GMT -5
"I will." Kaida solemnly promised. She turned it on, and started a little as the blue blade hummed into existance. She could feel Mr. Morannin's anxiety, so she didn't wave it around or try to do any moves with it like she wanted to. Kaida deactivated it, and handed it to Mr. Morannin. "Did you make it?"
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Post by Dûncariel is Dead. on Nov 17, 2005 21:36:03 GMT -5
"Yeah." He reached out and took the weapon, hefting it lightly in his hand. He wasn't the most incredible lightsaber wielder in the world, but it felt good to hold the blade again. A Peace Loving Mushroom without a lightsaber is... well, a Peace Loving Mushroom without a lightsaber. He set it on the bed within easy reach and looked back at the girl.
"Any of my stuff in there salvagable, or am I going to have to re-wardrobe myself before I can walk out of here?"
((EDIT: Ph34r the Peace Loving Mushroom with a lightsaber!!! «dies» Oh, dear, that was funny. Supposed to be Jedi, by the way... ehhhh...))
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Post by Tiana, eh? on Nov 21, 2005 3:32:12 GMT -5
((The censors REALLY hurt RP posts. Heh... brief horrid and overtired post just to establish myself sort of again))
Tiana found herself sitting quietly in a cantina, at least, her narrator thought she was in one because she couldn't remember where she was and was too lazy to look up the post, sipping at a glass of sprite for no real reason whatsoever. It was nice to just sit down and forget about everything...
Oh, crap, she thought, looking at the glass of fizzy beverage. That's NEVER sprite, is it? Setting it aside, she went and ordered water instead, remembering previous flascos.
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Post by Absolon on Nov 21, 2005 11:33:43 GMT -5
"Nothing." Flare smiply stated, because that was how he saw that man. As nothing. He changed his aura to one of surperior indiference. How would the fool react to that?
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Post by Skye Muad'Dib on Nov 21, 2005 19:14:18 GMT -5
With anger. Knowing that what he was doing was stupid, Kaden got up. "Relly?" The in-control part of him stuggled in vain. His hands clenched into fists. He could crush this guy like a bug.
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Post by Absolon on Nov 21, 2005 19:51:00 GMT -5
Kaida went back to the bin, taking stuff out and examining it. "Well, your pants are shredded, and bloody..." Looking over the rest of the stuff she shook her head. "I'm going to say re-wardrobe." Then Kaida giggled. "Unless you want to walk around in that little robe-thing."
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Post by Dûncariel is Dead. on Nov 21, 2005 20:05:51 GMT -5
The J.edi scowled. "Hillarious." Hobbling over with one arm on a wall for support, he examined what was left of his attire. He wrinkled his nose at the damage and sighed. She was right... there wasn't much to be done about the pants. Lifting his long black coat and scrutinizing it, he said to the air beside him. "Well, at least the coat's okay. Suppose I'd better figure out how to get some pants."
He glanced down at his little savior, realizing suddenly that he'd never managed to learn her name. Genius, that's what you are... "Do you have a name?" he asked lightly, "or should I just keep think of you as 'Girl'?"
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