An Unusual Day

[Duran Kane]

Cloud City, Bespin

Duran was having an average day. Average. Being bored apparently is average. It was practically every day were he went by and everything was straight up boring. You try seeing things out of the same window everyday. Well, there was the one day he was invited up to the Paradise Atrium, out of lucky randomness. He still has the invite, it sort of an annual pass of some sort. So why not take the chance of using it now, right? And that's what led him up. He didn't anyone familiar, and no one out of the ordinary. He could say it was bustling, with people walking back and forth, serving drinks and conversing and what not. Duran had no interest of the sort. All he was interested in was being up here in the upper class section. Looking out of the window was cool to him, but it was pretty much every window from your average hotel room.

Duran sat on the velvet couch, stroking his chin slowly. He already had a small drink or to. Now it was up to his choice if he wanted to leave. There was truly nothing up here for him to enjoy personally, other than the luxury. He stared at the door, sighing. He might as well stay for a few minutes. He layed back on the couch, closing his eyes slowly, and drifting into a short nap. So much for a usual day.

[member="Asha Hex"]

 

[Lief]

Though she found herself suspended on high above a gas giant, with clouds all around, the young Hex was surprised to find that she barely noticed it at all.

In a moment like this, however, when she turned to stare out of the window of a very high hotel, on an already staggeringly high platform which made up the foundations of Cloud City, it was impossible to miss. Nauseatingly so, in fact.

For a girl who had been born and raised in space, the notion of being afraid of such heights was ludicrous. And yet a sensation of vertigo washed over her all the same as she witnessed how far down the bustling city was in comparison to her presently lofty position.

With her stomach in her throat she finally turned from the wall length window, and continued on down the hallway of the hotel in search of the room she had been provided with. Some sort of modest suite, from the information she had been given, though what that entailed she did not know.

Her eyes flickered over each door she passed by, despite the fact that the relevant number was still pretty far off at this stage. Still she was eager to jump in a refresher, wash off the grime of travel, and get into a fresh set of clothes before venturing out into the City to explore.

She couldn't recall if she had ever been to Bespin before, but if looks were anything to go by then it seemed as though it would be promising indeed.

[member="Duran Kane"]

 

[Duran Kane]

He had awoken from his nap, sort of refreshed and hungry as well. Surprisingly, but not to Duran, there was none left or he ate dinner at home. This is the kind of usual stuff that he was talking about. He turned around to face the giant pane window infornt of him. He looked at the sunset, the sun slowly disappearing over the horizon. He sighed and pushed his body wait against the pane. He took a step or two backwards, and hanging his cloak, that was probably dirty, and he needed a comeback.

Duran had stepped out of his hotel room, and shut the door quietly, so he would not disturb the others in there rooms. He had plans to go get dinner to bring back, and nothing was stopping him at this point. As he turned his head left, he saw a woman that looked awfully confused. Maybe she didn't know where to go? Duran did decide to help her though. He strolled down the hallway in her direction as he stopped right in front of the woman. "Need some help there?"

[member="Asha Hex"]

 

[Lief]

She was halfway down the corridor when a door opened ahead of her, and curiosity bade her to look at the exiting individual even before he spoke out.

He looked a little younger than she was, though if she were to hazard a guess not by too many years, though he dwarfed her rather easily. She didn't doubt he was over six foot tall, which had her straining her neck to look up at him when he stopped just before her. Much in the way she'd had to do when visiting with [member='Thurion Heavenshield'], though the Valkyri had lowered himself more or less to her height at the time. His kind dwarfed even this stranger.

"I'm just looking for my room," she assured him, with a gentle smile, becoming somewhat aware of the fact that the Force flowed differently around him. It wasn't something she'd really been able to register in an individual until her brief lessons with [member='Sargon Vynea'], ever since he had shown her the wonders of sensing the world around them it had come to her somewhat naturally, even when an individual wasn't aware of their own sensitivity.

"Perhaps you can help me?" she added, hoping for a little extra time to gauge his sensitivity, "I'm looking for room 1603? I think I might be on the wrong floor..."

[member="Duran Kane"]

 

[Duran Kane]

​"Definitely, you passed it two floors down. Glad I could help." But there was something else that was stopping him from moving on with his day. Her. It's like she had this aura that he could feel, but it was not something he couldn't explain. This is probably what his mother had been talking about when he was young, but he had forgotten it, not having any care in it whatsoever. But what was its name? Now there was no choice in trying to leave. He honestly had nothing to do anyways, so why waste the time. He looked down at her again, really puzzled and confused. For duran it was all some big puzzle with the pieces in front of him, but not together, and it was his job to put them into the right place.

"Say, do you feel that?"

[member="Asha Hex"]

 

[Lief]

Two whole floors?

What kind of nonsense was that? Asha could only blink as he revealed that information, before shaking her head with a humoured yet confused laugh.

"I must have clicked the wrong button in the turbolift," she said, rubbing the back of her neck somewhat awkwardly, "At any rate, the views up here at least made it somewhat worth it. Thank you!"

She turned to head back the way she had come, focus still on his presence, when the boy asked her a question. Now it felt like she wasn't the only one trying to scope something out, buy more time, and just as quickly as she began to walk away she paused and glanced over her shoulder at him.

"Feel what?" she inquired, raising one brow at him.

Maybe he did know.

Maybe he was more of a Force User than he had first appeared...

[member="Duran Kane"]

 

[Duran Kane]

Wait, so she didn't feel that presence? He knew it was there, but did she? Or did he have the wrong question in mind? Duran had looked puzzled again, still wondering what was it. It was like the answer was on his tongue but he didn't remember.

"You have to feel it! It's like, everywhere? Don't you feel it?"

Did she really not understand, or was she bluffing for time? Who knows at this point.

[member="Asha Hex"]

 

[Lief]

She turned to face him fully, no longer thinking about the room she had missed by two floors.

Two steps brought her toward him, and almost gingerly she reached out to take him softly by the chin, her eyes staring into his as she contemplated where to go with the conversation. Was he talking of the Force, or something else?

"You speak of it, don't you?" she whispered, keeping quiet so as not to alert anyone who might be around them. This was, after all, a First Order controlled world. "The Force?"

By this point she had, of course, released his chin.

[member="Duran Kane"]

 

[Duran Kane]

As she grabbed him, he thought she was insane by this point. She had referred the the aura around them as the 'Force'. Now where near did it ring any bells in his head or come straight of the tongue as if he actually knew what she was talking about. When she had let go of his chin he did have a couple of questions to ask for her?

"So that's what you call it. The Force? It doesn't ring any bells in my ears." He said as he was rubbing his chin in confusion. She sounded like if she said it out loud she would be hunted down or something. It was all still a game to him though.

[member="Asha Hex"]

 

[Lief]

She could tell her actions had left him a little spooked, and so she stepped back to give him a little bit of space.

It wasn't like Asha to get into people's personal space, but truth be told it had come entirely out of the blue. It wasn't every day a complete stranger you passed in the hallway started talking about the Force in so an obscure and unknowing fashion.

"Aye, the Force... You sense it?"

She ran a hand over her cheek for a long moment, before nodding her head. Almost as though she had just made up her mind about something.

"You want to know more?"

[member="Duran Kane"]