Apothecary, Thy Drugs Art Quick

[Cassius Droma]

“Really, Cassius, we could have taken care of this on the Stardust,” T-4D4 bemoaned as he poked at his friend’s bruised and burned exposed side. The K-X series security-turned-medical droid applied another bacta patch and sealed it with medical tape.

“Might as well take advantage of the wonderful universal healthcare, right?” Cassius said, only wincing slightly as the droid’s cold, metallic hands did their work. “Didn’t have to use any of the supplies on the Stardust.” It was somewhat of a joke – the young Jedi had designed the light freighter with a fully functional medical suite, which was more than equipped to take care of his injuries. In reality, they were closer to the Chasin City hospital than they were to the landing pads.

“You should be alright now,” T-4D4 said, withdrawing his hands and standing up to full height. “Next time, just cut the mugger’s arm off.” The seven-meter-tall droid turned to the attending nurse that was required to supervise. “We’re done here, I believe.” The nurse merely nodded and moved on. Just as she was about to go to another patient, some sort of commotion at the entrance of the emergency ward pulled her attention.

Cassius looked in the same direction to see a rush of emergency medical personnel pushing in repulsor-stretchers with… children, on them. He didn’t have to be a Jedi to see the pain across their faces, but he certainly felt it, regardless. T-4D4 followed his friend’s gaze towards the entrance and sighed.

“I guess we’re not done here, are we?” he asked.

“Nope,” Cassius muttered, sliding off of the cot, his feet touching the ground. He sucked in a breath as a small burning pain took his side where the low-powered blaster shot had hit. Ignoring it, he put on his tunic as he made his way towards the steadily increasing number of children being taken into a triage unit that was being hurriedly set up. “What’s going on?” he asked over the shoulder of a doctor that was hurriedly grabbing vials from a cabinet.

“Not sure, looks like food poisoning,” she said, in such a hurry that she didn’t even bother to look over to see who she was talking to, and whether or not he should be privy to this information in the first place.

“I’m a Jedi,” Cassius said – it was a common opener to a great many offers of help. “Not a healer, but I can ease their pain.” It was at this point that she actually turned to them and gave the two an once-over. “And he’s a medical droid,” Cassius pointed over his shoulder.

“Start down there,” she pointed to the other side of the room, no time for gratitude or appreciation. This, Cassius understood – he was a man of action. Pleasantries went out the window when lives were on the line.

[member="Lady Kay"]

 

[Kay-Larr]

Kay was already at the hospital for her own check up after taking a nasty fall during a day trip with the Governor of Coruscant. It wasn't what either of them had intended. Yet she was a magnet for trouble and neither of them had seen the marauders until it was too late.

The trouble didn't seem to end there.

Just as she was on her way out, the gurneys started to be pushed in. One or two was only slightly abnormal, yet nearly a dozen?

Kay followed them down the hallway. "What's going on? An accident?"

"No, My Lady. Might of been something that they ate."

They were all being led to the same large observation room. She spotted a familiar face helping out with one of the patients."Cassius? Do you know what happened?" As far as she assumed, [member="Cassius Droma"] was there with them and knew the children.

 

[Cassius Droma]

Cassius looked up as his name was called. He was standing over a young blonde girl, her hand tightly clasped around his, the other holding over her stomach. She was wincing through her pain. Cassius was able to take some of the edge off, but he was far from a healer. It was why he relied on T-4D4 and the bacta tanks on the Stardust to heal his wounds.

“They’re not sure,” he said, no time for pleasantries. “The symptoms are consistent with poisoning.” He tried to have his concern for the children wash away the anger he felt over the possibility of this being intentional. His free hand went to the girl’s forehead, which was burning up.

“We’re stabilizing them,” T-4D4 called from across the room, administering a small vial to a child as another doctor did the same. The other staff and medical droids followed suit, and within a few minutes, the children were reduced to minor aches and pains. The tension in the room lessened, and the normal protocols and procedures began to get the children’s information and diagnose them properly.

Cassius let out a deep breath as he stood next to Lady Kay, looking over the nearly two dozen children that were now under observation. His arms were crossed, brow furrowed. “It’s good to see you again, Lady Kay,” Cassius said. “I can only wish it was under better circumstances.”

“They’ll live,” T-4D4 reported, the tall droid lumbering back towards them. “It was definitely poisoning. Probably ingested.”

Cassius leaned over, looking to a bespectacled man who had followed the children in. He had on a nice suit, so the young Jedi assumed he was some sort of supervisor for whatever school they went to.

“Which school are they from?” he asked. Since he was here… might as well get to the bottom of it. Purposeful for accidental, something had to be done.

[member="Lady Kay"]

 

[Kay-Larr]

Kay blinked and raised a brow. "Poisoning?..." Her voice trailed off as she looked to all of the children laying on their beds in the room. There was just so many of them.

She looked to T-4D4 as he spoke up, glad that everything was getting under control. A small nod was then given to [member="Cassius Droma"] as he stood next to her, watching the goings on in the same manner that she was. "Welcome back to Commenor...." Again her voice trailed off, her mind bpuncing from one thought to another. Mostly about how the poisonings happened in the first place. But also about why he was here. Perhaps he was with the children when they injested the poison?

But the question that he had asked about the school gave her reason to think that he was just as new to this situation as she was. "Chasin City Junior, it looks like. Do you think that they could have eaten bad food from the cafeteria?" The implications from that would be very big. They'd have to find whatever it was, then find out who supplied it, etc. "We have no enemies, Cassius. Perhaps this is just some innocent mistake?"

 

[Cassius Droma]

The school supervisor nodded as Lady Kay suggested where the children were probably from. At the implication that the food from the cafeteria could have been bad, the supervisor visibly swallowed, and his eyes became very wide from behind his spectacles. “We… we take every precaution to make sure that the food the children eat is of the highest quality, my lady…” This was the head of state, after all. His face could very well be associated with a mistake that made nearly a dozen children ill.

“Maybe we should double-check,” Cassius said, his gaze drifting back to the children. “Just to be sure.” His psychometric abilities would hopefully be able to trace back any type of food that was infected or poisoned. “It’s probably best for all food at the school to be locked down and tested while I…” he looked over to Lady Kay, “we…” he added with a questioning tone, “get over there.”

As the queen said that Commenor had no enemies, Cassius frowned and put his thumb under his chin. “There is always an enemy. Visible or not, provoked or not. Neutrality doesn’t always save you from being attacked. Let’s just hope my suspicions are merely paranoia.” If intentional, it would be an act of terrorism, and they could expect a fringe group to claim responsibility soon.

Either way, they needed to act fast. After insuring that they were done at the hospital, Cassius turned to Lady Kay. “I’m assuming you have transport.”

[member="Lady Kay"]

 

[Kay-Larr]

Kay nodded to the school supervisor. She was sure that he was telling the truth. No expense was ever spared. There was no need to cut corners with the school systems on Commenor. "I know that...I know."

Her attention turned back to [member="Cassius Droma"] as he spoke. She nodded in agreement, now going through the many different scenarios in her mind and the changes to her schedule. Her secretary Olivia would have to be notified. "Yes, we'll both investigate this matter." To his words on there always being an enemy, she had to shake her head in disagreement. "Neutrality has saved us. It's about the only thing that has...." Outside of them not involving themselves in conflicts, which had helped them stay safe as well. Perhaps Cassius was just being paranoid. This was probably just an innocent mistake.

"Yes, I have transport. Right this way." She gestured for him to follow as she made her way out of hospital. "I have a landspeeder that'll take us right there." Two guards followed them. They wore simple uniforms, not armour. A sign of how at ease the Commenori were. "Have you heard of poisonings happening elsewhere?" This was the first that she could recall.

 

[Cassius Droma]

Cassius stepped up into the landspeeder, not wanting to waste any time. “Commenor’s peace is admirable, but unfortunately, there always seems to be those who try to destroy it,” he further clarified his point as he snapped his seat belt secure. “External threats aren’t always the only thing you should worry about. Again, though, I’m hoping I’m just paranoid.”

The speeder took off, and within a few minutes, they were at Chasin City Junior. A multitude of staff, faculty, and parents were outside, chatting amongst themselves. A few reporters from various news outlets had arrived, their droid cameras hovering around the school to get b-roll. Thankfully, they had parked so close to the entrance that they were able to get inside before anyone could ask them any questions.

The principal, a hawkish-looking middle-aged woman, came to greet them, an unsure expression on her face. “My Lady Kay, we’re delighted to have you here…”

“Cafeteria,” Cassius said, cutting straight to the point. The hallways were completely clear as they made their way there, the school being eerily quiet for being the middle of the day. That’s what happened when children’s lives were threatened – everything stopped. Cassius’s day certainly did.

“Have you run tests on your food and drink?” Cassius asked the principal as they passed the archway into the empty cafeteria.

“We’re doing that now,” the principal said quickly, wanting to show that she was on top of things.

“What about outside sources of food? Anything from vending machines?”

“There’s a popular bottled tea that the children get…”

“This?” Cassius leaned over to a table where a bottle of such tea was sitting, grabbing it. The principal confirmed with a nod, and the young Jedi closed his eyes, concentrating. The Force began to give him visions of the object’s past, the most recent image being that of one of the children in the hospital drinking from the bottle. He went further back, to the bottling plant, where the liquid had been put into the bottle itself. There wasn’t much after that – no way to tell if the liquid itself was poisoned.

“Can we confirm that all the children in the hospital drank this tea?” If it was indeed this tea, then the next step might be the bottling plant.

[member="Lady Kay"]

 

[Kay-Larr]

Kay just furrowed her brows in thought as the speeder moved. What [member="Cassius Droma"] was saying was more or less what others had said. Each side blames the other for what may happen in the future, yet no such transgression had taken place. She had done her due diligence or so she had thought. If anyone tried to sabotage that, then more than likely they had help from someone on the outside. There seemed to be no motive other than to destabilize her government. Surely that wasn't going on here.

They soon arrived to the school and were ushered quickly inside. Kay bowed her head to the principle and was about to return the greeting when Cassius cut her off short. Instead of saying anything about it she just followed them into the cafeteria, looking over some of the items in the kitchens. Everything seemed on the up and up. Nothing was going bad, not even in the large cooler that housed some of the meats, cheeses and creams.

Kay stepped out of the kitchen in time to see Cassius inspecting a bottle of an iced tea. She never fancied the stuff, it being far too sweet for her tastes. But the younglings seemed to like it. "What are you suggesting? That someone has poisoned them on purpose...with tea?" That would have consequences on her part. If word had gone out about poisoned tea on Commenor, then her special guests would never eat or drink from her stocks ever again. And no doubt this could put a dent in their economy. Trust was a valuable thing to lose. "I know where it comes from. Warehouse District 12. Shall we go there?"

 

[Cassius Droma]

Duroport was a corporation that dealt mostly in importing and exporting various foodstuffs and beverages to systems in the Inner Core. Having an office on Commenor benefitted them greatly – being based in a neutral faction allowed them to move around freely without being constantly inspected and boarded by other factions when in their territory. It was a quiet, simple operation, which made the sudden bursting open of a door a rather drastic change of pace.

Frohm Yeltran stood from his desk, his red eyes squinting into a hard stare as his exasperated assistant rushed in. “What in blazes…”

“We have a problem,” the Nikto uttered, putting a datapad on Frohm’s desk. The Duros looked over it for a moment, then handed it back.

“What does this have to do with us?”

“They’re all from Chasin City Junior,” the assistant said. “The new batch of tea headed there this morning. The one with the diluting…”

“Keep your voice down,” Frohm hissed. “How can you be sure this is our doing?”

“I can’t,” he said, “but if it is…”

“We’d all go away for a long time,” Frohm looked out his office window. “The diluting agent is still at the bottling plant?”

“In the warehouse section, yes. An investigation is already underway. What do you want me to do?”

“Burn it.”

~~~

“We can’t be sure until we see where it’s being bottled,” Cassius said as Kay asked if he thought this was intentional. It was entirely possible that it was indeed an accident, but either way, they needed to find the source and stop production of whatever defective product had caused this in the first place.

He nodded as she asked if they should go where the tea was made, since she knew where it was. Cassius brought the possibly infected bottle with him as they made their way back out to the speeder and told the driver where to go. This was going pretty fast – with any luck, they could have this all wrapped up before dinner.

When he saw the smoke on the horizon, however, he knew that he’d have to take back that time assessment.

The very warehouse that they were to investigate had been engulfed in flames by the time the speeder was pulling up. Thick black smoke billowed into the air, the fire already so hot that Cassius could feel the heat on his face even from the speeder. The fire brigade was already there trying to douse the blaze.

This couldn’t be a coincidence.

[member="Lady Kay"]

 

[Kay-Larr]

Kay nodded to [member="Cassius Droma"] 's statement. Oh yes, they needed to be sure. She nodded to the driver, indication that they needed to get to Warehouse District 12. Her mind was still reeling about how this could've happened, and more importantly why. Why would someone risk poisoning children? There had to be a simpke explanation for it. There just had to be.

And then she saw it. The smoke was rising, black, dirty and thick. A cold chill went down to the pit of her stomach. Without them getting close enough yet, she knew which warehouse it was. The one that they were heading to. Who knew that the ingredients for tea and bottling it were so flammable? But they were.

The fire burned hot, the flames were everywhere, yet the fire brigade seemed to have kept it from spreading to the other warehouses. At least so far. One of them saw the speeder as well as other onlookers and they were directed back in case the building exploded.

Kay looked to Cassius. "Someone was obviously trying to hide something. I suppose we'll have to go to their office." She brought up her commlink and signalled her security. "This is Lady Kay. There's a structure fire in Warehouse District 12. It's the one that bottles tea. Find out where their office is located in the city and send a security team there at once. Don't let any of their staff leave and keep them away from their datapads and consoles. I don't want them to access their networks and erase anything. Understood? Oh, and one more thing...give me the address when you find it."

~Yes, my Lady~

 

[Cassius Droma]

His psychometric abilities wouldn’t of much use here – the only way for him to see the history of an object was to physically touch it, and he couldn’t much touch something if it was on fire. Kay’s idea of finding the office of the company that made the tea was a good idea, but any number of factors could make it fruitless. The poisoning could have been done clandestinely by an outside party at the bottling plant that was now in flames. Cassius wouldn’t be able to tell from here until the fire was extinguished. In the meantime, they needed to head to where this company’s offices were.

If they didn’t act quickly, more children could be poisoned. Or even worse – if this stuff was distributed on a wider scale, they could see more people in the hospitals before the day was through.

~~

Something caught Calle Arcaina’s eye from where he was sitting at his desk. A flurry of movement – multiple bodies entering the room. When he saw that they were Chasin City Security, the Nikto stood, blinking rapidly as orders were shouted at them to keep at their stations and keep hands off of consoles. Arcaina did as he was told, his gaze averting to Frohm’s office. He’d just stepped out for lunch. After this, it was doubtful he’d be back anytime soon.

Arcaina’s breath hitched as he just realized something. He hadn’t erased the import logs yet.

~~

As the speeder arrived at their third location for the day, Cassius hopped out and looked to Kay. “There’s a landing pad around back. I’ll head there and take a look around if you want to go ahead and start with the employees inside. Someone has to know something, whether it’s the company or a rogue element inside.”

Just then, a notification would have dinged on Lady Kay’s datapad, informing her that the tests came back from the hospital: it was indeed the tea that had made the children sick. An additional report was attached: three dozen more had arrived at the hospital with similar symptoms.

[member="Lady Kay"]

 

[Kay-Larr]

Kay looked to @Cassous Droma and nodded. It was a good idea. He'd be able to stop anyone from running out the back way and prevent anyone else from sneaking it. Valuable time was lost as they had to search more than one office.

Just as she was about to respond to him, her datapad dinged. "Hold up, Cassius." She read over the information, frowning once she had gotten to the last part of it. "It is the tea...And soon the hospital will be over run with victims. We're going to have to hurry."

As the security officers continued to hold Arcaina and his fellow workers, Kay quickly typed out an emergency message to be sent to all schools, restaurants and shops selling the bottled tea.

~The bottled tea Rubios is not to be trusted. Stop selling it, remove them from the vending machines and take them to police stations straight away. Anyone that has had even a sip of it should go to the nearest hospital immediately.

Queen Kay Arenais~

Once the message was sent off, she stepped out of the shuttle and headed into the office. One of the security personnel brought the one called Arcaina to her attention. Kay walked over to him, noting his shifty glances and somewhat nervous behaviour. At one of their previous destinations, she had picked up a bottle of the tea. It came in rather handy. No doubt it would do so here too. Kay held it out to him. "You look a little nervous. Thirsty even. Here. Have some tea." She studied him carefully to gage his reaction.

 

[Cassius Droma]

Arcaina swallowed as the Commenori head of state approached him, then offered him a bottle of tea. His gaze became transfixed on the bottle, his nervous fingertips tapping against one another. “I uh…” he glanced around at the security forces. “I… I really prefer water. Tea is a diuretic, you know…” Just then, an overwhelming sense of panic swept over him. They know. And I’ll go to prison.

In one of his lesser-thought out decisions – other than working at Duroport – he suddenly bolted from his desk. The screaming warble of a stun bolt smacked into him within milliseconds, and the Nikto dropped to the ground like a thrown sack of meilooruns. Two security officers cautiously moved in, blasters trained on him.

~~

Eyes closed, hand on one of the cargo containers, Cassius tried to use his psychometric abilities to see if they received any sort of shady shipments. It was difficult to pin down, especially since he had no time when the poisoned tea might have come in, or even if it had come here. There was one group of importers that looked rather sketchy, but the conversation between the cargo haulers and off-loaders was so casual it was hard to tell just what had happened.

“Hey,” a voice pulled him out of his meditation. “They just nabbed someone trying to run.”

Cassius raised an eyebrow. Maybe a line of questioning would help them better than his psychometry at the moment. At the very least, he could maybe establish a timeline of when the tainted tea had arrived, and he could go from there. He headed back inside, hoping that he could question the man they would surely wake up soon to question.

[member="Lady Kay"]

 

[Kay-Larr]

Kay watched as the Nikto becane suddenly nervous. He knew something. As his aggitation got even worse, the Nikto had bolted. Quick reflexes by her security team knocked him out though and ended his escape attempt. The tension in the office increased ten fold.

"Well he certainly knows something, doesn't he? Cuff him, put him in one of the rooms." If they had a lot of time, she'd of kept him isolated for a long while so that his nerves would get the better of him and that he'd crack very easily. But they didn't have that time. Children were getting sick because the company that he worked for, one that was quickly going to lose their business license.

As Arcaina's unconscious body was being removed from the large office, she turned to one of the security guards. "Get Cassius up here please. He might be able to get information that I can't." She then brought out her datapad and after finding the information on this office, Kay went strsight to work at having procedures done to freeze all of their assets in CSA space. No credits were to be transferred, all shipments were to be flagged and contained, all employees were to be questioned by law enforcement. Hopefully it all wouldn't take long.

[member="Cassius Droma"] walked inside just as she finished up. "I think that we have found the right place. I've got someone for you to talk to. He's right in there." She pointed to a door on the other side, more than likely a private office of some sort. Or a broom closet.

 

[Cassius Droma]

Cassius’s eyebrow quirked as he stepped into the room, beholding the sight of the nervous Nikto before him. His hands were restrained, and his nimble fingers were unconsciously picking at them. Breathing erratic, heartbeat likely up there… Lady Kay was certainly right. They’d found the right place. Waving his hand over the man’s wrists, they snapped free. “What’s your name?” Cassius asked, kneeling down so he was eye-level with him.

“Arcaina,” he breathed out, his gaze dancing between him and the Lady Kay.

“Arcaina,” Cassius said, “I usually ask permission before I do something like this, but time is of the essence.” He then reached out, taking hold of the Nikto’s mini-datapad from their shirt pocket. Closing his eyes, Cassius focused his Force energy on the object, tracing its history. There was a recent conversation that Arcaina had with what seemed to be the boss around here…

“Diluting agent,” Cassius’s eyes opened in order to look the Nikto in its beady ones. “Did you put a diluting agent in your tea?”

“Yes…” a tear started to stream down his face. “We… we wanted to save money. There was a dealer that said they could provide us with a cheap diluting agent that would allow us to make more tea for less cost, and they even said the taste would still be the same! We tested it!” he looked desperately to Lady Kay. “We knew it would be safe! It’s just that… higher doses of it…”

“Higher doses causes illness,” Cassius finished his sentence. Arcaina nodded.

“We must have miscalculated the ratio,” Arcaina sniffled.

“Where’s your boss now?” Cassius demanded. From the conversation he saw, he was the one that had ordered the warehouse burned down. That was obstruction at the very least.

“The… the restaurant district, getting lunch,” Arcaina said. “The Alderaanian place.”

“Thank you,” Cassius stood. “I’m sure the prosecutors will be more lenient with you since you’ve helped us.” He then turned to Lady Kay. “Let’s hope he doesn’t try and run.”

[member="Lady Kay"]

 

[Kay-Larr]

Kay stood there with her hands clasped before her as [member="Cassius Droma"] began his questioning. She hadn't bare witness to such a thing before from the outside. Usually she was the one being questioned. Her brows furrowed at the Jedi's skill, being able to gain knowledge from touching an object. A useful thing to keep in mind. She had plenty of secrets and didn't want them to be out in the open, or even known. So she put it in her mind to keep Cassius away from certain places or away from certain objects.

"Thank you Arcaina..." Kay looked from him to Cassius and nodded. She then exited the room, calling out to her security team. "Bring him into the station. We need to hold him until all of this gets cleared up. Call ahead and get some units to the Alderaan restaurant. Don't let anyone leave." Her orders were patched through as she made her way out of the office building and back outside to the land speeder. Kay's mind was swimming over the details learned so far. Were the margins that bad that they had to resort to diluting their products? Or was it just further greed?

Regardless, there was a lot of work to do in order to get to the bottom of this.

 

[Cassius Droma]

Frohm Yeltran gave a light chuckle as a client of his told a joke that wasn’t particularly funny. These kinds of lunches were pretty standard fare for a businessman of his caliber. Laughing at stupid stories and making sure everyone was accommodated were skills he’d picked up long ago. The Duros took a sip of his Corellian ale, using the opportunity to whisper to himself how much he hated these people.

Something caught the corner of his eye as he did so. He looked to the entrance of the restaurant to see a cadre of security guards entering the restaurant. A rush of fear tinged with excitement flowed through him. Pretending that he needed to use the refresher, he stood from the table and headed towards the back of the restaurant, quickly breaking for the kitchen. A yelp from a surprised server caught the security guard’s attention, and a team of two ran towards the swinging doors.

Yeltran burst from the back of the restaurant, already starting to pant a little. He went to his comm device and called up his personal pilot. He told him to ready his ship – he needed to get off planet as soon as possible.

~~

For what felt like the tenth time that day, Cassius hopped out of Lady Kay’s personal speeder. Just as his boots hit the pavement, however, he heard the roar of starship engines overhead. Looking up, he spotted a Theta-class personal shuttle flying dangerously close to the tops of buildings. He looked in the general direction of where it was headed, and saw a small park with a clearing just big enough for it to land.

He started sprinted as fast as he could, knowing deep down, with the Force, that the man they were looking for was going to try and escape using that shuttle.

[member="Lady Kay"]

 

[Kay-Larr]

Kay stepped out of her speeder in behind [member="Cassius Droma"] . It felt as though they were trying to play catch up on a wild goose chase. The guilty party was a few steps ahead of them, but much closer than they were before.

The shuttle moving overhead caught her attention. Her eyes were drawn right to it. Without a second's hesitation, Cassius was already on the run, moving far faster than Kay could do on foot. She looked to one of her guards and nodded. "Help him out."

The guard hit the throttle of the speeder and started after Cassius, moving past him and heading towards the park, all eyes on the shuttle that was trying to land.

Kay on the otherhand signalled her security forces on her commlink. ~This is Lady Kay. Keep all air traffic in and out of Chasin City grounded. We have a suspect trying to escape.~ She didn't see Frohm running out from the back door, and neither did some of the others. All eyes were on the shuttle moving too low in between the buildings.

 

[Cassius Droma]

It was easy to spot Frohm through the crowd of people. Everyone else was either standing there looking at the Theta-­class ship in shock, or backing away uneasily in case the people inside of the shuttle were less than friendly. He was also a Duros, so that made his red eyes easy to spot as the panicked businessman peeked over his shoulder. Cassius picked up the pace, sliding and weaving through bystanders like rushing water through a brook.

He crossed a street, and then he was in the park, the whine of engines sounding as the shuttle began to touch down. Before the landing gear even made contact with the ground, the loading ramp was opening and a private security officer was standing there, blaster pistol drawn.

With only a dozen or so meters between him and Frohm, Cassius reached out his hand, calling on the Force to trip Frohm up. The Duros face-planted, and as he clawed at the dirt in front of him, Cassius pulled the screaming man towards him.

A blaster bolt fired past him. Retrieving his lightsaber, Cassius spun the blade and blocked the next bolt and sent it right into the shoulder of the man on the shuttle, making him drop the blaster. The repulsors from the shuttle kicked up dirt and dust all around them, but Cassius was determined to hold onto Frohm. Hopefully, this was it.

[member="Lady Kay"]

 

[Kay-Larr]

Kay decided to follow [member="Cassius Droma"] , albeit at a far slower pace than him. Two security officers flanked her as she moved at a brisk walk towards the park where the shuttle was landing. The crowds wrre getting boisterous. It wasn't every day that that there was a violent take down and a Jedi igniting his blade.

She caught the light of it before she was even close yet. The blade was a beacon for attention. The security officers brandished their pistols, moving past Kay to keep her safe from enemy fire. Still she pressed them closer. She needed to see Frohm. She needed to find out why he felt compelled to cheat when he knew that it wasn't safe. Was greed really all that was there? There was a big price to pay for his actions. Kay was going to be sure to see to that.

For now though she waited for Cassius to take him into custody. No doubt the duros wasn't going to go down quietly. He had a conniving spirit.