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Private Edge of the Abyss

Ana Rix Ana Rix

He gave a nod of his head to that and there was a chance for a distraction.. they would and should be able to distract them as he was moving. Two blades slipping from his gauntlet but he was looking at it more. "A distraction, Seastone can likely think of something good." He said it and the four lekku of the twi'lek twitched as she looked up. "I can." Mistral looked over at her. "Of course... I have all these unique plans and ideas and now you get the chance to go all out... I want to see what you can really do." He said it and looked at her as he spoke placing a hand on her shoulderr. "This is your moment Seastone a chance to go all out and you can show how awesome you are." He spoke and motioned with his other hand for them to be encouraging as Aya gave a nod. "Yes this is all you."
 
Ana went very still for a moment. Her eyes shifted slowly from Mistral…to Seastone…then back again, as if she were watching a slow-motion accident she couldn't quite stop.

One eyebrow lifted.

"…I don't like how confident you sound about that."

Her tone was quiet, dry, but not unkind. Just…cautious.

She adjusted her grip on the knife, then exhaled softly.

"Alright."

A small nod.

"Distraction is good. Controlled distraction is better."

Her gaze settled on Seastone, steady and thoughtful.

"So before you go all out…"

A slight tilt of her head.

"…define 'all out' for us."

There was the faintest hint of a smile.

"Preferably the version where we're not part of the explosion."

Mistral Mistral
 
Ana Rix Ana Rix

The twi'lek looked at Ana and she spoke. "Explosions.... I don't have an explosives to make explosions... though maybe I could... oh oh oh idea now hear me out. Most bodies here have fat even if you work out and that burns... so what we do it make some torches and set them on fire... once it gets to their bellies the fat will ignite and they will become a pile of ash... no one can find a body if it is dust in the wind." Mistral looked at her. "I don't think we have enough time to burn all of them that quietly." He said it and the twi'lek was looking. "ALright then, we are going to do this the old fashioned way... we're going to get some shovels and tunnel under their positions until we can get inside the buildings and then we come up behind them and sneak attack them."
 
Ana just… stared at Seastone for a moment.

There was a visible pause where her brain tried to process everything that had just been said, failed, and then tried again.

"…I'm sorry—"

She blinked once, slowly.

"…did we just go from burning people into ash to digging tunnels?"

Her voice stayed low for stealth, but there was a very real thread of distress woven through it now.

She dragged a hand briefly over her face, exhaling through her nose as she tried to reset.

"We are on a time-sensitive infiltration…in the middle of a storm…on rock…"

A small, helpless gesture toward the ground.

"…and the plan is to start digging?"

She looked at Mistral, then Aya, like she was checking if this was somehow normal.

"I'm all for creative problem solving," she added, quieter now, "but I would very much prefer a version where we don't spend the next six hours becoming part of the terrain."

A breath. She steadied herself, slipping back into something more grounded.

"We just need noise. Something quick, something controlled, something that pulls them away from that building."

Her eyes flicked back toward the courtyard.

"No firestorms. No excavation projects."

Then, softer, almost pleading, but with a hint of dry humor: "…please."

Mistral Mistral
 
Ana Rix Ana Rix

Mistral was listening to the plans and he nodded with Ana and Aya as mentally he was thinking he might have made a mistake saying Seastone could do this. The twi'lek might think outside the box for solutions and they could come in handy sure but her out of the box might be a little to out of the box if they were not careful. "SHe is right Seastone we need to be able to move fast and make a lot of noise for distraction." He said it and the twi'lek looked at them. "Noise... why didn't you say so... we can totally make noise just give me a moment and I'll distract them for you." She said it as she held a hand up. "I got this dude." SHe said it and waited a moment as she looked at the large shark woman there.

"I've always loved your harem. Remember me." She said it and ran off to distract the guards outside. The storm lashed against the walls as the wind was screaming through the with the rain falling. Seastone moved quickly as Mistral was watching her go and was about to say something as she crested the parapet with a fluid grace that belied the treacherous footing, her bare feet finding purchase on the slick stone as if she had been born to such places. The wind caught her immediately, whipping the azure skirts of her dancer's wraps against her legs and tearing at the four lekku that trailed behind her like the tails of a comet given flesh.

She laughed a bright, defiant sound swallowed almost instantly by the gale and spread her arms wide as if to embrace the storm itself. With a flick of her shoulders, she sent her left lekku curling forward across her collarbone while the right pair swept backward, streaming horizontally in the wind like banners unfurled for battle. She began to move, not with the frantic energy of someone fleeing, but with the deliberate, hypnotic rhythm of a performer who knew exactly when to command a stage. Her hips rolled in a slow, sinuous figure eight as she advanced along the wall, her lekku counterpointing the motion one coiling tight against her spine, another lifting to brush against her cheek before snapping outward with sudden, theatrical force as lightning split the sky behind her.

The thunder that followed was her cue. "Hello!" she sang into the teeth of the storm, her voice pitched to carry, rich and warm and utterly incongruous against the howling wind. "Hello, hello, hello!" She spun, her wraps flaring, and both sets of lekku followed in a helix pattern, twisting around each other before snapping apart like released springs. A guard on the battlement below looked up, his blaster lowering a fraction. Seastone saw him, grinned, and doubled down. She planted one hand on a crenellation, vaulted onto the raised edge of the wall itself, and began to walk it like a tightrope, arms extended for balance.

Her left lekku wrapped loosely around her forearm while the rightmost twined around her waist, the tips curling inward like curious serpents. Rain streamed down their length, making them gleam like polished gemstones in the intermittent flashes of lightning. "I've got a little baby, but she's out of sight," she belted, pitching her voice against the wind with the instinct of someone who had sung in cantinas where the crowd was louder than any storm. She hopped down from the wall, landing in a crouch that sent her lekku sweeping across the stone in a wet fan behind her. "I talk to her across the telephone!"

She rose slowly, letting each vertebra articulate as she came up, her lekku rising with her like a reverse cascade. Now there were three guards watching, their confusion palpable even from a distance. Seastone winked at them actually winked and began to move faster, her feet finding a rhythm that the thunder seemed to echo. She twirled, and her lekku became a blur of motion, centrifugal force sending them spiraling outward in a perfect circle before she stopped dead, planting her feet, letting them all slap wetly against her back and shoulders in a controlled collapse that framed her face like a living headdress.

"Every single morning you will hear me yell," she sang, cupping her hands around her mouth and tilting her face skyward, letting the rain run down her cheeks. Her lekku slithered forward, two draping over her shoulders to hang against her chest while the other two rose behind her, swaying like cobras hypnotized by her own melody. "Hey Central! Fix me up along the line!" She dropped her hands, spun on her heel, and began to kick through puddles with the exuberance of a child, sending arcs of water spraying toward the fortress walls. Her lekku followed each kick's trajectory, snapping outward with her leg, then coiling back as she recovered. The chorus was coming, and she could feel it building in her chest like the storm itself.

When it hit, she threw everything she had at it. "Hello! Ma baby!" She leaped onto a low parapet, balancing on the balls of her feet, her arms thrown wide. Her lekku shot outward in four different directions, straining against the wind like tethers anchoring her to the world. "Hello! Ma honey!" She dropped into a deep lunge, one hand splayed against the stone, the other pressed to her heart as all four lekku swept forward to curl around her extended arm, clinging to it like vines. "Hello! Ma ragtime gal!"

She was moving again, faster now, her feet slapping against the wet stone in a rhythm that seemed to make the lightning pause to listen. Her lekku never stopped twining, parting, curling, snapping, coiling, uncoiling each motion a deliberate punctuation to the nonsense lyrics she poured into the storm. She grabbed a rain gutter, swung herself around it, and let her lekku wrap the pipe as she spun, using the momentum to launch herself into a sliding kneel that brought her to a halt directly above the growing cluster of guards. "Send me a kiss by wire," she crooned, pressing her fingers to her lips and blowing, her lekku rising behind her like a peacock's fan, the rain making them shimmer. "Baby my heart's on fire!"

She lay back against the stone, her lekku spreading beneath her in a wet, tangled halo, and laughed as a gust of wind sent her wraps fluttering up around her thighs. Far below, hidden in the shadows, she knew Mistral and the others were moving. She just had to keep the eyes up here. "Oh baby," she sang to the lightning, to the thunder, to the baffled guards who had never seen anything like her in all their years of watching this miserable wall, "telephone and tell me I'm your own!" She rolled to her feet in one fluid motion, her lekku coiling behind her like springs releasing, and began the whole ridiculous performance again from the top, her voice cutting through the storm like a beacon. "Hello, hello, hello."

Mistral continued to stand there as Aya looked on and she motioned with a hand. "Go go go now." She said it and started running ad Mistral shook his head but he was moving wioth a blade out as he held it but wasn't throwing or slashing just yet. They were distrracted and trying to catch the twi'lek as he was moving and Aya spoke. "Well that was certainly something distracting."
 
Ana watched Seastone go, and for a long, uncharacteristic moment, the galaxy's premier information broker was rendered functionally speechless.

She watched the performance ignite with the singing, the spinning, the sheer, brazen audacity of a woman turning a literal storm into a stage prop. Ana blinked once, then again, her mind momentarily stalling as it tried to categorize what she was seeing.

"…I—"

The sentence died in her throat. There wasn't a string of words in any dialect from the Core to the Unknown Regions that could fully encapsulate the spectacle. Another flash of lightning arced across the sky, illuminating Seastone mid-spin like a chaotic deity.

Ana exhaled slowly through her nose, the sound a mix of exasperation and weary marvel.

"…Okay."

A beat passed as she recalibrated.

"That is definitely…a distraction."

The disbelief was still there, a faint vibration in her tone, but it was being rapidly overwritten by the cold, pragmatic logic that governed her life. Because, absurd as it was, it was working. The guards weren't sweeping the perimeter; they weren't checking the shadows. Their heads were tilted back, eyes glued to the sky.

They were looking up.

As Aya gave the signal, Ana's gaze shifted to Mistral, her expression hardening into the professional mask she wore like a second skin.

"We're really doing this."

It wasn't a question. It was the sound of a woman accepting that the plan had officially crossed the line into madness, and her only choice was to be the most efficient madwoman in the room.

Then, she moved.

She dropped low, her silhouette bleeding into the dark as she advanced with a controlled, predatory grace. Her attention became a rhythmic flicker of checking footing, marking sightlines, calculating the exact moment of exposure. Her grip on the knife was tight but measured, a lethal constant in a world of variables.

"Remind me later," she murmured, her voice barely a ghost of a sound as they slipped into the deeper gloom of the fortifications, "to never doubt her again."

There was a micro-pause. The briefest hesitation in her stride.

"…Or at least, not out loud."

Then the wit vanished, replaced by total focus. She kept pace with them, a quiet shadow moving through a world distracted by thunder, letting the beautiful chaos above buy them the silence they needed to bleed the enemy dry.

Mistral Mistral
 

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