Just havin' a drink. (Saki Lin)

[Ice]

Ice carefully made his way through the asteroid belt that surrounded the planet Roon. It was actually quite a beautiful planet to look at. But beauty is not what he came here for. In fact is was to transport a shipment of Roon Spice. But that wasn't till tomorrow. Today he planned to do nothing but find the nearest interesting bar and have a drink. It had been a long flight after all, and his current small stash had been depleted.

Plotting a course for the Starport, he eventually set down and moved on into town. After paying his docking fees of course. "Those dang fees get higher every time." He grumbled unhappily.

It didn't take him long to find his target. It looked like a little hole in the wall for a bar. But then he noticed local workers heading in. "Well hell. If the locals like it, it should be good."

Stepping into the bar, he took a look around to see what he was dealing with. Satisfied that nothing seemed out of place, he made his way to the bar. "Reactor core please." While he waited for his drink, he turned around and rested his back against the bar. All the while just scanning the area for anything of interest.

[member="Saki lin"]

 

[Saki lin]

Saki Lin was setting at a table with a potential job she was discussing with the man until the man grumlbed stood and lefy ,she cursed him before setting back with a sigh and picking her drink up"great another week without a job"honestly she chose the job of bounty hunter didn't mean she like some parts of it
[member="Ice"]

 

[Ice]

Ice was cooly monitoring the different activities, when he noticed a man get up in quite the annoyed fashion and walk off. No big deal, with the exception that he left behind a young woman. A rather exotic beauty if he did say so himself. But not exactly your normal idea of a woman.

Based on what she was wearing, she was no house wife. If anything she had the look of a hunter about her. "Bounty Hunter perhaps? Naa. Probably just some sort of low level soldier. Or maybe it was just because of her horns." Still he found it odd, the man would just up and leave.

"Hear you are sir." Came the words of the barkeep from behind Ice, as he slid the drink towards his customer. "Thank ya kindly." Viper replied simply as he reached for the drink. If the woman were to look his way, Ice would raise his glass slightly towards her with a smile, take a sip, and then turn back around to enjoy his drink.

"God why can't it just be tomorrow." Ice thought to himself. He didn't like just sitting and waiting for things to happen.

[member="Saki lin"]

 

[Saki lin]

Saki felt a look cast on her and turned seeing a man raising his glass, smiling she took her drink and motioned to the seat"is this taken"she asked looking at him and setting down"heh jobs hard to find hard to keep"she said taking a sip from her bottle
[member="Ice"]

 

[Ice]

He turned to see the young woman asking to sit with him. "Not at all. It's all yours." As she sat down, she mentioned something about jobs. "Oh? Is that so? What kind of jobs were you two discussing over there?" Well this was refreshing. Someone that you didn't have to crack open with a club before they'd say something that wasn't cryptic.

[member="Saki lin"]

 

[Saki lin]

Eh little things guarding shipments but the karker was being cheap with me"she said taking a drink again"and some about killing a center person but like I said really being cheap"she smiled "what brings ya here
[member="Ice"]

 

[Ice]

"Ah!" He said understanding her position. "Yes. Cheap employers can be most annoying. Nothing like someone who demands something from you for nothing."

"As for me. Just picking up some cargo. I was just " lucky" enough to get here early. So here I wait." Ice took a long draw of his drink. "Son what. Are you a merc or bounty hunter or something?"

[member="Saki lin"]

 

[Saki lin]

Eh I consider myself a bounty hunter though I lack the proper equipment and stuff so I'm usually finding a odd job rather then actually hunting"she said taking a sip "so since we are on the subject of jobs you wouldn't happen to have a job would you say for me" she said with a smile
[member="Ice"]

 

[Ice]

"Hmm. Well I don't think I personally would have need of a bounty hunter at the moment. I'm just a humble freighter Captain after all. It's hard just paying my crew at times, much less a bounty for someone. However," Ice ventured, as he eyed the woman over trying to get a feel for the kind of person she was. He was usually good at reading people, though he needed a bit more time with this one if he was to get a good feel for who she was. "I was planning on heading to Nar Shadaa tomorrow after I picked up my cargo. I might be able to negotiate passage for you if you were interested in tagging along. That's of course assuming you don't have a ship. If you do, then I'm afraid I don't really have much I can offer you at the moment other than the recommendation to go where I'm heading. There is usually plenty of work for a bounty hunter on Nar Shadaa. The Hutts their seem to love their death marks on people. Anyway. What are your thoughts?"

[member="Saki lin"]

 

[Saki lin]

She smiled at the man and held out her hand"for now I'll travel with you to nar shadda from there I guess we part ways"she said ass she looked around the bar seeing some men enter and look around"kark"she said putting her hood up
[member="Ice"]

 

[Ice]

"Well alright then. We'll just need to discuss an appropriate trade for passage. I'm sure we can work something out. Let me think on it for a bit." He said as he took her hand and shook.

As he was contemplating what services she might be able to render for a free ride to Nar Shadaa, new arrivals caused her to shield her face. "Well that's not good", he thought to himself. His hand slowly drifted toward the blaster on his hip as he asked softly. "Friends of yours?"

[member="Saki lin"]

 

[Saki lin]

She looked at him with a half grin"guess you can say that "she said keeping her head down low and looking over some as the men head towards the table and looked at her
-lift the hood
She acted as if not hearing cursing in her head
-I said lift the hood
She lifted her hood and the man grinned but not before she pulled him down and slammed his head into the table and stood" which loading dock"she asked in a hurry
[member="Ice"]

 

[Ice]

Ice held back a snort of laughter as Saki dropped the man like a bag of potatoes. When she asked what loading dock, he threw up his hand and gestured 34. That way the man wouldn't hear where she was going. Pulling out his pistol, he took careful aim at the man. "Now who invited you? You just scared away my date."

Ice gestured with his pistol to the man to take a seat. As he sat down, he continued, "So what is this all about?"

[member="Saki lin"]

 

[Saki lin]

The man would slowly sit looking at another guy signiling to chase while he was here"-because that karker scramnrd us of 100 credits "the man said as he looked around then to [member="Ice"]

 

[Ice]

Ice snapped his finger as the second man was about to run after Saki. "Nope. You here too sunshine. And both of you keep your hands where I can see them." His tone was deadly serious as he pulled out a second pistol from his other hip. "Ok seriously guys. You're going to do what? Beat the chic up over a lousy 100 credits? I mean granted that sucks. But...tell you what. How about I buy you each a drink and we call this nonsense off?"

[member="Saki lin"]

 

[Saki lin]

The others slowly walked up and pulled a chair up and sat down sweating, he leaned over and whispered to the other he nodded and sighed"fine a drink then
[member="Ice"]

 

[Ice]

"There. That's better. Barkeep! A couple rounds for my friends here." Ice himself stood from his seat, his pistols still trained on the men. "Well boys. If you don't mind. I'll be off. I need to go find myself another date." He gave a boyish grin and then slowly backed away from them. It was only once he got outside of the cantina that he actually relaxed a little bit. "Well that went...surprisingly well." His attention turned toward the spaceport. "Now time to have another chat with...", he sighed as he tried think. "Wow...I really didn't ask her name?"

With that, he began to walk to the spaceport after her. As he did he kept a weather eye over his shoulder in case the other guys decided a free drink was not fair compensation.

[member="Saki lin"]

 

[Saki lin]

Saki would be around his ship somewhat hidden with her pistol out and ready just in case, soon she saw [member="Ice"] walking up and gave a small smile and approached him"sorry bout what happened back there "she said with a low bow and a smile

 

[Ice]

Ice entered the docking bay, also with pistols drawn, just in case. When he saw her smile and ease her stance, he returned it with a friendly smile of his own. Putting his pistols away Ice asked, "No worries. Wasn't nothin' I couldn't handle. Those kind of people tend to be easily put off when they realize they have pistols trained on them. I'm just glad I hadn't been drinkin' for too long. I may not have seemed so intimidating." He finished with a chuckle. "Anyway. What was that all about anyway?"

He was curious to see if those guys were telling the truth, or if they were just spinning a line.

 

[Saki lin]

Well you see I was doing a job around here and these two needed something they said I I bought it they'd pay me back so I kinda bought it cheap and then raised the price a little"I laugh lightly "Hehehehe I guess they found out
[member="Ice"]