Outside a storm raged, reflecting the storm inside the mind. Lightning flashed, lighting up the darkened room where Dvasius slept. If only it was like a baby. The window sound proofed the room from the outside, but as if through the Force, the sleeping Tsis-Kaar High Inquisitor (he never liked that title, but it was his) swore he could still hear it. It's energy, it's own rage and power reaching out own. The room had darkened automatically, reading his vitals through technology inside to know he was asleep and adjusted for him.
Thunder crashed once again, in his dream of the past or in reality, he couldn't tell and he jerked awake in the dark. The orange fiery glow in his eyes was all that could be seen of him in the dark. Then the lights slowly came up revealing his white hair and scarred face. His breath was quick and shaky. A little red light flashed on his desk and it's device beeped, annoyingly with it. Had that woken him up? He couldn't actually hear the thunder outside. He knew that. He acknowledged the machine but only looked down further at his reflection, in the sheen of the glass, covering the top of his wooden desk. He looked so much like his mother now. He was so much like her now too, he thought to himself. No matter. She wasn't here... he didn't think. He slowed his breath and let out a sigh of forced relief. Kark those nightmares. As if he'd forgotten those days, but it seemed he needed a new reminder every night. At least it would give him greater conviction and more power of the Force he could harness.
Pressing the glowing light he saw a hologram come up, painted in red light. Through the eye of the chauffer he'd sent he could see the... woman? Blue alien, monster woman thing... that was the Mandalorian he'd hired for this job. Or at least was under consideration for the job. A part of him thought she was oddly and stunningly attractive in a weird way... for an alien monstrosity. Still. Damn. He whistled to himself.
She seemed to think the man was just afraid of her, but the driver knew Dvasius was also watching him with an eye, full of a more hateful hunger. A literal eye. Cybernetic, of course. He'd had the driver and all his staff's eye plucked, on his manse or anywhere else's he stayed. Just one. To be replaced with a cybernetic connected to his network so he could see what they see through his own. He quite literally had eyes everywhere. In addition to the blue woman in the back seat the chauffer was terrified of the messages coming over his vision in red letters.
"Stop being a pussy and look at her so I can get a scan or I'll detonate your brain stem!", the one on display now read. He shakingly obeyed, trying not to show tears of fear he wanted to, but could not cry or... he would die. Dvasius felt his fear and breathed it in like a sweet scent or like oxygen or nourishment. He snickered a little bit to himself. The scan came up. An image of the... "woman" came up standing like a 'T' and spinning. There wasn't much. It seemed even the system wasn't entirely sure what she was.
"Hmmph."
He hated not having all the data. Being misinformed was something someone in his career could not afford. She was an amusing creature that seemed to be quite amused herself in general. With the music in the speeder, and at the chauffer's fear. The last probably as much as he was or close anyway.
Cameras outside watched as the car finally pulled up. The driver got out, to the quick, and opened the door for the blue woman. She stretched and got out then the driver scampered away, some time later, back to the speeder and drove away. The little, shaky man was human. Caucasian with a brown, retreating hairline he combed over, but had little else of note about him. Damn. You could just see the cowardice in his movements. He even walked like a schutta. Disgusting, but what'd he expect from a slave.
He focused back on the woman. Hmm. The apparently Mandalorian woman was a lot bigger than he thought originally and pretty... uh, deadly looking. She'd better be worth the credits he was paying.
He could even hear her mumbling song to herself at the door about
"Little pigs". His brow furrowed
, "I'm gonna ignore that", Was all he said. He turned back to the holo-phone and shut off the image projecting and pressed another button,
"Get the door! And hurry the kark up! I got business to attend to..." the man at the other end started to walk away, then halted suddenly, in his tracks,
"And tell that other guy... what was his name? Sherman or something... Who gives a kark. Tell him to bring me some water... no tea, and something to eat. Fast! Or I'll put you both up out back with the others!", The comm went silent and the "servant" did as he was told, with fear induced quickness.
What he was talking about, what was in the back yard... The back "yard" which had a beautiful and vibrant garden, massive trees and bushes everywhere, that even went around into the front.
Domina Prime
might have even seen this and the smaller garden circle in the middle of the driveway she was just standing in. Along the pathway in the backyard, complimenting the beautiful garden, were hanging prisoners of war. Screaming on crosses. Trophies brought back from a battle that he'd recently won to scream a symphony of suffering for him. Likely Dima could hear this too, but barely, over the thunder and the rain.
Another worm-like man opened the large wooden front door. The side to her right, as it opened in two down the middle. This one, also of little note. Perhaps 50 or so years, human, in a nice and expensive looking tux, that was far beyond his own worth.
He barely looked at Dima, afraid of both her and his master. He was a weasel, subservient to any he saw. He knew his place. Partially hiding behind the door, he opened it fully as he turned to lead her inside.
A little while earlier...
Lord Dvasius was standing outside the doors of his little office. They mirrored the front doors, but were a lighter, yellow-brown wood color, not dark mahogany. He'd been standing there for awhile, received his tea, and a nice little meat - cheese sandwich, which he ate pretty fast, since his hangover made him very hungry. Holding the tea in one hand and looking, casually and unconcerned, at nothing. He said,
"Thank you." to the "servant" who brought him his food and refreshment. Then he pulled a standard imperial blaster pistol out from his belt and shot him dead anyway. Right between the eyes without even looking. Never saw it coming. The green blaster bolt lit up that bit of the hall for a second, echoed down them too.
He looked at the "servant" that was about to open the front door for the woman and all he had to say to justify himself, though he didn't need to, as he was a Sith Lord and the master of this house, was,
"I didn't like that guy... or his face.", then shrugged and moved past it, like nothing happened. More "servants" came to drag away the body, and little clean up droids came out immediately, to make it look that way too. The hall was pristine again. Corpse, blaster burn, and bloodstain free. In truth he did hate the man and his face. He did this so he could watch his "servants" piss themselves in fear of him. He loved the taste of fear and suffering. That's why he surrounded himself and his manor with it. It gave him such power to do this. Not to mention, that specific "servant", was always giving him the eye when he thought he was out of Dvasius' sight. His thoughts, almost always, showed he, so badly, wanted to kill his master. Better to kill him first before he could make an attempt. There were plenty of reasons frankly. It was good to remind everyone. He sees everything in this house.
A rather unnecessarily loud and almost unnerving knocking on the door echoed down the hallway in front of them to where Dvasius and his "butler" were standing. The main "butler" anyway. He liked abusing and messing with him the most. His fear was always entertaining. So jittery.
The Sith looked at him, eyes wide as if they were saying
"Move or I'll kill you where you stand" and gestured in that direction with his repetitive head tilts. Then finally he turned in the doors' direction, and pointed to the door,
"Go get it boy!", he said like the man was a kath hound. The man still stood there, confused what he was doing.
"Go get the karking door, dumbass! What the kark? Geeeooooo, schutta.", he
commanded, more serious this time, showing the anger and mockery deeper, in his speaking,
"Or I'll cut off your face!", he added, just cause he woke up pissed and chose violence.
The man rushed to the door and opened it for the blue woman. As the bounty hunter walked in behind his elder "servant" she might have noticed a mark on the bottom left side of his neck. A brand. In the shape of a serpent encircling a diamond with two notches digging into both sides of it, so it looked like a smaller diamond over an arrow. The diamond might be recognized as a symbol the Sith Order was in the habit of using, but the serpent's meaning was unknown, unless she'd encountered other Tsis-Kaar before and had been educated on it, somehow. Doubtful. Dvasius used the symbol of his organization, that he was so proud to be apart of as a mark on the neck to identify his slaves as his.
Now the Lord of Fire, as some he defeated and some who served under his temporary command had come to call him, stood at the end of the long hallway from the doors to outside to those of his office. It intersected as part of a different hallway. Dvasius was just finishing a second sandwich and still drinking his tea, with a straw. He was dressed in typical Sith attire. A black cloak, resembling, and in mockery of the brown ones worn by Jedi, with the hood down. The neck of his armor came all the way, almost below his jaw. It looked like it's meant to connect to a mask of some kind. His scarred, yellow-orange, eyed face and white hair, in the open, above it. Those eyes scanned Dima up and down, not just appreciating her appearance, but studying her. Her worth. Would she be worth what he would be paying, for a little sidekick killing machine. "We'll see.", he thought. His eyes showed curiosity, but mostly they showed the same typical, egotistic indifference Sith usually displayed. Like all was beneath them and not worth their time. Which, with most beings, was true. So many idiots out there.
When the bounty hunter finally stood before him, he said,
"I am Lord Dvasius. I must admit I've never seen a Mandalorian like you," he looked at her, up and down, from her feet to the top of her head. Noticing how tall she really was,
"but looking at you I think you should have no trouble doing the job I need you for. Here's hoping you prove me right.", he said raising the tea slightly.
Suddenly, down the hall to the left, loud, torture sounding screaming and devices, could be heard coming up the stairs from a doorway on the left hand side a ways.
"Shut the karking door!", The Sith screamed back when the screaming took a temporary pause. The door could be heard shutting and then there was complete silence.
"So sorry about that. That's cool though, right? I got all the doors here made sound proof." He was an assassin after all.
He took another sip of tea,
"Wow! Is there vodka in this? Damn. Maybe I shouldn't have killed that guy. Hmmph.", he shrugged, unbothered while continuing to drink it,.
"You! Write that chit down and start doing that. Wait... Why are you even still here? Kark off! ... Thank you!", the last bit he said sarcastically, and mockingly, as if the "butler" was incredibly dumb.
"Anyway. Sorry. What the kark was your name? Did I ask that?", Dvasius said, now actually looking her in the eyes. Looking up into her... man which set of eyes does he look at? He kind of went through looking at all of them and tried focusing on the ones that were most interactive with him.