Varin Mortifer
Disciple of Embers
Haro Aven
The streets of Vardin were exceptionally busy on this day. Perhaps it was just the students enjoying a weekend off from their studies. The walkways filled with conversation and spoken promises of plans. Varin could hear some of them as he passed by, whispers of a ship that had crash landed a couple miles out from the walls of the academy. His ship, that had crash landed into the planet. There were still some things he needed from it. Perhaps he could even get it to fly again, perhaps he could get all of the essential systems running again instead of most of them. The ship was an older model, a hybrid class built for combat and cargo hauling. Its hull was thick with plating to make up for its lack of maneuverability.
At any time Varin could have gone by to investigate it and grab some things, but the truth of the matter was he was too afraid. Too afraid of the memories that haunt its walls. The voices and screams that echoed in its halls. He would never admit it to anyone about this fear.
Earlier in his time in the academy he ran into a young man by the name of Haro Aven, a gifted engineer and pilot. He seemed very fitting to help him with this task and perhaps get it to fly again. He was told he worked in the shipyard, Varin didn’t question it, it was just fitting that was where he would be. Perhaps he would even gain a new ally? Or at least someone to talk to. He was still a stranger in a strange land, and his social skills were not great to begin with. So it was no surprise that Varin would just walk up to the shipyard ignoring any AUTHORIZED WORKERS ONLY signs or marked off zones with other engineers using machinery to efficiently do their jobs, some even tried to get his attention but he would shrug them off, until he saw Haro.
Slowly walking up to him he awkwardly held up his hand in a wave from a short distance away and spoke quietly as a couple of worker droids were hauling heavier loads by them.
“Uh…hi..”
Wasn’t his best start to conversation but it was definitely a start.
He let out a shaky long winded breath.
“I wanted to ask for your assistance in something. Do you have time?”