“Absolutely. I am not sure why anyone would want to leave this little guy behind. You could learn so much about the past. I would rather repair something like this than steal creds any day of the week,” He said standing up as he looked around. He did not have much of a place anyways it was embarrassing in the sense that he was so poor and had to live away from the academy. Realistically he knew he could just create or re-allocate money from sources like cred chips and never pay for a thing in his life but it felt wrong to him as he needed to be able to make himself known by his own merits.
He escorted her a good couple of miles down the city and through a rather shady looking area of the city where one would expect the homeless or crooks to be around. This was the one place where people did not look at him differently. He walked up to a sliding door that appeared to be the garage for some sort of speeder back in the day. He waved his hand giving a slight flick of the wrist and the electronic keypad on the door activated and opened up. It was exactly the size one would expect for a speeder garage and it was the entirety of his living space. In the corner of the small room was a mattress laying on a metal frame that looked hand built. The bed was immaculate and the sheets clean and the bed made with an almost OCD level of detail. On the other half of the room was an intricate set up of a computer terminal with multiple screens all of which seemed to activate in his presence. There was a shelf going from the floor to the ceiling with various repair tools and parts and a small table used for electrical work and welding or soldering. In various parts around the room there were small barely 6-inch sized metal sculptures of various flying creatures except they all appeared to move and respond to his presence one might expect a pet to respond.
He looked back at her a bit embarrassed as he rubbed the back of his helmet as a man approached them from the alley. He appeared to be poor as well limping over.
“Heya Devlin you wouldn’t happen to have to have time to check out my leg would you?” He asked holding an old hat in sincerity between his hands.
“Of course,” he said and took a moment to focus on the man’s cybernetic leg the sound of metal whirring could be heard.
“Your bearings are coming loose. Take some of this with you. It will help keep my temporary fix in place for the next week or so. When I have some time, I will make you a new one. If you’ll excuse me I have another client,” he said to the man as he bowed his head and the garage door started to close. He took the old datapad out of his bag and set it down on his desk as he took a seat and looked up at her.
“Sorry about that. This could take a few. I’d say make yourself comfortable but that’s a tall ask,” he said a bit embarrassed about his cramped living quarters.
Katarine Ryiah