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OOC: Trying to get back into the swing of things. Feel free to join and hopefully we can keep this moving.

Talak had been out of the game for a while, but that was in the nature of having your life upended. The time he'd spent with the Jedi over the past several months had been primarily made up of learning new things, "soul searching" (whatever that meant), and attempting to find the lines that he couldn't cross.

In retrospect, he probably should have made sure not to let the Sith die, but that was never his intention. He hadn't felt bad about it for long, but quickly began to realize that it probably wasn't something a Jedi should be doing in the future.

Now, though, he was back in business. Officially a Jedi and on his own. After the series of debacles that had been his previous operations with the Jedi, he could only hope that this one went better.

The public shuttle set down in one of the middling levels of Coruscant. It was neither the rich and famous, nor the underworlds of the belly. A cool breeze washed over him as soon as the door opened, and though he knew it was artificially generated by the atmospheric controllers of the planet, it had a calming affect nonetheless.

Crowds of people pushed past him as he stood by the door, the hustle and bustle of the early morning businessmen traveling to work, and he quickly exited as he pulled out his datapad.

And the word of the day is "safehouse," he thought to himself. He had come out with the intention of finding the money man for a slave trading operation. The man had set up shop somewhere in this district of Coruscant, and it had fallen to Talak (mostly because he'd volunteered) to find it. He had realized he needed to kick himself back into gear and in a hurry lest he lose his edge, and so here he was. Back on the world that he enjoyed so much.
 

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The first bite should have alerted Mara that the pastry she had picked up was stale, but in her doubts, she needed to confirm that hypothesis or disapprove that the first bite was a fluke with a second bite. Her face distorted further into disgust as she traded for her caf as it was balanced carefully on the guardrail that she was using to hold her own weight. She searched the holo-pages for rumors, talks, or direction for her next story as she waited for the next scheduled shuttle to take her back to Chandrila. It was time for her biannual check in with family, not something she was too enthusiastic about doing.

There were several shuttles arriving and taking off, a crowd of beings hurriedly coming and going made for enough distraction to pull Mara's eyes from her latest rumor of local slave trading that was being overlooked by the FWA. A bump from husky Zeltron caused her stumble off-balance, the caf to burp through the lid and in her face, and her stale pastry was lost over the edge of the railing. The woman tucked her datapad under her arm as she carefully, but hastily, wiped the drops of caf with the back of hand off her chin. Checking her device front and back, she made sure it was safe in the debacle, she didn't want to replace it just quite yet as she used her sleeve to clean off any of droplets from her hot drink

Mara looked up, remember who had run into her and though losing the pink blob to the crowd, she still cried out after him in more so annoyance than anything else.

 

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As was his wont, Talak reached out with the Force to feel the pulsations of this world. This was why he enjoyed coming here the first time: it was vibrant with life and emotion in a way that even a forest or jungle wasn't. The minds of this world painted it in an entirely unusual way.

A flash of sudden anger drew his attention, and he looked over to see a woman storming off after a Zeltron for one reason or another. He didn't pay it much attention at first until something clicked in his mind. It wasn't her, but him. The man positively radiated malice. It wasn't unlike being around a Sith in some ways. Swirls of black and red anger and violence prompted Talak to frown and head after him. In the crowd that was easier said than done, but it was worth the attempt. This seemed like it could be a lead... or maybe he was chasing a wild bantha, but either way it was worth a look.
 

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It had been awhile since Kiara had been back home to Coruscant. Longer still since she'd breathed the fresh air of the more open areas of the ecumenopolis. Last time she'd been here, it was deep down in the dingy parts, the parts the people of this area seldom thought about, let alone cared enough to help.

There was business to attend to but Ki had time to kill, stopping by one of the caf shops that grabbed her interest over the others. Nothing seemed particularly special or superior about it, but their sign was cute and they had a holoboard out front with a punny phrase of the day.

Coming back outside, iced vanilla something or other in hand, Kiara couldn't help but notice a chunky Zeltron bump into some innocent girl, knocking the drink she was holding all over the place and not even bothering to stop and apologize. With still more than a little time to kill, and the caffeine from her drink maybe charging her up a little bit, Kiara felt that somebody ought to say something.

Hey asshole! She said, stepping in front of the scurrying Zeltron and poking him hard in the chest. It was now that Kiara really got a good look at him and noticed she mistook his general thiccness for tubbery, when in fact it seemed like the guy was chiseled out of stone. Oh well, if he wanted to catch some smoke, Kiara wasn't going to back down.

I think you owe that girl and apology, She said, pointing over to @Amarante Proulx.

The Zeltron looked Kiara up and down with a condescending laugh before moving his coat a bit and flashing the blaster slung on his waist. Get out of my way girl or I'll put a hole in your head.

Figuring that only a complete psycho would open fire on a crowded middle-class street on Coruscant, Ki decided to press her luck. You carry that around because you're compensating for something, Pinky? Kiara looked him up and down and gave her own critical laugh. I guess what they say about Zeltrons is true. She had no idea if anyone said anything about Zeltrons, but Ki was feeling antagonistic. I'll say it again, I think you should apologize.

The Zeltron seemed to be done with the talking and was moving straight to the punching. He tried to give Kiara a swift sucker punch which she was able to duck, but just barely.

Hopefully she hadn't bitten off entirely more than she could chew.
 

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For all Coruscant was-- the former capital of the Galaxy, a home to an uncountable amount of living beings, and an exceptional multitude of opportunities for anyone of any profession (legal or otherwise)... Laeonas was already bored of it.

Ofcourse, the boy didn't dislike the time he spent on Coruscant-- far from it. There were literally to many things to do. He could probably live a thousand years, going to every bar, illicit club, theatre act, watch every single piece of media he could, and he still wouldn't have even scratched the surface of what this planet had to offer.

What he found most interesting, however, was that one of the most sought after commodities on Coruscant was one of the most bland, widespread, and accessible things across the entire galaxy.

People fought to see sun shine.

Well, "fought" wasn't really the right term. More accurately they all worked wage jobs or stole shit to survive, and maybe one or two in a billion would get lucky enough to make enough money to buy a tiny apartment 1-2 levels above where they currently were. Compound that over a hundred generations, and maybe you might just have a Coruscanti elite, living on the highest couple of levels, living the good life.

Or you could skip all that and rent out a hotel room for a week or two on level 75 with the help of some wealthy Sith you had worked a job or two with.

Whichever you found easier.

That was exactly what Laeonas had done, and at the moment he was enjoying the fruits of his highly illegal labor. He was strutting around in some very expensive, but very stylish clothing. There wasn't much to be said about him-- he blended in with most Coruscanti perfectly. On this level, he might even look a bit more opulent than most, despite probably being worth a hundred times less than the average citizen. It was only when he opened his mouth and revealed the thick, uneducated, lower Brentaali dialect of basic that he spoke that people would look at him differently.

That was pretty standard though-- another unremarkable, common feature on Coruscant. He glanced up, a few rays of sunshine coming down through the grating along several kilometers of metal. He could make it out-- many people could. They stood along the balconies and just gazed up in the evenings, looking at the bright sky that most people on the planet would spend a lifetime only getting to dream of.

Yet here he was, eyeing it up like a dancer's a-

He paused, as some commotion opened up behind him. He caught a few words, the last being something about holes, and heads, and Laeonas instantly knew that his day was about to get a lot less fun.

"Kriffin' what tha 'ell is goin' on now?" The boy said, turning around and walking a bit in the direction he'd heard things coming from-- and what he was confronted with was a tall Zeltron taking swings at some other girl. "Great, proba'lly some lower level thug with to much ta drink. Sounds laike me... but definitely way more of a man-schutta."

"OI! Cut it the kriff out, eh... pink guy!"
Laeonas shouted, taking a few steps forward. He started pulling with the force a bit-- who knew what he could accomplish?


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It seemed her distraught encounter did not go unnoticed as the Zeltron was stopped by another who insisted he apologized. Realizing it was not really worth the trouble, Mara quickly collected herself and tried to intervene, but upon hearing this guy wanted to put a blast hole through her head, it seemed things were moving quickly in a volatile direction. In almost a blink, Mara had traded her datapad for her holorecorder, live-streaming the encounter as approached as closely as she could without the risk of entering face-punch distance.

However, there was a second person who joined in (@Laeonas Tannaras), calling out the Zeltron to apologize, though Mara did not think this was entirely necessary, there were plenty of a-holes on Coruscant. It was rather a normal encounter around her, though Mara kept recording, "Hey, yeah, no big deal, just let him pass, the only thing ruined was my caf..." the girl chimed in, though admittedly, without that caf, she was not fully ready for her day and she was not ready to stream a shot out this morning.

She expected this to fizzle out in the next few seconds, however, what Mara was not banking on for the Zeltron to have friends, which seemed to be the case as another Zeltron and Falleen joined, backing up their pink commrade.

"Kriff..." she whispered, "This should be great..." she turned slightly to look at the dark haired girl (@Kiara Shan) who had intervene in the first place, "Maybe all three are here for an apology lesson..." she suggested with a frown followed with a grimace.



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Talak was beginning to think that the Force was playing a bad joke on him. Now, not only was there one angry woman charging after pinkie, there was now an extra two people yelling. He couldn't hear what the Zeltron said in response, but he could sense that swirling animosity begin to spin faster, like a whirlpool ready to swallow up a ship. It was the feeling right before violence erupted.

Out of instinct, his fingers brushed the hilt of the lightsaber at the back of his belt before slipping it from his belt and into concealment. No point in declaring himself a Jedi before he was ready.

Oh, but he had friends. Of course he did. Talak's mind fell into a well-practiced rhythm of sizing up his opponents and the general situation. A gunfight in a crowded street wasn't at all what he was looking for, and he swept down upon them even more quickly in hopes of defusing the situation.

I'm sure no harm was intended and this gentleman was just in a hurry to some important business, he said, glancing at the bulky man.

It's not like we need to call Coruscant Security just because of some spilled caf. Maybe I could pay for the cup, he said looking to the offended party and hoping to alleviate the situation. He also hoped that mentioning CSF would deter any further violence. If not... well, then as the Jedi said, it would be time for aggressive negotiations.
 

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With the sucker punch just barely missing Kiara, the Zeltron yanked the iced caf from the feisty human and gave it a slight squeeze and a toss toward her. The cold and sugary contents would splash across her unless miraculous she was able to teleport away; one of the Zeltron's pals gave her a shove to push her out of their way as another human approached. He tried to ease any more temperaments by suggesting the incident were an accident and offered to buy a new cup of caf.

Mara kept filming, though the offer of a free cup of caf was a welcoming offer. She glanced at the man and then back at the Zeltron and his posse as they decided to move on, hopefully with no further interruption. Mara guessed the mentioned of Coruscant's security forces was not something they wanted to deal with, nor did CSF would want to deal with such a scuffle when their resources could be used elsewhere. She was really hoping it would evolve into something more, just to be in that right spot at the right time, it always gotten so many reads on the holonet. Letting out a long sigh she stopped the video and pocketed the device.

"I definitely could use that cup of caf. Large, extra cream." she informed, crossing her arms.



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From her own comfortable distance, a pair of golden eyes watched calmly from over the rim of her own steaming to-go cup. Black, with heaping spoonfuls of sugar barely stirred in. The spike in animosity had attracted her attention first; what caught her attention next was the woman recording the whole thing, but then a male approached. There was a feeling of... something... almost familiar. A sense that tingled in the back of her brain, making her pause and stare intently.

As for the Doctor herself, she was taking a break after a trying client-filled day. The Loth-cats needed feeding, and she needed a caf refreshment. Happenstance as it was, it was more interesting than the endless piles of drivel that slung across her ears each day, spewed from the mouths of the ignorant many of the galaxy.

The good Doctor took another long sip, then sighed and stood. Gave an absent tug to her jacket, then lifted her black bag. She was about to step past the group--merely an excuse to get closer to the action, then safely away--, before the request of a new caf was brought up as she was walking past. Her step paused for merely a moment, and then she continued a little further before pausing again, staring at the profile of the strange male who intercepted.

Again, a feeling tingling at the back of her mind... and for some reason, a spike of hostility flared in her chest before she smothered it out. She made to move away, but instead stepped further into the crowd, pressing into a wall to watch from her own distance, and observe these troublemakers and drink her own caf in peace.

It would be more interesting and diverting from patient reports, at least, and she could afford to linger some time longer before her next client.

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There was an uncharacteristically quick resolution to the confrontation, and as the men seemed to back away, Laeonas dropped whatever stance he had held. The woman he had come to the aid to had seemed to calm as well. "Well, that was quicker than Ai'd hoped. Almost wanted ta break a jaw'r two." He said, a friendly grin spreading across his face. He was about to intoduce himself, but he stopped. The boy was always wary of acting like a white knight-- something his mother had taught him to despise after recounts of her first meeting with his father.

The boy turned to leave, but he finally took note of an additional man. He had gotten himself involved with the whole affair as well. He seemed to be of a similar build, and was only barely shorter than the boy-- and there was something familiar about his presence. Stopping himself from giving a simple nod, Laeonas stood there, still for only a few seconds.

The force was churning from the sheer presence of life on Coruscant. It was difficult for Laeonas to focus on the presence of a single individual (and not simply drown in the ocean of life), when within a five mile radius, there were at least hundreds of thousands of other individuals. He could probably only pick out a single person with any clarity at all... if they had an especially strong presence.

Laeonas paused for a brief moment. He ran his eyes over the man again. There had been no... unusual activity from the coffee--offering merc looking gent, but Laeonas quickly realized he might have simply missed it while he focused on trying to get the Zeltron gone.

There was also the familiarity in his presence. It was small, but the man's presence in the force was... similar to something. He could sense it. There wasn't an excessive amount of wrongness in the force-- nothing like he'd found in Sith.

Stepping back, Laeonas took a deep breathe, trying to get a bit calmer. "If yer gonna offer tha girl a drink, at least take 'er out'ta dinner first." the boy said, trying to crack a joke-- but his tone was shaky. He dug his nails into his palm, and gritted his teeth a bit. "...sorry, th'at landed badly. Ai, uh... don't suppose ya could'get me one to?"

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Despite having offered to buy a new coffee, Talak's mind was still far afield, chasing after his quarry who was already walking away and toward... wherever he was going.

Then the man cracked a joke about buying dinner and buying him a drink as well, and Talak just looked at him with a completely blank expression. Most of his mental capacity was still focused on tracking the man who was walking away, and the answer the man got was really only a half-committed one.

Uh... no, um, here's for the... he glanced back over his shoulder at the Zeltron as he pulled out a few credit chits.

Here's for the caf. I have to get going, he said before heading after the criminal. Whether the others grew curious or suspicious would remain to be seen, but it was clear the Jedi was not focused on the conversation at hand.
 

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"You know I'll just escape right?" The male palliduvan said as Roland finished signing the official transfer details. "Those Sith Order fellas made you sector rangers and jedi look like a bunch of chumps. HA!" The smile stayed on the man's face. His face was not particularly ugly but his lanky frame and the prison jumpsuit he was wearing didn't look too flattering in the the Ranger's. It never did.

"Is that right?" The Mandalorian sighed, having to deal with the transporting of the criminal for the better part of a few days. His narrative was, unimaginative. "uh-huh. Might have caught me but there's more where I come from." Roland gave a nod to the prison guard, mostly ignoring the Palliduvan's words since he had heard it all before. "Unlike you, Ulli..." His cross visored helmet gave the criminal one last look. "...Sith can make friends. Enjoy the life sentence." The cloak's hem fluttered as the Ranger left the prison and even as the man resorted to huttese and cursed him out.

As soon as he got back into the front seat of the airspeeder his commlink chirped. "This is Rook." He recognized the number being from the Ranger office. "You still have that prisoner?"

"No. Just finished dropping him off. Why?"

"Good. Need you to go check some something out in sector uh..." The sound of some files and items being shuffled followed. "Middle levels, I'll just send you the coordinates. Anyways there's some Jedi who's looking into a slaving operation. Talak Rand. You know him?"

"I know of him. Don't think we've met. Come on, you really going to dispatch me on something like this?" His voice didn't sound excited. Mostly because he didn't like staying on city planets longer than he had to. "Nevermindwhatever." His hand waved in the air to backtrack his complaint. The job needed doing and he was available. No need to be lazy. Roland learned from Indy so maybe this Talak guy could enlighten him as a silver lining. "I'll be there as soon as I can." With that, he took off and left the prison behind in the rearview. It didn't stop him from glancing up at the structure's reflection, remembering. The Ranger hadn't been back on Coruscant since that incident.

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There were some awkward words thrown around that made Mara internally cringe; her eyes fell back on the Jedi who offered to buy her a new cup of caf, handing her a few credits as he seemed entirely too distracted by the gang encounter moments earlier. Once the credits dropped into her palm, he was gone and Mara looked down, frowning as she mentally added up the credits. She frowned, realizing it would only buy her a small cup of caf and instead of heading back to the cafe, she pocketed the change. The top of the man's head could be seen in the distance behind Pinky and Mara chewed on a hunch, her heart began to beat faster as her thoughts raced through her head.

Pulling out datapad she cancelled her flight home and prepped her camera, it would sure beat being interrogated by her parents for a story that could stir up talk on Coruscant. There was no hesitation now as she followed the tail of her mystery man and the Zeltron led trio. What the results would entail on this investigation, Mara was uncertain like most of her work.

She pulled out her holorecorder and double checked the charge and settings, grasping it tightly in her palm when she was satisfied and weaved her way through the crowd until she was able to keep safe but observable distance.

 

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Talak was more than a bit distracted as he considered to follow the man. Even with the strange species that were all over Coruscant, the pink alien stood out quite clearly, which was a blessing as far as Talak was concerned. Blending in wasn't their specialty.

The man slipped into a nearby building, and Talak had failed to notice the attention of the woman who was now following him. Nor had he been told a member of the Sector Rangers had been deployed to help him in his work.

Talak followed inside the building - a large apartment complex with vendors filling the public areas - and let his eyes scan over the individuals present. He didn't catch any sight of the man, but he knew that even if he couldn't see him now, he had to be in the building, didn't he?

Or not. It wasn't like the building had a single exit. He reached out to the Force, but he wasn't familiar enough with the man to be able to gain any sort of precise view of him. @Darasuum @GABA
 

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The airspeeder had a comlink integrated into it so he thought it best to call ahead and get an idea of where the Jedi was. All the Ranger had was a section of the ecumonoplis which he had been dispatched. It would be easier than chasing down the person he was supposed to assist. But the Jedi had to tell him where he was first.

Regardless, the innocuous airspeeder would be swiftly brought to the middle levels a few blocks. Numerous airspeeders, hover buses, transit cars and foot traffic along catwalks showed the place was a busy area. Roland wondered if he remembered what Talak looked like or if he would be able to pick him out in a Coruscant Crowd.

If Talak didn't answer his comlink he wouldn't leave a message. Instead the Ranger would sigh and park the airspeeder a block up and east from the building the Knight was currently entering, unaware of their coincidentally close proximity. Opening the airspeeder's window he would send out his seeker droid, gremlin, to see if it could spot the man's face among one of the numerous crowds. At least that way he would have an extra set of eyes. Roland had no idea what kind of threat Talak was going up against. His visor turned to look at the datapad in the passenger seat. Do Jedi get lost? He wondered to himself.

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Mara continued in her own pursuit, speeding up to avoid losing the men, slowing down to avoid detection, a skill she has done enough times that never seen to be any easier the more she did it. Eventually the trail stopped, a towering apartment building swallowing the man who dispelled the Zeltron gang earlier as Mara watched carefully. She angled her holocam, snapping a holopic of the building before she approached any closer. She tightened the strap to her bag, pulling it closer to her body as she hurried to catch up, she could see the man inside through the window and took another picture.

The woman took a deep breath in and looked around, cringing at the idea of running into him after the spat earlier and decided to find another way inside. She pushed herself off the wall and quickly hustled around the corner of the building, no doubt there were many ways to get into the building and Mara was impressed by the attempts to keep to fire codes as she found an emergency exit, locks broken.

Mara gave herself an internal high-five for her luck, however, now she needed to find out where everyone was going.

 

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The comlink in Talak's ear began to beep quietly, and he pressed the button to respond. Hello? he asked, trying to suppress any annoyance in his voice at being interrupted right now. He still didn't slow his pace as he pressed on through the apartment building.

He let his fingers brush along the walls of the apartment building, eyes closed as he reached out with the Force to try to sense his prey. No, his target. No, not target, that was Sith language, right? His... suspect? That just sounded wrong.

Something seemed... familiar. Perhaps it was the "scent" of the suspect. He had half a mind to just knock on the apartment, but thought better of it after a moment. Instead, he made his way into the adjacent room - with the help of an electronic lock picker - and pushed the door open.

The smell was... like body odor, and he wondered who actually lived in this squalor. He could only imagine what was going on in the adjacent room with pinkie.

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Going through the emergency exit stairway was not viable, leaving Mara huffing at every fail-to-open door as she climbed up several flights of stairs before finding one that allowed her to exit onto a floor. However, to her luck, it opened to nothing, just a gutted floor, not even the existence of walls to divide each of the units. Sighing, Mara continued onward, starting to feel her legs burn from the stair climb and a desperation for a working crystal ball to tell her where she needed to go. It may have even been a point for her to turn around and forget about this as her own grumbling thoughts distracted her from the voices behind the door.

She opened it with a wide swing and there was a sudden realization mistakes had been made. She placed a fist on her hip and a coy albeit charming smile broke when she starred down a scarred up Bith and his ashy Imroosian partner. "Sorry, must be the wrong floooorrr-" she let out a yelp of surprise as the Imroosian grabbed her by the arm before she could turn around. The bith spoke something, but Mara didn't catch it as she was forced back down the hall, "Hey, now, seriously, I forgot I couldn't come here, so if you just let me go, then we can all just forget..."

The door opened up and the pink zeltron from earlier was in the room along with several others as they had been crowded around a table. The zeltron eyed her as their conversations halted, clearly recognizing the girl from earlier, the look of annoyance looked more like a look to kill and Mara grimaced at the idea of dying in a trash room. Mara noted just how much the room was covered in trash, as though they were to just throw with whatever when they were done eating or drinking and it certainly smelled like a waste yard. Mara frowned as she politely declined to sit when the bith pointed to a formally upholstered chair, its stuffing protruded from random holes and she was certain brown was not its natural color. Someone pushed her from behind and Mara got the picture, raising her hands and then taking a seat.

She was always wanting some extra detail of the people she followed for a story, but this is not what she had in mind.



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His brow furrowed a moment underneath his helmet at the response when his call came through. The ranger continued to park the vehicle all the same. "Uh...Knight Rand? Rand, this is Sector Ranger Rook. I've been told we're supposed to meet up and I'm going to be assisting you. Where are you?"

Roland got out of the speeder and headed down the block unless he could get a closer point to arrive at. Slavers. Who's ballsy enough to even try and slave in the core? The Mandalorian prefered to not think about it but seeing as it was his assignment now there was certainly no avoiding it. It wasn't about the idea of slavery. It was more about how much the Ranger loathed it. As he made his way forward his jaw clenched and unclenched several times. Maybe he needed to start chewing gum again.

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Talak frowned a bit as the Sector Ranger said that he was here to help Talak. He wasn't frowning because the help would be bad, but because he hadn't been expecting it and he was currently doing something that was... questionably legal. Breaking and entering in order to get into an adjacent apartment wasn't strictly legal.

He picked up his pace and slipped out the window on the other side. The bustling of the skylanes could be heard not so far away and he could now see that the other side of the "wall" was a straight drop into the lower levels of Coruscant. This was along one of the walls that led down to the lower reaches.

Pursuing a suspect. Transmitting location, he said, easing his way along the very small walkway that acted as something of an emergency exit between the apartments.

He reached the window, reaching out with the Force to give it a nudge and try to determine if it was locked. It seemed to be. Wonderful.

What's your ETA? he asked, wondering if the Ranger might be able to distract them at the front while Talak came in the rear window.
 
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