Duran sipped a drink colored neon green, ice clanking around a poorly cleaned whiskey glass. In the other hand lay a cigar, smoke idly burning out from beneath a well-aged leather hat. It was busy today in the club on Brandy Street, the smells of old fry oil, cooking meats, and old cigar smoke filling the air outside. Inside it was all body glitter, sharp-sweet alcohol, and powerful musk. Scantily clad beings of all genders danced around poles, cages, and patrons' laps while music thumped and thrummed.
Bliss, really. Much of his work lately was rote goods-moving and smuggling with the occasional chase of a bail jumper in corporate space. Some part of him missed the thrill of a good fight, tricking Republic border patrols, or charging down a corvette with little more than an old X-wing and balls of brass. But it made money, he supposed, and money paid for his drink and his dancing.
Again he went to sip and found his glass was empty. Exhaling breath from his nose and exfiltrated himself from a corner booth and, habitually checking his blasters were still in their place on his belt, strode to the bar. Then there he slipped into a well-worn seat, drink-empty glass clacking and clattering with the sound of ice with nothing to cool.
"Pardon me. A Green Galaxy?" he asked the bartender in accented Basic, a triangle-eared young man with hair arranged low on his left side.The cost and a 50% tip were already on the table as he said it.
@Sreeya