Cantina Blues

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Really, you'd want to crack a bottle of Corellian Ale over the head of a nice guy like me? I know you liked me, but I didn't think you'd try to show it in the classic barfight way...

He was grinning now. There was no way to keep his joking inside.
 

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Makina punches him in the arm laughing. She shakes her head her laughing having died down to a chuckle. Who knew what could happen when the two started joking around like this.
 

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Barac simply smiled as she gave him a playful punch in the arm. In response, he took his arm and put it around her shoulder in a friendly manner.

Your move.
 

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"Whaddaya mean?" She looks up at him with a puzzled expression.
 

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Well, let's see... I just put my arm around you in a friendly/romantic manner. What's your response to that?

Barac grinned. He was clearly hitting on her in a joking manner.

 

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Makina shoves him back. "Stop it." She looks at her watch again. About twenty minutes left.
 

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Barac smiled. He had done his work, and went back to making some more Hyperdrive Cocktails.
 

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She rolled her eyes at his antics and leaned on the counter watching him.
 

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After a few more minutes, everyone in the bar was busy drinking, and Barac smiled, leaning back on the bar as he looked at Makina.

Everyone's happy, all courtesy of Barac Subhic and his Hyperdrive Cocktails.
 

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Makina rolls her eyes again. "Uh huh. Well we still got a lot of time to kill."
 

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Stepping over to an antiquated jukebox, Barac put a credit into it and chose a classic song. Being the cheesy bastard he was, he held a hand out and spoke in a gentlemanly(read: british) accent.

May I have this dance, milady?
 

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[COLOR="#33033"]"I-I don't dance."[/COLOR] Makina shook her head quickly. She admitted to herself she loved the song but she couldn't and wouldn't dance.

(OOC: Very classy I love your choice :p)
 

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(It seemed right, considering they were in the cantina)

Well, let me teach you.

Barac smiled and held his hand out to Makina. He did dance in his spare time, which wasn't much.
 

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In the corner of the bar rested a shadow, a presence really. On Tatooine, he didn’t exist. Not really, not in the lives of any of the people here in this cantina. To them, he was just an enigma in the corner of the bar, a face hidden in the shadows of a dark brown cloak that covered even his head. He was content with that. This man wasn’t here to socialize.

Cantinas like these were where he could know Tatooine without having to interact with its people. Not that he disliked them, not at all. He simply wasn’t prepared to interact with them. It was too dangerous, not just for him but those who followed him. The time wasn’t right.

Instead, he came here to watch. Listen. What were the people of this world thinking at any given time? What were their dreams, their hopes, their fears? What ailed them? He would wonder how they got by on a world within the Hutt Empire, controlled more than many other worlds in the Hutt domain—a domain that was expanding with each passing day, as the Republic lost more and more star systems in the increasingly bleak war against the Empire. It was strange that slugs like the Hutts would choose to live in the desert, given all their other choices, but they did. It was to their benefit, and at the expense of the people they ruled here.

As he listened, he took interest at what was happening up at the bar, watching the patron and the bartender speak. The bartender looked somewhat uncomfortable, and the patron a bit too forward. Sadly, tame didn’t even begin to describe a situation like that in the context of this world, not with the scum that inhabited it. Still, he watched this one, not in any sort of obvious way, but subtly enough to make sure nothing got too out of hand.
 

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Makina sighed. "I don't wantto dance." She smiled at the music though. She loved music but hated dancing. What was wrong with just listening?
 

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Suit yourself.

As Barac listened to the music, the splendid tune that flowed through the air of the cantina, he felt like he was being watched. He didn't know by who or why he was being watched... All he knw was that someone was keeping a close eye on him. Maybe it was because of his spacecraft. Getting behind the counter, he fingered his pulse-wave blaster for a bit before shrugging the feeling off. If someone wanted to do something to him, then they would've done it by now.
 

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Makina smirks and pours herself a glass of ale. She notices Baracs uneasiness but shrugs it off. It was a cantina after all.
 

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He may not have lived amongst the people of Tatooine, but he certainly knew them. He felt a sense of joy when they defied his expectations. Something about the man at the bar made him feel that things would go awry for him and the woman he was attempting to woo, but, so far, the man was proving he was not like the scum of this world, or was at least showing some self-restraint. It was a quality that would serve Tatooine well, for it was people ignoring the demons of the desert that would ultimately inspire light across the sands.

Standing up, he took a moment to discreetly stretch his legs. He was getting older, far too old for his liking, but such was the course of life. He felt embarrassed to admit how old he was, no matter how little sense that made. While he knew that the man he was today was the sum of everything that had come before, he still yearned for the days when he was younger. It was those days when he toiled in the deserts of Halm, having no meaning in his life until that angel appeared before him. He had to wonder what he could have accomplished in the body of the young moisture farmer he once was.

Now, he walked towards the bar, gently placing his glass atop it. His face was still obscured by the dim lighting in this part of the room, but he turned towards the patron he had been watching nonetheless, no longer subtly either. He looked him up and down, getting a sense of who the man was. It was hard to get a read on the types of people who populated these bars, though. How they presented themselves visually could only say so much. It was only through hearing their words could he truly know.

“I know the feeling,” he quipped. “Rejection and all. I’m simply glad you didn’t succumb to any bad habits that can be picked up on this world.”
 

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Barac went over to make himself a Hyperdrive Cocktail, andwhen he turned back to the bar, one of the patrons was there. He recognized the man... He had been in earlier, barely noticed. And yet, as he looked at the man, he realized that this was the man who had been looking at him earlier. Why else would he have chosen to suddenly come up to the bar after noticing his conversation with Makina.

I appreciate the complement, sir. It's the way me and her do things: a bit of friendly banter and some joking romance.

He paused, relaizing that he was possibly playing into this man's hands.

Can I get you something else to drink, sir? And if you need droids or starfighters, well... Barac Subhic's the man to talk with.

He smiled. A little self-promotion here and there wasn't that bad. After all, he almost never got any calls or orders from outside the city.
 

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Barac was astute. The stranger would give him that much, and although he did not have the great power that he was sworn to remain faithful to, he did have keen and slightly more attuned senses. He could tell when someone knew things, so long as it was right there on the surface of their mind. Indeed, he had been watching Barac. Given his line of work, perhaps he was meant to, even unknowingly.

"An interesting offer," the stranger said, rubbing the whiskers beneath his hood. "Perhaps, at another time, I can take you up on the offer for those weapons. What do you sell, and who do you sell to, if you don't mind me asking?"
 
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