Ask I’m On Holiday!

[Tresshk]

The trandoshan let his long tongue slip out of his mouth as his head arched forward, not caring to use his hands as the pointed muscle cupped the joint and brought it back to his mouth. He stared her dead in the eyes then as he breathed in and let out another puff.

“And what if it’s what I choosse? Hsssk. You’d be the first to tell me otherwise...I don’t have much of another option. We’re all made to die, anywaysss...I was made to kill, raised to kill. People cheered when I tore the throats from their other pets, they took me into their ranks. Until they threw me away. Now I’m going to go tear their throatss out...or die trying.” Tresshk snarled, his amber eyes looking like they were filled with hellfire, the eyes of a killer. She could see then that many had seen this gaze, the gaze of a killer, one that didn’t hesitate when he made it the last face they would see. But that didn’t mean her words were falling on def ears. It had been his consideration of what she said that brought this forth. Whatever personality the male had, there was clearly more underneath. Anger, pain...betrayal, a complexity he seemed to resent. He just wanted a simple life, a goal, somebody he could take out to make his problems go away. And it was clear he had someone in mind.

He suddenly pulled away from Aster, standing as he moved up, fists clenched seeming like he wanted to just hit -something-. Perhaps surprisingly the large male held back though, just breathing in the calming concoction until he slowly strayed from his pacing back to the couch, slouching down and rocking back to sit down with a bit of space between the two now.

“Heh, ya got me all riled up, sssorry about that. I’ll try not to be ssuch a monster, around you at least.” He said as he pulled her dankweed from his mouth, turning it between his two clawed hands for her as he leaned in a bit, but for once his gaze seemed sullen, and the small smile he gave her seemed forced. “I’d hate to dissappoint you...” He repeated then, his voice trying to stay in his jovial manner, but the words themselves were surprisingly genuine.

@Arclight

 

[Aster Maris]

Aster raised an eyebrow as Tresshk took the joint from her hand without moving a muscle. Or rather only one muscle. What came next was decidedly more intimidating however as her philosophizing had clearly struck a nerve in the reptilians brain. He clearly held a lot of anger in his heart as he ranted, his eyes blazing with a cruel intensity that she hadn't seen before from the lizard.

She shrunk back form his gaze but only a little, not daring to disrespect him and look away. She was dumped onto the couch with little warning and a small exclamation of surprise as Tresshk began to pace, clenching and unclenching his clawed hands. She'd stay silent, let him work out his emotions on his own and try not to draw too much of his attention while he was running hot. He seemed to keep a handle on himself however, and sat down across the table from her around the bend of the couch

"Pology accepted." She grinned impishly. She was still a little intimidated by the outburst, but glad that he was able to pull himself out of it. He still seemed sullen when he spoke however as she accepted the nearly burnt out joint from his fingers. His smile seemed less genuine than earlier and her words had clearly made him grapple with thoughts and feelings that he wasn't used to dealing with. As much as she wanted to help him work through those, perhaps now wasn't the time. She'd hate for him to disappoint her too.

"How 'bout a friendly game of sabacc, friend Tresshk?" She offered. She had given him enough to think about for now, maybe it was time to do a little less thinking before the dangerous adventure he had in mind once they got to Byblos. She would pull a stack of cards out from a drawer on the table and lay them out. "I win, ya show me more o' those tats o' yahs." She winked. She had seen the head of the space dragon that decorated his claws and couldn't help but be curious as to what the rest of the art looked like. She loved art.

@Rorren

 

[Tresshk]

Tresshk’s eyes glanced over form, noticing how she had reeled away from him, even as she maintained eye contact. It was a sight he was used to, fear and uncertainty around him, that one wrong move would have her dead. Normally he reveled in the control it gave him, but now? It almost felt like a vibroknife digging into his heart. When she changed the subject to sabacc, he gladly accepted, pulling the hand of cards she dealt out to him.

“And what if I win? Hehehessk...Maybe you take a shower, huh? Not that I mind, your sscent that is. Honesstly reminds me of Trandosha. But I’d find it funny ssseeing you all cleaned up.” Tresshk spoke, the more cocky, assured smile returning to him then as he was in a more familiar and fun environment of banter and games. If she wanted to see more of his tattoos, he may have to warn her of she won. A certain one went to more of a private area, but then again, where was the fun in telling her such before hand? Either way, he had others to sow, and perhaps she’d be willing to give him some suggestions for a new one.

@Arclight

Spoiler

We can skip forward from here.

 

[Aster Maris]

She dealt the cards out for the pair of them to play, glancing at her own hand. It was a good hand.

"Oh... Ah, ya noticed that." She said, a little embarrassed. Of course he had with his reptilian sense of smell. She flushed and hid her face behind the cards for a moment. "Ya know, spend ta long in tha void workin' on tha girl and next thin' ya know ya at port. Sometimes tha little thin's slip my mind." She didn't want to admit that she had spent most of the time too stoned out of her gourd to notice while she worked, but at least he wasn't complaining.

"Deal, but I gotta warn ya I uhh... Don' always clean up well." She said as she traded one of her cards for another from the deck. They would probably play a few games, and Aster had no problem letting the big guy win a few so they could both get what they wanted.

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Several hours later Aster emerged from the small shower chamber, dressed in her yellow flight suit that she wore for more serious excursions. None of the more comfortable casual wear that left plenty of skin showing, she was sealed away minus the big bubble helmet that fit the suit. She had been mildly disappointed that she hadn't gotten to see all of Tresshk's tattoos. She wondered if he had seen as such in her eyes when they had followed the partial show to where the snaking tattoos continued out of sight.

"One not stinky Aster present!" She said cheerfully as she emerged, doing a twirl before proceeding towards the cockpit. "I think we' gonna be droppin' out soon, ya ready fo' that adventure?" She asked as she grabbed her gunbelt out of a cabinet and strapped it to her waist. Just because she was a lover and not a fighter didn't mean she was stupid. Well, that stupid anyways. Raiding subterrainean caches was risky business and while she had the big guy to protect her, she wasn't about to wander into the mouth of danger completely defenseless. Well this time anyways, she thought as she remembered Tresshk's earlier outburst.

@Rorren

 

[Tresshk]

Tresshk tapped his shoulder as he waited in the living space, a little bored just sitting there, and soon his mind began to wander, wandering to what Aster had told him. He shook the thoughts from his mind, rolling over off the couch, starting to do some pushups on the cold floor just to keep his body busy and keep his mind from wandering. Bouncing up, he glanced around, before reaching up to some piping that ran over head, pulling himself up as he crossed his legs. He got about two reps in before on his way down, the piping went with him, the large male's eyes going wide as he fell to the ground, the pipe clanging on his head and he let out a hiss then.

"Krarking-...Uh oh. kriff, thiss isn't kriffing good at all." Tresshk muttered to himself, rubbing his scaled head as he reached out to grasp the section of pipe. This wasn't good. He reached up, starting to rifle away at the piping to fit it back into place, when he heard Aster walk out. Tresshk turned to her and quickly pulled the section behind his back as he turned to her to cover it. Oh great, this would go well.

"Yeah, you ssmell great! Er, probably sshould get up to the cockpit, right?" Tresshk said, something decently clear that it was off, even as he held her gaze and a light smile. He nodded then and stood at the center of the room, waiting for her to go by.

"I'm always ready for whatever comesss my way, never a dull moment." He added, a bit more genuine to himself then.

@Arclight

 

[Aster Maris]

Aster didn't notice Tresshk's strange behavior as she strapped on her gunbelt. Glancing over, she eyed him as he kinda stood in the middle of the room, hands behind his back.

"Glad ta hear it, don' wanna be insultin' ya nose sense any longer." She smiled as she moved to the cockpit. He was acting a little strange, but he had been acting a little strange since their conversation had taken a turn to the more serious.

Spinning into her chair she eyed the countdown. Perfect timing. Pulling the lever the ship lurched into realspace and the stars condensed down to their usual pinpoints. Out the wide open viewport she could see the planet of Byblos, much of it covered in a dense urban sprawl but also containing quite a bit of nature.

"Ayo Tresshk, come up here a minute!" She shouted from the cockpit as she pulled up a projection of the planet Byblos. The 3d image spun in front of her and she leaned back, trying to peak around the corner to see just what was taking the lizard so long.

"Hey Tresshk, where we headin'?!" Her voice echoed around the corner as she gave up trying to catch a peak after nearly slipping out of the chair, catching herself as she sent it into a spin.

@Rorren

 

[Tresshk]

"I didn't mind, but thiss, yeah, great change." He spoke as one hand came around to give a thumbs up, which seemed enough for the girl as she walked off. Tresshk gave out a sigh of relief, quickly returning himself to trying his best to fit the piping back in. It was a lucky enough stroke as they came out of lightspeed that the force of it was enough to push the right placement of the pipe into it's space, even as Tresshk had to brace himself and skid a bit across the floor. Giving a bit of a grumble, he repositioned himself under the loose part. However, hearing her call out to him, Tresshk started to scramble a bit, before finally with a snarl he just hit the kriffing thing, punching it up and and slotting it into place by some miracle. Then Aster called for him again, and the trandoshan walked around the corner towards her, both a look of annoyance and relief on his scaly face. He leaned over the console as his other hand came up and stopped her spinning chair by gripping the head rest, his strength stopping her momentum in place. He pointed forward then, his clawed finger pressing lightly onto a point of the blue light hologram, and as he pulled it back a red dot was left there by the computer.

"There, on the ssouthwest end of the mountain range with the old drive yards. I'm fairly cccertain it'ss integrated into the mountain. And if you can help it, maybe we avoid any...authoritiesss. Mama didn't raisse no sssnitch, right?" Tresshk said with a telling grin, his tongue flicking out lightly as he gave her some side eye, then stepping back from the console with a chuckle. He at least seemed to be falling back into the mood he had previously it seemed as they neared his objective.

@Arclight

 

[Aster Maris]

Her spinning came to a sudden stop as Tresshk loomed above her. Righting herself in her chair, she followed his claw to the mountain range that he pointed out. He seemed to be back to his usual self, his words flirting with the tiniest bit of a threatening tone as he mentioned avoiding the authorities.

"tha's right. Ya know us Ossien aren' exactly fond o' cops either." She said as she minimized the projection and set a course. Flipping a few switches and pressing a button, their sensor signature was scrambled. The projected image blurred for a moment as she did so but then stabilized.

"That should keep 'em off us. Scrambled the transponder so they won' see us unless they' right on top o' us." With that handled she guided the ship in, screaming across the void as they angled into the atmosphere. The viewport flared as they broke through the planets shell and then they were dragging on atmo. Bringing the Voidrunner down to the mountain range was a fast process, she was a fast ship after all.

"I'll do a few passes. Lemme know if ya see what ya lookin' for." She said as the ship streaked across the mountain range, her eyes peeled for any old tunnels or holes that might fit a skiff or speeder.

@Rorren

 

[Tresshk]

"Good girl. Y'know, if you wanted to come back to Eriadu with me, I'm sure ya'd fit right in. Besidesss, you still need to beat me in ssabacc and get me out of these clothess." He said in a somewhat offhanded offer as he watched their descent, grinning wider as it was clear the trandoshan was back to his former self with his forward humor. Tresshk took the chair behind Aster in the cockpit then, sitting back in the navigator seat that seemed entirely unused, making it clear that the young woman had been travelling by herself for some time. Tresshk let her fly down as he looked out the glass window of the front viewport, staring over the mountains. In all honesty, he didn't really know what he was looking for, he just knew it was supposed to be evident, something hiding in plain sight. He muttered to himself as they took several passes, until he suddenly pointed right at the mountainside. Something about the light had seemed very off to him and his sensitive eyes, and he was betting he knew why.

"There, fly right into the peak there. Hssk. Right through it..." The trandoshan spoke confidently, like they wouldn't just explode in a glorious fireball of instant death...

@Arclight

 

[Aster Maris]

"Eriadu huh, maybe I'll swing by an' say hi sometime." She said as she kept her eyes on the sky. She wasn't much of a joiner, didn't like to stay in one place for too long. She started missing the open void whenever she did. "Ha, ya think I need ta beat ya at sabacc ta get ya outta them clothes. I ain' that good o' a girl." She scoffed and glance back at him at that, willing to take her eyes off her flying to see if he reacted at all.

When he pointed out the peak she felt a pulling in her chest as she eyed the shadows that seemed to reflect strangely. Something just seemed... right. Steering in she flew straight at the peak, though she slowed her speed just a little. No need to turn themselves into a fireball if she was wrong.

She wasn't however. As they sped at the peak a narrow crevice appeared to them.

"Hang on!" She shouted as she rolled the Voidrunner as she jerked the yoke to dive into the opening. The ship narrowly passed through the crack in the mountain, just barely avoiding scraping at the top and bottom.

It was pitch dark in there minus the ships lights and they were moving at a fast pace. Straight down. Aster held her steady as they slipped between the tight walls.

Suddenly a sheer wall presented itself in front of them. Only the slightest shadows and a tugging in her mind indicated which way to turn. Jerking the stick as she slammed on the afterburners, the Voidrunner groaned in protest as it drifted to scrape along the wall as she brought it to its new heading.

"My baby!" Aster cried out at the scraping but kept her heading. They still had a ways to go before they got to Tresshk's loot stash... If it even existed.

@Rorren

 

[Tresshk]

"Oh iss that so? Careful, girl...You'll fill my innocccent mind with wrong ideasss...Sssk, and I'd fill you with ssomething else." Tresshk's voice seemed to sink into an even deeper, raspier tone then, a light hiss in his words with more of that trandoshan 'accent'. His eyes once again took in the sight of her rather unapologetically, and a low chuckle came from him as he turned back to watch ahead. He gave one last comment as they approached. "You ssure do clean up well, Asster."

The trandoshan's eyes lit up with excitement at the sight of rapidly approaching rocky death ahead of them, each turn narrow and dangerous, the fit tight enough that they certainly skidded across the chasm's side, the disgruntled sound of colliding metal echoing throughout the ship. Tresshk's heart was pounding with the thought of certain death, but it only put a beaming grin on his face as he sad pressed to the back of his chair and gripped into the armrests of the chair.

The chasm in the mountainous range then flew past a small encampment, the small little watching-Then when they turned the next bend, the chasm was abruptly stopped by a large, metal gateway. The top half had fallen down into it's placement while the bottom had sunk into the housing area for the thick metal sheet below, both likely falling down to their resting positions from a lack of power and upkeep. It would be a tight fit for sure, unless Aster could stop in time to properly assess the situation, but she was the one at the wheel to make the call...

@Arclight

 

[Aster Maris]

The tight and narrow passageway was a challenge that Aster needed to put almost all of her focus into navigating as she raced through it. Still there was something thrilling about Tresshk's words filtering into her mind as she chanced death, and her cheeks flushed as she piloted the narrow path.

Turning the next bend with a rapid pull up on the yoke, Aster was confronted with a sheer metal barrier. Her eyes flickered across it as death rushed at them and she moved without thinking, her body acted as if guided by something other than her own mind. Yanking the stick hard to starboard, her hand flipped to cut the engines. The ship dropped as it spun, skidding on the rough cavern floor as it fast approached the opening at the bottom of the gateway.

The ship slid through, just barely. Aster watched the Voidrunner's nose pass just inches away from the frame of the broken gateway before it continued its spin and slide. Slamming the thruster back into drive, the engine roared as it skidded to a halt, just barely stopping from smashing into the back of the interior wall.

Breathing heavily, her cheeks pink and eyes wide, she powered down the ship's engines before turning to Tresshk, trying to catch her breath.

"Well... tha' was a tight fit." She breathed a sigh of relief. Her heart pounded heavily with adrenaline and she eyed him up and down with a small glimmer of excitement in her eyes. "Not tha only thin' might be a tight fit." Her tone flush with excitement at the near death experience. And then she laughed, sinking into her chair and laughing and holding herself tight with her arms as she tried to pull it together. They still had a stash to cash after all.

@Rorren

 

[Tresshk]

The ship screeched and shuddered as the two bounced some in the seats, sparks skidding all around the outside of the ship until finally all the sudden death-defying craziness came to a halt, both just left in the cockpit together, taking it all in so suddenly...and it was Aster who broke the silence then. Her words cut right into Tresshk's earholes as his mind recapped all of the excitement, the way the girl had piloted almost inhumanly being the most apt way he could describe it. And then she just...bantered back, in a way that struck the trandoshan to his core and put some motivation into his boiling blood, despite his more literally cold-blooded anatomy. He stood from the seat then, moving in front of Aster as she was still trying to come down from it all. He gripped her by the flightsuit and lifted her up to meet his stature, her feat dangling in the air as they were face to face. Without a word then, he pulled her in and she felt his smooth-scaled lips press to her plush, fleshy ones, holding the sudden and very forward kiss as his pointed tongue teased at her mouth. However, he pulled away then as set her back down in the seat, only to lean down with her. His arms pressed to each side of her chair, pinning her into the seat as his much larger form leaned down until his face was just in front of her her, his long pointed tongue coming out and flicking over her nose in very forward play.

"I'll tell you now, unless you know a lot about uss t'doshak, you're in for a LOT if you keep this dangerouss game up, Misss Mariss. You play with fire...hsssk, and I -love- that." He told her with a purring hiss to his voice, his eyes once again staring into her own, they still possessing that seeming hellfire in them, but it was burning with another sin than murderous intent. With that he stood back up, moving into the hallway behind the cockpit, looking around the ship for any potential damages. He chuckled and rolled his eyes on his way to the locker he'd placed his things within, seeing the piping had fallen back down to the floor of the kitchen. Some of the internal lighting had been knocked out as well, and they could see through the viewport that everything was pitch black around them, no lighting along the metal passageway. Tresshk pulled his light repeated free from the locker it was in, along with his hardcase containers, checking within for his detonite charges. Smirking, he then grabbed an empty duffel bag and started walking back to the cockpit to see if Aster had made any progress on getting a hold of herself. The trandoshan had to admit...her near-death stunts and flying, and the way she spoke and bantered with him, it really did hit a special spot for him, it made him want her.

@Arclight

 

[Aster Maris]

Aster continued to laugh hysterically, the adrenaline high forcing her brain to find release from the stress in the only way it knew how at the moment. She shut up when she was suddenly face to face with Tresshk, his strong arms hauling her off the ground like she was made of feathers. Before she could process anything else, his smooth, scaled lips were pressed up against hers and his tongue played across her lips in the strangest kiss she had ever experienced.

She sat wide-eyed as he placed her back in the chair and his reptilian eyes burned in front of her, promising something other than death this time as he flicked the tip of her nose with his tongue. She remained silent, probably for the first time since they had met as he spoke, and stayed silent as he walked away.

Shocked, she raised a hand to her nose and lips, feeling the moisture there from his kiss as she sunk into her chair once again. Her mind raced alongside her heart as she tried to process what just happened. Kissed by a T'doshak. She thought to herself, acknowledging his species for the first time in her mind since they had met. She glanced towards the portal through which he had gone, holding herself with one arm and clenching her legs together as she did so.

"Get a hold o' yahself Aster." She whispered to herself as she sat up, shaking her head and turning away before taking another quick glance towards the portal. She knew he had been rather forward, crude and flirtatious, all things she could get behind. And she hadn't exactly been shy about returning the banter, had enjoyed it. She had not expected him to actually express an interest in her beyond the banter however.

Taking a deep breath she stood up, turned to walk through the portal only to bump into Tresshk and rebound off his chest.

"Oh! Ah... oops. Didn' see ya there. Ya all ready ta head outside." She glanced up at him, cheeks flushed before gesturing to the gear he now carried, a gun nearly as big as her. She really needed to get ahold of herself. Eager to go, she shifted left then right before realizing that Tresshk completely filled the frame of the portal and she couldn't go anywhere without him moving.

@Rorren

 

[Tresshk]

The huge trandoshan for his part stood there as the young spacer bounced off of him, leaving Tresshk to arch his brow as he leaned against the wall then, effectively blocking any exit for her. His grin wasn’t currently there as he just looked her over, shaking his head some before he rolled his eyes. She heard him say something, but she could tell whatever it was, it didn’t sound like basic, nor did it sound too positive.

“Get your head out of your cute asss, flygirl. It’s job time, I can’t have you foggy minded up there, okay? Now come on, I’ll do all the heavy lifting, and you can hold the light for me, alright?” Tresshk said, pulling out a rather large flashlight that had a good amount of weight to it. He held it out to her then, even as he stared at her, seeming to be able to tell the shift from her bubbly attitude.

@Arclight

 

[Aster Maris]

Aster looked up as Tresshk hissed something in a reptilian sounding language, probably 'doshi. He seemed annoyed, and his words stung a little as she realized that she was basically useless to the big guy as soon as she stepped off her ship. Hold the flashlight, like dad used to make her do when she was too weak to turn a wrench.

"Just make sure ta keep ya eyes off it." She shot back, snatching the flashlight from his hand as she ducked under his arm quickly, taking the lead in the hallway as she scooped the bubble helmet off its shelf by the door. Stretching it behind her back to capture the end of her mane, she scooped it up and brought the thing down on her head where it sealed with a hiss.

Head out of the clouds, eyes ahead. She told herself as she reached for the landing gear controls, activating them to lever the ship up off the ground. Her poor baby. Glancing at Tresshk, she probably looked like a strange lion with her dreadlocks smushed behind her head in the bubble to take the appearance of a mane. "Ya payin' for damages." She said, her tone grim. She hoped the voidhopper was okay, but the girl sure had done a lot of sliding and grinding.

@Rorren

 

[Tresshk]

Tresshk rolled his eyes but let her pass, putting fists on his hips as he turned to face her.

“Unless you got a trap in that asss of yours, I’ll be looking forward for what I-...Hsssk, we came here for. Besssidess that, I’ll look where I damn well please. Not my fault it’ss so easy on the eyess.” The trandoshan spoke sternly, except to mutter that last point as he crossed his long arms and looked away a bit. He watched the girl somewhat impressively retain her entirety of those dreadlocks into her helmet, and he couldn’t help but crack a smile at the look of Aster. That smile quickly faded when she made the ship turn and lurch to stand up proper, both wobbling some with it, and she declared he would be paying for repairs like a stern mother would.

“Tsssk. We’ll work something out. If I find what I want here, that wont be a problem in the leasst.” Tresshk muttered, a little surprised by the sudden tone she had managed to work up, but he didn’t let it throw him off enough to give into her sudden terms. The large male put a simple atmospheric control mask on and clipped the rebreather pack to his belt, right next to his holstered gun. Tresshk rolled down the sleeves of his thermal jacket, and then looked back to Aster.

“I don’t asssume you have pants my size? It’s going to be cold out there.” He mumbled with some clear dismay, as much as he tried to quash it. Frigid weather and trandoshans didn’t mix well, gigen their reptilian anatomy. Tresshk nodded towards the ramp then, to go out into the dark, into the bottom of the rather large tunnel, Tresshk waiting for the light and pointing for her to aim it at the center of the passage, where an old little access port was. Beside it, a beaten old service latter...five stories up.

“You feel like climbing, or clinging? Sssk.” Tresshk asked as he turned his head towards he and began walking his way over.

@Arclight

 

[Aster Maris]

Aster rolled her eyes as Tresshk commented about her rear. He wasn't wrong on both counts though. He seemed reluctant to pay for damages, but if the haul they found was worth what he thought it was maybe he wouldn't argue too much about it. It was his job her baby had gotten hurt on after all.

"Ya afraid ya might shrivel up in tha cold?" Aster joked as she turned the light on and pointed it into the darkness, walking down the ramp. Once on solid ground, she squatted down and swept the light under the Voidrunner who was all scraped up and jagged underneath. "My poor baby girl." She moaned in distress as she shot a glare towards Tresshk before turning the light on the access port and service ladder.

"How are we 'posed ta get anything out o' that?" She asked as they walked towards the ladder and eyed the height. Maybe she could hover the Voidrunner up on her repulsors for them to load through the airlock. She scanned the width of the room with the flashlight to gauge whether her girl would fit or not. "Ya gonna let me ride ya up?" She said as she glanced at Tresshk.

Her eyes missed the light flick over some sort of cave creature hiding in the corner.

@Rorren

 

[Tresshk]

“Don’t get me wrong, Asster, you can ride me anytime you want, Sssk...if you think you can hang on...” Tresshk spoke, grinning at the girl and he really couldn’t tell then if she had just let the words slip, or said them on purpose. However, he paused then as he flared his nostrils and breathed in, smelling something in the air. His eyes went wide and he suddenly dashed towards Aster, pulling her to his body as something lunged through the darkness with glinting yellow eyes.

It was a fyrnock that bit down with sharp teeth into the forearm that clung around the young spacer, getting between her and the pouncing creature. Tresshk gritted his teeth as a reptilian roar rumbled from his throat out of hard, uncensored pain. He then pushed Aster aside with the flashlight waving around in her hand still, unless she dropped it in the sudden ‘excitement’, catching the sound of the large feline-like killer creature. Tresshk gripped the jaw of the snarling beast, trying his damndest to pry his arm free, copious amounts of thick trandoshan blood dripping from the fyrnock’s teeth...

“C-Care...ta help, flygirl?” He managed to speak out through his hisses of pain, backing away from a swipe at his face that narrowly took his eye out.

@Arclight

 

[Aster Maris]

One second Tresshk was making an innuendo about her slip of the tongue, the next she was being jerked around and teeth were gnashing in her face. She screamed in surprise but she didn't drop the flashlight from her left hand. The fyrnock's bite that had been meant for her was currently digging deep into Tresshk's forearm.

Swinging the heavy flashlight at the creature's snout with all her might, she felt a crunch as the fyrnock opened its mouth with a screech. Her right hand reached for her blaster, fumbling with the latch as she held the flashlight ready to bash with it again, her terrified eyes glued to the Fyrnock who looked about ready to pounce again.

@Rorren