It's Mine Now Pt.1

[Lilith (8th TL)]

Ryloth. The planet Cait assumed Ti Ti was from. While she'd never ask, she did wonder what it was like to live and grow up on this planet. Part of her felt angered that someone might've hurt her girls here, but that was a stray unnecessary thought. Cait needed to focus on the task at hand; she was here to either make a business deal or kill a man. Maybe not by herself, though. While she was a trained Sith, it was always smarter to hire help and throw them into the fray, though this situation wasn't the kind where you could go in headlong.

Before she got off the ship, she started to gather the Force and grabbed one of her small virboknives, shoving it up her left hands sleeve. Her outfit wasn't built to hold a knife or anything special, so she would have to consciously hold it up there with a balled fist. This wasn't a planned way to kill the man, but more self-defense than anything. Maybe they'd sit down close together for some drinks, and he'd try something funny. Though it wasn't like she didn't consider using it offensively; she'd just have to wait and see how things played out.

She'd brought Ti Ti with her and a hired merc for a body guard, in case things turned bloody. Cait had herd this mine owner was a bit of a horndog, so she wondered if he could be manipulated; though, probably not since he was a successful businessman.

Stepping into the private room they planned to meet in, the young businesswomen finally laid eyes on the human man, smiling warmly at him and curtsying somewhat towards him. "Mr.Arcane, I assume?" she inquired as she stood back up properly.

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[Sunverkh Jhess]

Sunverkh had actually never visited Ryloth before even though he had spent most of his life in the Outer Rim, while he had met quite a few Twi'leks, none of them hesitated when they left their home planet, and the Trandoshan understood why, seeing the miserable conditions they were in, however, now he also understood the potential of the planet, perhaps he would settle there in the future in order to start his own plans...who knew?

It wasn't time to think about all of that stuff, of course, he was there to work as a bodyguard, which was a nice change of pace after losing his best friend when he captured Aks-Ree, the job was simple enough, protect Cait and maybe beat up the guy they were about to extortionate, the job also paid well and would maybe put in in good terms with the Lusty Leku once he started his own "bussiness".

So, the Trandoshan bounty hunter entered the room alongside the two women, Sunverkh was wearing his bounty hunter armor and brought with him his two blaster pistols holstered in his hip and the vibro-sword in the back, being allowed to not hide his weapons since he was the bodyguard and towering over most, if not everyone, in the room, looking as menacing as one would expect. The Trandoshan would stand next to Cait, his eyes focused on both Mr. Arcane and whatever guards he brought alongside him, while they would probably see that Sunverkh was looking at them, they weren't able to see the intensity of his gaze and his unsettling smile, the Trandoshan knew well how this could go, and expected to fully enjoy it

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[The Storyteller]

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Mr Josayah Arcane.

That wasn't actually his name - not the one his whore of a mother had given him anyway. His mother had named him Dax and no one really knew if they had a surname. Rather than keep it however, he had fashioned himself a new name rather than stick to using the one he was born with. After all, who had ever heard of a famous and successful businessman named Dax?

Nobody, that's right!

But Mr Arcane? Now THAT was a name of a successful, powerful and confident business man! That was the kind of name that you had when you got kark tonnes of xeno and human puss and that was the kind of name that got you some gods damned respect in the Galaxy!

Now he might still be building up to all of that but Arcane was happy enough with the pace he had set so far. Seeing the lovely, luscious, owner of the Lusty Lekku in person, Arcane stood from his chair behind his desk and spread his arms wide.

"Cait Aislinn!" He declared as he came on over to her and wrapped her up in a tight hug - and his hands were straying rather low on her back already, "A pleasure!"

His two guards, male twi'leks, stood in the back corners of the room, both of them visibly armed with the same kind of blaster rifles that all those nasty little rebels were running around with these days and they were watching Cait's companion with barely disguised distrust.

Made sense since his race was a slaver race.

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[Lilith (8th TL)]

Well... this was convenient. He had come close already, which made Cait decide to speed things along. Where his hands landed too pretty much sealed the deal. If she was ever going to hesitate, it wouldn't be against a man who thought he could get away with that on her.

After he finished wrapping his arms around her, she unballed her hand so she could use her knife and stabbed it upwards on an angle through his ribs, so that it would hopefully hit his heart and part of a lung. Since both of his guards were focused on her bodyguard, and he would be against her and not looking at her hand, the stab would likely be unnoticeable right away, unexpected and deadly.

The moment she finished the stab she was ready to react to anything else that she needed to, and snarled, "Kill them!"

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[Sunverkh Jhess]

Sunverkh looked in surprise at how...personal the young bussiness man was getting with Cait, The Trandoshan felt disgusted by how unprofessional Mr Arcane was, it was a good thing Cait wanted to dispose of him as soon as she got the chance, he was not fit for this cold, harsh world anyways.

Since Sunverkh was already looking at where Arcane was putting his hands on and the stabbing was more visible from his point of view, he could notice the woman stabbing the man much quicker than the other two bodyguards possibly could, and knew what that meant.

Before Cait even had the chance to tell him to shoot at the guards, the Trandoshan already started acting on his own. Sunverkh had his hands on his weapons since the start of the meeting because the bodyguard had to be ready if anything happened, he would quickly draw the two blaster pistols and shoot twice at each guard from his hip, the blasters were easy to manouver and drawing them would take almost no time, not only that, but, while thlse bodyguards didn't trust the lizard, there was possibly no way that they would anticipate such a sudden attack, point at him and then shoot at him before Sunverkh did the same thing, the lizard was probably faster anyways, so in equal footing he would have probably shot first as well, so, with advantage, it was almost decided.

 

[The Storyteller]

Josayah Arcane never really had a chance.

He had expected some kind of underhanded tactics but, quite honestly, he had expected them to come in the form of words or something similar. For the woman to immediately shank him hadn't really crossed his mind and he felt suddenly rather foolish for not having her shot for coming through his door.

"You witch!"

He grabbed her throat, squeezing even as he began to feel his blood flowing freely. He wasn't sure what she had cut into. If he was able to tell it was his lung, it wouldn't have mattered either way. His hand squeezed her throat with all the strength of a desperate, dying, man despite his wounds.

Despite Sunverkh's quick draw skills, the guards had their rifles already in their hands as guards without weapons in hand were rather pointless.

They were each able to fire off a bolt at the man from the hip before he could finish firing, firing a shot at his chest from each side while he was in the middle of shooting them back. The two of them would be too slow to dodge the shots but that wouldn't stop the fact that two guards, with rifles already in hand, had shot at a man who was attempting to draw two pistols at the same time and accurately fire in two different directions.

Sunverkh would have to deal with the face that he was without cover and now facing two racing blaster bolts.

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[Sunverkh Jhess]

Sunverkh shot at the two guards quick enough to take them down, but not quick enough to not be punished as well. The two blaster bolts would hit him squarely in the chest, there was no avoiding that, they were too close to each other to try and dodge those bolts, that was the reason why he simply shot instead of going into cover, however, however, while those twi'leks Mr Arcane hired were as good as dead since they weren't dressed in proper armor, the Trandoshan bounty hunter was wearing his set of armor which protected the chest area, those two shots would really hurt, that was no doubt, one was enough to cause some degree of damage against an armored target and two was enough to knock Sunverkh out, the Trandoshan would fall on his back and lose consciousness, totally out of combat, but still alive.

But at least he took out the main danger, Arcane had already a blade inside of him and Cait was more than capable of finishing him off.

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[Lilith (8th TL)]

She stared Arcane deadpan in the eyes, a coldness settling in between them that even she could feel. And if she didn't know better, she could've sworn her breath could be seen floating in the air. Yet for all it's bitterness, the tiny pinpricks of pain all over her body from the cold, the fear of it getting even colder, it was somehow intoxicating. It made her want... more of whatever she was feeling. She didn't care about what he'd called her. She didn't care about the grip around her neck. She only cared for the darkness that gathered around her in the moment, before the light went out in his eyes.

But when the man slumped over dead she shook her head, and felt a tinge of regret before turning around to gauge her surroundings. The guards were dead. Good. But then her eyes settled on her bodyguard; he'd taken a few shots. Cait dropped to her knees in front of him with an angered look, placing her hands on his chest.

"Dammit," she muttered, realizing she had put him in a bad spot. It was a flaw—one that haunted her—but she cared for the people who worked for her. Her girls were precious to her, and she'd kill for them. Kill every last person that ever hurt them. And even if this was his first job for her, he was successful in protecting her and had taken out two men on his own.

She tapped the side of her helmet and her voice crackled through the comm, "Ti, we have a medical emergency here." She looked over her merc. "Bring men, and while you're here I need to you find the deed and anything else I need to know." Cait looked around for a moment. "The console is right by me."

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