Ask Never Take 'No' For An Answer

[Laila Din]

"YOU STAY SAFE NOW! YA HEAR ME BOY? DON'T GO GETTIN' YERSELF INTO TROUBLE!" Ma's shouts of love rang out after Khalid even after her son had disappeared into his ship. Pa's goodbye to his son had been much more- well, Pa. A pat on the back and a reminder to put a ring on it before he put a baby in it. "Ma's heart is gettin' older now, so don't go testin' it."

When the ship took off the two turned around and went back inside, none the wiser that their youngest daughter had slipped past all three of them.

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"Aw, what do you mean you have to leave? You just GOT HERE!" Laila, upon hearing that her brother would be leaving that day, was not happy about it. She never got to see him ever! How was it fair that he could just up and leave without even considering her feelings? "LIIIIIIID! Pleeeeeeeease?" Unfortunately, Laila's pleas did little to persuade someone who had somewhere else to be. So, in a huff, Laila had retreated to her room.

Or so everyone thought.

Almost as quickly as she'd slammed her door shut, the tiefilng girl immediately began shoving things into her backpack. A change of clothes. Her Wan-Shen ("Never go without it!" - Ma). Her phone, of course, and her favorite pair of sunglasses couldn't be forgotten either. Laila kicked off her house slippers and quickly tied her boots on. Her convor, Minty, could sense her urgency and began to excitedly hoot and chirp as if he would be joining her.

"Minty! Shhh!" she hushed, hurrying over to his cage and quickly dropping a fistful of feed into his bowl. She squinted at his water - it was fine - then gave the mint-green bird a scratch on the forehead. "I'll be back, I promise," she whispered to him before she made a beeline for her balcony. She grabbed her escape rope, then slowly rappeled down to the ground below. 'Operation Stowaway... BEGIN!'

The hardest part of getting onto her big brother's ship was just getting past the guards without being seen by them. She knew their rotations pretty well by now, so as soon as she saw an opportunity... 'Run run run!'

Laila scurried up the ship's waiting ramp, drifting around the corner and into the vessel. She stopped to catch her breath, and then to quickly look for the best place to hide. The vents were too dusty, but she found a little corner in the storage room that was perfectly her-sized. Two boxes were the perfect width apart, and a third one covered the gap on top. The tiefling girl squeezed in, careful to be mindful of her horns. Giddy, she pulled her legs up to her chest to wait for her brother, intent on surprising him as soon as the ship left the atmosphere. But he was taking longer than she expected, and before long... she fell asleep.

She was up pretty late last night.

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[Khalid Din]

Khalid's usual routine whenever he left home in order to go back to normal went about as expected: Ma had asked him to stay safe, which just was not going to happen but the Tiefling had no choice but to tell her yes: His father was a lot more calm about it, telling him the usual stuff, the Tiefling simply smiled back, knowing that, as often as he fucked up in many ways, putting a bun in someone's oven was certainly not something he would get to doing any time soon.

However, there would be yet another obstacle between him and the stars, a smaller, pinker Tiefling begging him to stay. Truth be told, those puppy eyes were pretty convincing for the most part, and he did feel bad about the fact that he came to the castle less and less often, even if he had his reasons for it, mainly the amount of freedom that he had anywhere besides there, acting proper was just something he never liked to do.

"Sorry La-la, got important bussiness ta attend to" He said, the promise of credits being half the reason he had decided to leave, a big bounty had appeared in a planet not too far away from Eiattu, and the Tiefling couldn't help but be drawn to it "But I'll try ta come sooner this time, 'kay?" Khalid would say, placing a hand on Laila's head and ruffling her hair, it was something he truly meant...But it was also something he had told her many times before.

Eventually, Khalid would take off, unaware of Laila as she had also managed to dodge both him and his droids. They would be traveling through the stars for just a few hours, the destination being a planet that once belonged to the sith and even the Empire: Eriadu.

Eriadu had some history, a planet that had close ties to both the sith and the syndicates before the former betrayed the later, it still had some nasty people in there, one in particular the Tiefling had to take care of "About 15000 credits, give or take" Khalid said as he talked to his droids "Yeah-I know it ain't as big a bounty as the last one, Tim, but it ain't bad either, okay?" He would say, his eyes then darting towards the other droid as it started to beep agressively "Get off ma back, Jim, I don't care if that one's much higher, I ain't gonna go for that job just after the last one!"

Khalid couldn't help but let out a sigh, sure, that job had been the one that had paid him the most yet, but...he couldn't help but think about their faces, those cries had haunted his dreams for the last few days now. "I just wanna stop bad guys today, it's more relaxing, y'know?" The droids, who were usually sassy pieces of scrap, kept silent for once as Khalid stood up, realizing that something about the last job had him really bothered "So, stay quiet and keep watch, I'll be back soon." And so, the Tiefling would exit the ship as it was time to get to work.

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[Laila Din]

After who knows how long, Laila woke up to the sound of talking in the other room. She groaned, uncomfortable by the pain in her neck from her awkward sleeping position, and reluctantly opened her eyes. For a moment, she was confused and slightly panicked. 'Where am I?' Before she sheepishly remembered her daring escape into her brother's ship. 'Oh... right.'

Carefully Laila crawled out of her little hiding space in the storage room, ducking under the boxes and emerging on the other side. She listened again to her brother, still hearing the muffled sounds of talking. 'Who's he talkin' to?' Was there someone else on the ship? Or was he talking to his droids?

Laila left her pack behind, bringing only her NalPhone and her Wan-Shen with her as she snuck out of the storage room. She could see a couple of droids up ahead. She'd have to sneak past them... 'Time for ultra stealth mode!'

Thankfully, despite being a very noticeable shade of pink, Laila had some experience sneaking about. She was handicapped from the start with stuff like this being so bright and colorful - especially with her long and pointy horns - so she'd gotten extra good at slinking about. Using her Matukai training to aid her, Laila channeled the Force into her limbs in the only way she knew how to muffle the sound of her steps. She stuck close to the walls, going from completely still to a full-on dash the moment she knew the droids weren't looking. A few minutes later she broke free of the ship, running onto solid ground and ducking out of the droid's line-of-sight.

"Okay... now where did Lid go?"

roll to sneak: nat 20 ヾ(•ω•`)o
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