Not How You Imagined?

[Herrith]

Herrith buzzed the buzzer on an apartment building's turbolift, straightening her hair to a reasonable style and sighing in slight impatience.

Some guy needed a job done. She wasn't complaining. The paycheck was sure to be high.

After all, the surface of Coruscant was reserved for rich people. She'd gotten the message in the middle of sleeping aboard her ship in the middle of space. Just relaxing. With Booster Blue.

Speaking of which. The Zeltron licked her teeth. Probably hadn't cleaned them in a while. Oh well. Her pheromones hopefully would keep that at bay.

So she sat there, waiting in the elevator for her client to let her in and catching a faintly noticeable scent of familiarity coming from the other end.

@AlbinoLEPRECHAN

 

[AlbinoLEPRECHAN]

Dessiv sat at a small table on the inside of his rented apartment. Sitting there, his right foot resting on his left knee, he sighed. Flicking at his side cape of his formal gold attire, he cringed at the sight.

"It's going to take weeks to dry clean this filth out."

The Zeltron simply hated being in a run down area. Not that his apartment was run down by any means. It just simply lacked the Zeltron's taste in Luster and Fine arts.

When the buzzer came echoing throughout the small room, Siv pressed a button in his wrist computer and stood up to his full height. Poised and propped, a smile his lips came. The type of sly and cunning smile, that of a true "business man."

With the tap of his wrist computer, the door would slide open with a relative hiss. There Siv would have already been relaxing small amounts of pheromones to ease tentions and help keep moods light. However, he wasn't prepared for what he saw when the doors came open.

Another Zeltron, and quite pleasing to the eyes as well, Des thought to himself. His contacts never mentioned the carrier, only that they were reliable.

"Well now, this meeting has already proven to be a delight!" The smile remaining on his lips, as he beckoned the woman inside.

@Herrith Hendarsin

 

[Herrith]

Herrith's eyes brightened as the door opened, in an attempt to look more friendly. But then her vision adjusted to the bright lighting and she nearly vomited in disgust. A Zeltron.

A Zeltron.

Herrith wrinkled her nose in revulsion and stepped inside, just enough thst the door behind her could slide shut. She bared her teeth in what fools would take for a smile, then bit her cheek.

The stench of pheromones, Zeltron pheromones, lingered in the room, full of positive emotions. She herself was so angry that she had to mute her pheromones to keep the other one from turning into an angry Zeltron. And nobody liked angry Zeltrons.

"Well now, this meeting has already proven to be a delight!"

For you, maybe. She'd seen his 'watchful' eyes just fine.

"Keep your eyes up here and I'll consider talking. The feeling, in this case, is not mutual."

Herrith stepped farther into the room, doing her best to ignore her disgust and hate.

 

[AlbinoLEPRECHAN]

It wasn't long until Siv got a read on the woman. The smile she put on for him, almost seemed as if it were just an act, and not the good kind he thought to himself. Needless to say, from her words alone, Siv noticed she had wasn't quite fond of him in the least bit.

It did nothing to bring his mood down in the least bit. In fact, he nearly pushed his pheromones to keep with the same emotions, as he applied just a bit more. It was no doubt that the woman can pick up on what the man was doing, but as a business man such as himself, Siv made sure he had a reason for all his actions.

Siv simply nodded to her, and spoke once more. His calm and even tone.

"Forgive me, I didn't mean to stare." His smile never left his lips.

"I just wasn't told that anyone such as your self was to be meeting me." While he spoke, the red haired man flamboyantly flicked his hair around his shoulders to stretch down his back. Turning around, and walking towards the 'kitchen' area.

He reached towards the counter, where two glasses sat, cupping them in his right hand, he began to pour a rather dark pink liquid into the glasses with his left hand.

"I'm sure you just want to get right down to business, but I never start, unless I have a drink with my associates first." Continuing to talk, he strode across the room, back towards the woman. With elegance and a major sense of pride and self worth, Siv set one of the glasses down on a table towards the left side of the room, from the front door when facing in. He kept the other in his right hand, and took a seat across the table from where he set the glass down.

He knew she wouldn't take the drink, she didn't seem like she would indulge with someone she didn't know, however, given her choices, who could know what she would do.

While taking a drink, rather slowly too, he introduced himself.

"My name is Dessiv. I do hope you are as good as my contacts say you are."

 

[Herrith]

Herrith shook her head slightly as he pushed out more pheromones to keep his mood up. She resisted the urge to scoff. Credits were credits.

However, if he wanted to play that game, her pheromones would have flushed out the entire apartment. Which was bad.

"Forgive me, I didn't mean to stare. I just wasn't told that anyone such as your self was to be meeting me."

"Oh, so I'm a celebrity now?"

She sat down as he went to get a drink she hadn't seen in quite some time.

"I'm sure you just want to get right down to business, but I never start, unless I have a drink with my associates first."

"You read me correctly."

She grabbed the glass and looked at it, watching as he sipped from his and then downed hers in a sip. Herrith flicked hair out of her eyes and watched as he spoke.

"My name is Dessiv. I do hope you are as good as my contacts say you are."

She smiled and replied.

What contacts? She didn't know that many rich people. "Now you're doubting me? Make up your mind, before I paint you pink. Name's Bastila Shan, Jedi master. Just kidding. It's Herrith."

Herrith crossed her arms and scratched the long surgical scar on her head.

 

[AlbinoLEPRECHAN]

Siv chuckled at the woman. Finding out triggers to someone's emotions, was always something he loved to do. However it took the man by surprise how quickly she took the drink. If he wanted to poison her, she would have walked right into that one. However, Siv also noted that Zeltron's do have the ability of connecting with anothers mind. Surely she wasn't able to do that on him, with out him knowing?

"Oh, you misunderstand. I was just remarking on you being a Zeltron, of course." He took another sip of his drink, while offering the woman the bottle if she wanted more.

Setting his drink down, after draining three-quarters of the liquid, he let his smile go and pulled out a data pad. Tapping on it a few times, he looked back to the woman.

"Pink would probably suit me well, so long as my hair remains it's natural hue please." He simply chuckled before speaking again.

"Now then, I'm sure you don't want to exchanged names, so let's get down to it." Sliding the data pad across the table to the woman, Siv folded his hands on his lap, while his right leg found it's perch over his left. Leaning back against the chair he spoke out.

"Those are coordinates to where you will pick up the cargo, and where you will go to deliver. No need to talk with anyone, or sign anything. Once you arrive, there will be people waiting for the arrival and delivery."

The smile fading from the man's lips, as he watched the woman for her next action. What he figured he knew about her, he was finding out she was more brash and unpredictable than any other Zeltron, or woman, for that matter.

 

[Herrith]

"Oh you misunderstand..I was remarking on you being a Zeltron, of course."

"And that's a good thing?"

She trusted the man wasn't crazy enough to poison her. Zeltrons were too nice to do that. He'd be depressed for a month if he'd killed her, she was sure.

As the man talked about his skin tone, she scoffed.
"Listen, I get the whole businessman get-up you're going for here."

She leaned closer to the table.
"It doesn't work. Also, I did tell you my name. Herrith."

The man began talking about the job, and she shrugged once he finished. She lifted up the pad and nodded.
"I'll do it. Anything else you wanted before I leave?"

Herrith rose an eyebrow.

 

[AlbinoLEPRECHAN]

Siv took a heavy sigh, and closed his eyes. Seems there's no changing the mood, and this is just how it's going to be.

"Very well, I won't bore you with the usual routine, or charm. Truth is, I've never been very sly anyways. Least not to other Zeltrons."

Sitting straight in his chair, he placed both elbows on the table and rested his hands on each arm, crossing them together. Letting both feet sit firmly on the ground, he spoke once more. The tone however changed. Into more serious and firm.

"I won't bore you with the details of what exactly you are hauling, seems you don't quite mind anyways. But I must insist on this particular escort not be one on any books."

 

[Herrith]

"Very well, I won't bore you with the usual routine, or charm. Truth is, I've never been very sly anyways. Least not to other Zeltrons."

That much was clear. Or was he playing the sympathy game now? She'd have to admit, he was a little more difficult to read than the average guy. But she wouldn't say that.

"I won't bore you with the details of what exactly you are hauling, seems you don't quite mind anyways. But I must insist on this particular escort not be one on any books."

"Mister, none of my escorts are on the books," Herrith smiled, "it's why I'm sitting here now."

She stood up and straightened her jacket, some brands on her neck clearly visible for a moment, then crossed her arms.

"That all?"