Nova was lucky that Cheriss had other things to do. If it hadn’t been for urgent business regarding the disappearance of the doctor, she would have made sure that the girl received proper punishment for interrupting her in the middle of her negotiations with such an inappropriate comm call. The audacity! Despite her telling him otherwise, she’d ended up killing the Nautolan anyway because she was certain that there was no way he would have kept his mouth shut about something like that. Her reputation would have been utterly ruined, and it would have been Nova’s fault.
Fortunately for the girl, that wouldn’t be the sole focus of their meeting today. Of course, Cheriss hadn’t gotten over that whole incident just yet and vehemently loathed the prospect of seeing her again, but this was something she simply wasn’t willing to do with Kayden. She had to maintain some kind of edge over him— and so she’d begrudgingly texted her apprentice to meet her at this specific location outside the Botajef spaceport.
It was a quiet and secluded place, as far away from prying eyes and ears as one could get in a city. Its owner, an unlucky human man, was crumpled against the side of the desk she sat at. Not dead, but he would be out for quite a while and definitely wouldn’t be able to remember what had happened given the amount of alcohol he’d ingested beforehand.
Leaning back in her seat, Cheriss would wait for Nova to arrive, ready to inform her about the mission up ahead, and perhaps something a little extra. The method she would use to give her lesson would be up to the girl.
@LadyRen