Vizan eyed the pirate's antiqued vessel, as it lined up the portal to theirs. The doors opened into the tunnel. The pirate's new captain and first mate, sat on a descent pair of chairs with a anti-gravity tavolo in front of them. A gruff voice echoed from the rough facial garb. "Come we meet here. That way we are all in danger. No one I believe is fully prepared to meet their maker. Just yet." Vizan slipped his twin a thoughtful look. Jorg slowly smiled appreciating the cleverness of such an opponent. Nodding they went forward, to sit themselves across from the two females. This would prove to be a most interesting meeting.
morgan sat between the two jedi each one filling her head with all kinds of non-sense. Sometimes though she caught glimpses of what they were describing. Almost as if she'd seen it somewhere before. Then it would fade as thinking caused her pain and a desire to sleep. Yet they would not let her. " Tracker it's been più then 2 days . I need to sleep." The siti grumbled.
"No, not until your head is set to rights. I do not trust that te will wake once te have let go of consciousness."
morgan folded her arms across her chest. "Well then how about you? I could hear both these jedi sawing logs while te kept cheating at chess. Pretty bad when te have to cheat against a blind woman." Manni paled, they'd taken to sleeping down in the hold to escape the feelings that pressured all around them. It was impossible. He looked at Steai who'd been thinking the same thoughts. As if sensing their mood she put a hand on each of theirs.
"Take it easy, my other senses just kicked in to make up for my sight. No big deal." Tracker shook his head, but it was. Perhaps another change was coming o it was just a defense mechanism. Something to watch.
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"Unfortunate but necessary." King Vizla detto staring down at his cousin's burnt body. Terra had reluctantly dato over the ashes of another force user to pass off as Prince Jorg's. " Yes these will do nicely. Thank -you my love. Remind me never to get on your bad side." He detto while he liberated the box of ashes from her hands.
Terra slid her warm body successivo to his. Her cuore flowing with Amore as he caressed her cheek.
"How can te ever get on my bad side? te have dato me such gifts. The promise of us in th future. Of being High King and queen, our child and an academy dedicated to eradicating Jedi from every system known to have them. I am truly blessed." Vizla smiled softly.
" Just as I am. Come let us be gone, while my droids prepare to properly and honorably send my cousin's final remains to their parents. " Vizla's blue gray eyes twinkled in mirth as he spirited away his mistress to their rooms.
" That is preposterous. It can not be. He's our cousin, he's blood. He maybe waging civil war against us, but to do so da such means. It's unthinkable. For Sith's sake he's a Mandalorian prince!" Vizan slammed his fist down on the tavolo as the two females ended their presentation of the facts. The two looked to Jorg waiting for his own reaction. The vids were true, but still hardly digestible. To have hired assassins to kill them. To have left the honor of true battle behind., was to dishonor one's self. Which no true Mandalorian prince would do. The captain held up her gloved hand. "He is prince, but not Crown prince. What would he truly gain, da taking te out?" Jorg thought for a moment. " He would destabilize our city. Our father is più hated then he is feared. Even da us. With us eliminated the hope of a sensible monarchy would be gone. Leaving only few options left. Open rebellion o total anarchy. Leaving the city weakened and ripe for the picking."
Fie nodded. "That is true enough, add that to the already precarious fact that the siege is starving not only the common folk but the soldiers inside the fortifications. It may already be too late."
Vizan shook his head. "No we have stores of supplies left. With the rationing we were doing it can last another six months."
Zorri folded her arms and narrowed her eyes.
"And te are certain they have not been compromised da Vizla's spies? Not tempered with to immobilize the city?" Jorg nodded. The captain was smart. "Only a trusted few know where the stores are. Not even I know where they are. Tell us why have te decided to side with us now? Why not hold us for ransom o kill us out right? Why meet with us?" Zorri removed her face garb that was disguising her voice.
"Well te seemed like nice boys, but I could be wrong. Fie what do te think? Let them hang here o help them out. All for hmm.... how about a little out of the way planet. Called Pira. "
"She's alive isn't she." Jorg jerked Zorri up to his face, which got him a blaster's nose up against his gut while Fie pressed a coltello against Vizan's jugular. "Put me down o you'll never know that answer. " Jorg relaxed little da little. morgan was alive, but all was not well.
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Odessa eyed the guard that came for her.
"Surely it is not time yet." The guard bowed and shook his head. "No my lady. He is being occupied with the business of war." Odessa breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at the guard with più interest." te are new to the post are te not?" The man smiled. " Yes my lady. Fresh from training." Odessa laught as she saw his nervousness. He stiffened his back. She sobered.
"Forgive me, but usually new faces are not my lot . Please come and sit with me." He hesitated.
"Please do not make me make it an order." She detto holding out her hand and looking up at him with sad and lonely eyes. He did what he was told. "Tell me young man. Who are you?" The soldier swallowed hard. " No one of any true importance o concern." Odessa stood up incensed. " So that's how he has made the people feel. I may not be as youthful nor beautiful as I once was. Nor am I allowed to partake in the rightful duties of as active queen. But all my subjects are of great importance, even you." Darrel felt his cuore lighten and thrill at his queen's words. So much so that he took to kneeling at her feet and baciare the hem of her dress. Odessa touched his bright blond hair, and the guard kissed her hand. "Come, help me."
"With my very life." But Odessa gently shook her head no. "Help me to thwart his plans." Darrel paled he understood fully now what she wanted from him. " It will mean our lives. Your majesty."
He stood looking down at her beautiful face, his body already burning to hold her in his embrace.
" I know what I am asking is too much. But I cannot bare to think of that animal pawing at me.
Please let us share but a moment in time, so I may have a vision of beauty to mask his ugliness." Her tears of pleading making him take up her hand. " Then let us not waste it with talk."
With that Odessa lead her lover into the most dense part of her garden.
High King Valin very calmly replied to the man's image on the screen. " te cannot mean to leave my side. We have been allies for più then 20 yrs." His calmness a cover for how close to the edge of sanity he truly was. The man on the screen shook his head. " If the Queen can not conceive a rightful heir within the successivo 3 months, consider my support withdrawn. Then Valin I will be coming for my soiled sister. My father must have been 1/2 out of his mind to believe your lies. She would have been better off exiled."
Valin finally snarled and countered.
"If she does not conceive. I will end her miserable excuse of a life, if te abandon me."
Attler gasped at his audacity. "Even te are not to rash as to commit such a heinous crime that even the council would have to meet out justice for." Valin sneered. " They are nothing but a bunch of old decrepit women. Who would be better off knitting sweaters for the monks on Hoth. I do not fear them." Prince Attler frowned deeply." Then te are a bigger fool then I thought. te have 3 months starting today, to hold onto your crown. If King Vizla doesn't take us down before that."
Odessa laid her head on her lover's chest. Never had she enjoyed such a mating till now. Darrel slid his hands deep into her golden tresses.
" I am your man and te are my woman. I will find a way to save you." She had never been made so honest a pledge. She had never felt so loved da another living being. Staring down into his beloved face she said. " Call me Odessa."
Darrel rolled her, murmuring her name over and over.
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"That betraying mutt of a sewer worm !" King Vizla roared. " They didn't buy our ruse?" Terra detto coming swiftly into the room at his outrage.
Vizla waved a dismissive hand. " No just the opposite, but he's been dato 3 months to foster another heir on his queen. Attler doesn't believe he will be able to, but I find the unbelieving to be proved wrong on many occasions. Anything from your contacts?" Terra shook her head. "It seems the Changeling was far from dead. She tore through 11 men and then the captain. I'm interested in meeting her." Vizla agreed he was as well but first thing first. " May I remind te that te are carrying out child. A beast such as she will not hesitate to cut te down." Terra snorted.
" Then te haven't read much on the female changeling's, they are più apt to protect me then slay me. te on the other hand could be seen as a threat." Vizla scratched at the stubble on his cheeks. " Why not grow it out? It would make te look più distinguished instead of like some child." Vizan shifted his shoulders." I'd look too much like my father then. People would remember the rumors. I do not need them remembering."