Boys fall over head over heals for Rosetta

Chapter 4: Dinner and Afterwards


At the dinner table Rosetta starts to feel her back and somehow it has become irritated.

"I guess tonight is not a night to shower," she thinks.

She pays no attention to her back as she eats her dinner.

"Rosetta, you said something about a scar before Mary came in," Cain states. "Can you elaborate on it?"

"Cain, I don't think it is an appropriate discussion for the dinner table," Rosetta replies.

"So?"

"Cain, as much as I love to discus it right now but I don't want anyone to lose their appetite."

"Not for me."

"What about Mary?"

"I'll be fine," she adds.

"Well, it is actually a burn scar that is seven years old and has never healed. It has a peculiar shape to it."

"What shape is it?"

"It's a flame. It grew with me making it the size of my whole back. It has a protective layering on it and if it is touched roughly it will break. It goes through a cycle of getting a new protective layering on it every so often but when it just finished healing any touch can make it break. And any time it is touched or in the process of getting a new one it bleeds."

"So your scar is very delicate?"

"Yes, just because I am the Great Jedi. It will never heal completely."

"How do you protect it?"

"Very carefully if I fight alone or have allies that fight with me"

"Okay, can we get on a different discussion?" Mary states. "If I hear any more of this I think I will be sick."

They eat their dinner and afterwards Mary leaves Cain and Rosetta alone again.

"Rosetta, are you okay?" Cain inquires.

"For now I'll be fine. My scar is irritating me though. So soon the layer is just going to fall off. But it's not what I can handle," Rosetta replies. "And I won't be taking a shower anytime soon."

Cain laughs and turns back to her.

"So you take care of bandaging your back?"

"When I'm alone yes but if I'm with someone mostly a girl or a droid they wrap me up."

"How?"

"Through the force, it works."

"I guess it does. Rosetta, were you the only one in your family?"

"Yes, I was. I always wished for a little brother or a sister but I never got one."

Cain looks at Rosetta and smiles. She smiles back and she gets her com-link out of her utility belt and it starts to ring.

"You know when it is going to ring?" Cain asks.

"Most of the time," she replies.

She turns it on and Han's voice comes through the com-link.

"Rose, where are you?" he asks.

"I'm with Earl Cain Hargreaves. Why?" she replies.

"Brakiss came where I am stay earlier and he tried to get the head to join him but he refused. We think that he is posing as something at the place you are staying. If I were you I'd keep a look out for anything suspicious. Oh and the leader here is very disturbed about what might befall you."

"I get it, Han. Thanks for the update. Contact me if you get anymore news on Brakiss and I'll try to keep in touch if anything were to happen."

"Over and out."

You shut off your com-link and Cain looks at you.

"Who's Han?"

"Han is an elder friend that I have he is very concerned about me when it comes to Brakiss but he isn't my legal guardian."

"Who's your legal guardian?"

"Luke Skywalker, the one that assigned us together."

Rosetta and Cain talk for a little while and then Rosetta decides to take a bath. After her bath when she was drying up her protective layering falls off.

"Huh, has it been bugging me earlier and I didn't realize it?" she thinks.

Riff comes in and looks at her and gets bandages and bandages Rosetta up.

"Thanks Riff," she states.

"No problem," he replies. "I heard your conversations at dinner about your scar."

You get in your pajamas and fall asleep.