Obligatory disclaimer: I don't own Star Wars or it's proprietary
characters, like Darth Vader or the Emperor. I created Kyle and Kieran
Katro, Tessa Richards, C-3P1, and the group of aliens, who Cassandra first
encounters.
Star Wars:
Cassandra's Journey
By: Myst Dragon
Chapter 3
As Cassandra enters the cockpit, the strange dream lingers in her mind. Regret is an unfamiliar emotion for the young woman, as she always did what felt right to her. Vader's emotions had been relatively calm, so she hadn't had to worry about them too much. She looked at the co-pilot seat and noted the humanoid droid that she found out about only a few hours ago.
Cassandra: rubbing her face. "How much longer 'til we get there?"
C-3P1: "It will only be a few more minutes Miss Katro. I was about to go wake you up so you could perform the landing."
Cassandra: "Thanks, and just call me Cassandra or Cass, if you prefer. I don't really like formality."
C-3P1: "As you wish, Cassandra."
The young wanderer used the time spent approaching the planet to familiarize her conscious mind with basic landing procedures for her ship, as well as selecting a spot to land.
Cassandra: "Let's land there." Pointing at a spot on the ship's holographic map.
C-3P1: "Why there? The settlement has no port and that is also too close to a Hutt's palace!"
Cassandra: "Okay, then let's land over here." She points to a spot on the opposite side of the settlement. "There's a cave large enough to hide the ship in, so we won't have to worry to much about this Hutt's men finding the ship."
C-3P1: "If I may say, you seem awfully determined to visit that settlement. Why is that?"
Cassandra: "Well, that's just the direction that the wind is blowing me in."
C-3P1: "Pardon me."
Cassandra: "It's a Wanderer saying I picked up from my father. It means, 'that's the direction I feel I should go'. The Hutt's are like gangsters, right?"
C-3P1: "Yes, and that's precisely why they should be avoided!"
Cassandra: "That's precisely why I have to go down there. There's someone down there that needs my help and I intend on giving it, so let's go!" With that settled, she sets a landing course and brings the ship down. As she reaches the surface, she takes the small ship through a ravine, narrowly missing many of the rock formations as she heads for the cave. After she sets down and turns off the engines, she notices a rattling sound beside her. "Is something loose?" She looks around to see C-3P1 shaking with his eyes dimmed, and snaps her fingers in front of his face. "Hey, you ok?"
C-3P1: eyes lighting up, glancing around "We're alive! I don't believe it! It's incredible, amazing, stupendous! Its." He promptly shuts up when he notices that Cassandra is glaring at him, with an eyebrow cocked.
Cassandra: "There's an old saying that goes like this, 'Any landing you can walk away from is a good one'! Stay here. I'll go check out that settlement."
C-3P1: "I would be most happy to do so!"
As the young wanderer leaves the craft, she grabs a cape and pulls the hood of the cut-off robe over her head. She also grabs some money that the droid had pointed out. The long walk to the settlement is tedious and the desert planet's twin suns don't make it easy. She reaches the settlement, noting the many aliens and humans bustling about the dirt streets, and heads straight for a cantina. Inside, she sees a scaly octopus-like creature playing several instruments in the crowded bar. The young Katro walks to the bar, pulling down her hood.
Barkeeper: "Whaddaya want?" he had the face of a walrus and chubby looking fingers.
Cassandra: "Ice water."
Barkeeper: "Plain or 'spiced'?"
Cassandra: pausing to contemplate what 'spiced' might be, she concludes it might be the same as 'spiked'. And answers, "Plain." Shortly after she finishes her water, she hears a young woman scream, and heads toward the sound. She finds a chubby man standing over a raven-haired woman, wearing a simple dress and a shawl.
C. Man: "You stupid girl, I told you to head straight back after you delivered the message! What took you so long?" He pulls a cat-o-nine tails from his belt and raises the many tentacled, whip to strike her with it, but is stopped by Cassandra's hand grabbing his forearm.
Cassandra: a deep seething anger apparent on her face. "What do you think you're doing?"
C. Man: "I'm teaching my slave a lesson, so mind your own business!" the young wanderer releases him, and steps back.
Cassandra: "Try doing that to me, before you attack that woman again!" The man rushes her and she simply sidesteps grabbing his right forearm, and flips him onto his back. She quickly pulls out her lightsaber and points it at his throat! "Don't you know that slavery is illeagal?"
C. Man: "No it isn't!"
Cassandra: "It is now! Surrender any control devices you have, and if I see you or anyone else with a slave from now on, you'll regret it!" The chubby slave owner hands her a small remote unit, and she destroys it with her lightsaber. As she helps the slave woman up, the former owner runs out. "Is there any device they plant on or in you?"
Woman: "They place a device under the skin. I don't know where it is though."
Cassandra: "No problem. Let's just sit at this table and I'll fix you right up!" they sit at the table the slaver had been occupying. "Give me your hand and close your eyes. Good, now I will guide you through using your chi to find the device. Do you feels that warm pulsing spot in your palm? Focus on it. Follow it as it moves through your body. Do you feel that? It's the device. Slowly pour your chi onto it, until you crush it to dust. Now you're free. Open your eyes. You can hide it my ship until I complete my mission here. What's your name?"
Ellia: "I'm Ellia. Why are you being so kind to me?"
Cassandra: "I don't like slavery, and I don't like people picking on those that can't fight back! Aside from that, I also like helping people." The young Katro smirks. "Oh yeah, my name's Cassandra Katro. Now let's grab some of you personal items, and get you to my ship." As the two women walk to the slave quarters, they are cut off and surround by ten men. Cassandra whispers to the former slave woman, "When the fighting starts get down and try to get to that corner over there."
A bald man, with a scar running down the left side of his face walks inside the circle of thugs. He appears to be slightly larger than the other men, and he holds a bar in his left hand.
Thug Leader: "You've got our bosses property! Give her back, and surrender yourself, so you can be properly punished!"
Cassandra: "Punished? I'm sorry, but I'm really not into that kind of thing." She smirks
Thug L.: "Just shut up and surrender."
Cassandra: looking slightly amused, and wishing that she still had the ability to intimidate the thugs with her chi. "I'm sure that we can reach an understanding. If you walk away now you can hold your heads high because you demonstrated intelligence. However, if you attack foolishly, some of you might not live to regret it. So, what'll it be? Will you walk away heads held high, or get your heads ground into the dirt?"
Cassandra spins, whipping her cape off and uses the Force to knock a tremendous amount of dust and dirt into the air. She activates the lightsaber and whistles to draw attention to her position! When the dust clears, the slave woman is gone. Cassandra can be seen standing calmly with lightsaber ready, and three of the thugs lying badly beaten around her.
Cassandra: "I've seen lemmings with more sense than you people!"
Thug L: "It's seven men to one woman. She can't take us all at once, so let's take her head back to Turrell!" With that command, they all charge the lone wanderer. Some of them fire a few shots at her and she deflects them using the lightsaber. One of the thugs tries to hit her from behind. She deftly brings up her right and kicks him, sending him flying back into a distant building, and making a slight impression in the wall. She quickly thrusts her left palm into the chest of another thug, with similar results, and deflects another blaster shot.
The athletic, young woman leaps to avoid a blaster to the back and it hits another thug. While in mid-air, she spins and uses the Force to send herself falling towards the man that shot at her, with the lightsaber off. The gruff man is blinded by one of the planets twin suns as he tries to shoot her, and is unable to see her until she turns the lightsaber back on the instant before she cuts him in two. Cassandra then quickly spins around kicking the jaw one of the remaining thugs, adding him to the list of disabled. She backflips to avoid another blaster shot and lands behind the shooter, quickly striking him across the back of the neck, leaving only one opponent left. The moment she had knocked down the ninth man, the leader strikes her across the back with his bar. Resisting the pain she retains control and rolls to prevent her face from being planted in the dirt. The young wanderer stands up spinning, holding her back with her left hand
Cassandra: with a confused look on her face, whispering to herself "How'd he manage that? Its like he wasn't even there 'til he hit me!" she looks at the smug look on his face. Thinking, "I could tell where his was at all times, up to a few moments, before he hit me. When I could tell where he was, I felt something familiar.. He's somehow using chi! His spirit was telling me he wasn't there, when he was. Just like its." the image she was seeing disappears, and she ducks to avoid the leader's bar as it flies by, where here head had been. She then uses the Force to add power to her leaping uppercut, sending the thug's leader roughly eight feet into the air. He is already unconscious when he lands. She places her lightsaber back on her belt, and stands over the man with her arms folded. "You might've beaten me with that trick if you hadn't been so smug!"
A few moments later Ellia slowly stood up, allowing a thick layer of sand to roll off of the cape. She looks around in awe of what the younger woman had accomplished.
Ellia: "How were you able to beat them? It's amazing!"
Cassandra: "I had been trained in one of the martial arts of Earth since I was five, so I can take on just about anyone! Let's go" They continue on to Ellia's home in the Slave Quarters, and gather some of her things into a pack. They also grabbed water, for the trip to Cassandra's ship, the Lost Soul.
Back on the ship C-3P1 has been inspecting recent repairs to see how long before permanent replacement parts will be needed.
C-3P1: "These replacements that were constructed should hold out for a few more days of normal use, but Cassandra really should obtain proper replacements before we leave the planet. I hope she hasn't run into any trouble." As if on cue the young wanderer walked up the main ramp of the ship, with the former slave woman following. "I trust things went well for you."
Cassandra: "You're far too trusting, but it wasn't anything I couldn't handle." She looks back to Ellia; "I'll show you to a place where you can sleep until I've taken care of the local slave industry" As the two women walk away, the droid notices something.
C-3P1: "You really should put some bacta on that bruise." Cassandra gives him a menacing glare and continues on to the room where Ellia will be sleeping in the meantime.
The two women walk into a spartan room with only a dresser and small bed, in the cramped space.
Cassandra: "It's not much, but it's safe."
Ellia: "Where do you sleep?"
Cassandra: "For the time being, wherever I can. The Pilot seat looks kind of comfortable right now." As the older woman is about to protest, Cassandra quickly interrupts. "It's ok. You're my guest, so don't worry. Now down to business. I figure the simplest way to force everyone to abandon slavery, would be through the Hutt. I want to scope out his palace. Does he have serving girls or does he use droids for that?"
Ellia: "Taurus mostly uses human slaves to serve things. You can borrow some of my clothes for a disguise, if you want. He also enjoys watching some of his slaves perform something called a quick-draw shootout, He discovered it from one of his human slaves." She shakes her head. "You know this is insane, don't you?"
Cassandra: smirking, "It would be boring if it wasn't! He has them shoot each other?"
Ellia: "The guns are set for stun only, but it's still disgusting of him."
The next morning Cassandra walks through the entire ship' She calls for C-3P1 to come to the second cargo room, upon a discovery of what like a motorcycle except with fins in the place of wheels.
Cassandra: "Why didn't you tell me that this swoop bike was back here?"
C-3P1: I'm sorry, but you never asked. I thought you already knew about it. Cassandra: C, for future reference; I am from an Isolated world, far away with far less advanced technology than what you're used to, so don't assume I know something without a good reason.
C-3P1: "As you wish. Do you know how to operate it?"
Cassandra: "Yes, I do. Take care of Ellia, while I'm out." A confused look comes over her face.
C-3P1: "Is there anything wrong?"
Cassandra: "Nothing, I just noticed that Vader's psyche hasn't been struggling against my consciousness."
C-3P1: "Pardon me?"
Cassandra: "Don't worry about it. I'll try to get back before nightfall. Later." She lowers the cargo room's ramp, and rides out.
Later that afternoon Cassandra has managed to sneak past the palace defenses, and is know walking the halls dressed as a serving girl, carrying a pitcher of water. She found the design of the costume to be very annoying. It was sleeveless and short, so she had to abandon her lightsaber. One feature that was actually useful would have been irritating under other circumstances. It had a hood meant to conceal the face. As she was allowed into the room where the gunmen where preparing to entertain the Hutt, she could feel the goblin-esque guard's eyes all over her body. She scanned the room as she served water to the men, some alien, some human. As she was pouring water into the cup of an a green-skinned alien, she heard a man say something in German!"
Eric: (German) "A woman like that should never be without a protector." The young woman being too annoyed to feel shock, turned around and pulled back part of her hood.
Cassandra: (Ger.) "If you got to know me, you'd find I'm quite capable of taking care of myself you piece of." she stops as she notices the surprised look on his face. "What?"
Eric: (Ger.) "You speak German! Are you from earth?" Suddenly it dawns on the young wanderer.
Cassandra: "Oh my god." Remembering to switch back to German "What's your name? How did you get here?"
Eric: (Ger.) "My names Eric Rosenburg. A group of Rodian's chanced upon Earth and took me and my father. They sold us to Taurus ten years ago. My Father gave him the Idea for this contest, by telling him stories of the American old-west."
Cassandra: (Ger.) "So where's your dad?"
Eric: (Ger.) "He was supposed to be sold two years ago, but there was a fight and he was shot."
Cassandra: (Ger.) "I'm sorry, I." she is interrupted as one of the goblin- esque guards strikes her across the back, causing her to wince. She stops Eric from doing anything and faces the guard.
Guard: "You have other slaves to serve girl!"
Cassandra: holding a hand towards him. "You will show some respect and apologize."
Guard: "I. I'm sorry ma'am."
Cassandra: "You will go sit in a corner and think of all the bad things you've done."
Guard: "I will go sit in a corner and think of all the bad things I've done." With that the guard walks away
Cassandra: turning back to Eric who looks very surprised. (Ger.)"I'm going to give the rest of these guys some water, then I'll take you to my ship. What's with the look?"
Eric: (Ger.) "How did you do that?"
Cassandra: (Ger.) "It's just a little trick I picked up." She fixes her hood and gives the rest of the slaves in the room water and returns to the German. "Ok, let's get out of here."
Eric: (Ger.) "How are we going to do that?"
Cassandra: (Ger.) "I know a side-door we can use, now come on." As they reach the door, a guard that wasn't there before stops them.
Guard: "Where do you think you're going?"
Cassandra: "We're going home. You don't need to stop us."
Guard: looking at her confused. "Do you think I'm an idiot? I'm here to stop slaves and prisoners from leaving."
Cassandra: sighing. "Guess I'll just have to do it the old fashioned way." She strikes the guard across the forehead, knocking him out and sneaks out with her new companion, after she uses his chi to destroy the slave device implanted under his skin.
Star Wars:
Cassandra's Journey
By: Myst Dragon
Chapter 3
As Cassandra enters the cockpit, the strange dream lingers in her mind. Regret is an unfamiliar emotion for the young woman, as she always did what felt right to her. Vader's emotions had been relatively calm, so she hadn't had to worry about them too much. She looked at the co-pilot seat and noted the humanoid droid that she found out about only a few hours ago.
Cassandra: rubbing her face. "How much longer 'til we get there?"
C-3P1: "It will only be a few more minutes Miss Katro. I was about to go wake you up so you could perform the landing."
Cassandra: "Thanks, and just call me Cassandra or Cass, if you prefer. I don't really like formality."
C-3P1: "As you wish, Cassandra."
The young wanderer used the time spent approaching the planet to familiarize her conscious mind with basic landing procedures for her ship, as well as selecting a spot to land.
Cassandra: "Let's land there." Pointing at a spot on the ship's holographic map.
C-3P1: "Why there? The settlement has no port and that is also too close to a Hutt's palace!"
Cassandra: "Okay, then let's land over here." She points to a spot on the opposite side of the settlement. "There's a cave large enough to hide the ship in, so we won't have to worry to much about this Hutt's men finding the ship."
C-3P1: "If I may say, you seem awfully determined to visit that settlement. Why is that?"
Cassandra: "Well, that's just the direction that the wind is blowing me in."
C-3P1: "Pardon me."
Cassandra: "It's a Wanderer saying I picked up from my father. It means, 'that's the direction I feel I should go'. The Hutt's are like gangsters, right?"
C-3P1: "Yes, and that's precisely why they should be avoided!"
Cassandra: "That's precisely why I have to go down there. There's someone down there that needs my help and I intend on giving it, so let's go!" With that settled, she sets a landing course and brings the ship down. As she reaches the surface, she takes the small ship through a ravine, narrowly missing many of the rock formations as she heads for the cave. After she sets down and turns off the engines, she notices a rattling sound beside her. "Is something loose?" She looks around to see C-3P1 shaking with his eyes dimmed, and snaps her fingers in front of his face. "Hey, you ok?"
C-3P1: eyes lighting up, glancing around "We're alive! I don't believe it! It's incredible, amazing, stupendous! Its." He promptly shuts up when he notices that Cassandra is glaring at him, with an eyebrow cocked.
Cassandra: "There's an old saying that goes like this, 'Any landing you can walk away from is a good one'! Stay here. I'll go check out that settlement."
C-3P1: "I would be most happy to do so!"
As the young wanderer leaves the craft, she grabs a cape and pulls the hood of the cut-off robe over her head. She also grabs some money that the droid had pointed out. The long walk to the settlement is tedious and the desert planet's twin suns don't make it easy. She reaches the settlement, noting the many aliens and humans bustling about the dirt streets, and heads straight for a cantina. Inside, she sees a scaly octopus-like creature playing several instruments in the crowded bar. The young Katro walks to the bar, pulling down her hood.
Barkeeper: "Whaddaya want?" he had the face of a walrus and chubby looking fingers.
Cassandra: "Ice water."
Barkeeper: "Plain or 'spiced'?"
Cassandra: pausing to contemplate what 'spiced' might be, she concludes it might be the same as 'spiked'. And answers, "Plain." Shortly after she finishes her water, she hears a young woman scream, and heads toward the sound. She finds a chubby man standing over a raven-haired woman, wearing a simple dress and a shawl.
C. Man: "You stupid girl, I told you to head straight back after you delivered the message! What took you so long?" He pulls a cat-o-nine tails from his belt and raises the many tentacled, whip to strike her with it, but is stopped by Cassandra's hand grabbing his forearm.
Cassandra: a deep seething anger apparent on her face. "What do you think you're doing?"
C. Man: "I'm teaching my slave a lesson, so mind your own business!" the young wanderer releases him, and steps back.
Cassandra: "Try doing that to me, before you attack that woman again!" The man rushes her and she simply sidesteps grabbing his right forearm, and flips him onto his back. She quickly pulls out her lightsaber and points it at his throat! "Don't you know that slavery is illeagal?"
C. Man: "No it isn't!"
Cassandra: "It is now! Surrender any control devices you have, and if I see you or anyone else with a slave from now on, you'll regret it!" The chubby slave owner hands her a small remote unit, and she destroys it with her lightsaber. As she helps the slave woman up, the former owner runs out. "Is there any device they plant on or in you?"
Woman: "They place a device under the skin. I don't know where it is though."
Cassandra: "No problem. Let's just sit at this table and I'll fix you right up!" they sit at the table the slaver had been occupying. "Give me your hand and close your eyes. Good, now I will guide you through using your chi to find the device. Do you feels that warm pulsing spot in your palm? Focus on it. Follow it as it moves through your body. Do you feel that? It's the device. Slowly pour your chi onto it, until you crush it to dust. Now you're free. Open your eyes. You can hide it my ship until I complete my mission here. What's your name?"
Ellia: "I'm Ellia. Why are you being so kind to me?"
Cassandra: "I don't like slavery, and I don't like people picking on those that can't fight back! Aside from that, I also like helping people." The young Katro smirks. "Oh yeah, my name's Cassandra Katro. Now let's grab some of you personal items, and get you to my ship." As the two women walk to the slave quarters, they are cut off and surround by ten men. Cassandra whispers to the former slave woman, "When the fighting starts get down and try to get to that corner over there."
A bald man, with a scar running down the left side of his face walks inside the circle of thugs. He appears to be slightly larger than the other men, and he holds a bar in his left hand.
Thug Leader: "You've got our bosses property! Give her back, and surrender yourself, so you can be properly punished!"
Cassandra: "Punished? I'm sorry, but I'm really not into that kind of thing." She smirks
Thug L.: "Just shut up and surrender."
Cassandra: looking slightly amused, and wishing that she still had the ability to intimidate the thugs with her chi. "I'm sure that we can reach an understanding. If you walk away now you can hold your heads high because you demonstrated intelligence. However, if you attack foolishly, some of you might not live to regret it. So, what'll it be? Will you walk away heads held high, or get your heads ground into the dirt?"
Cassandra spins, whipping her cape off and uses the Force to knock a tremendous amount of dust and dirt into the air. She activates the lightsaber and whistles to draw attention to her position! When the dust clears, the slave woman is gone. Cassandra can be seen standing calmly with lightsaber ready, and three of the thugs lying badly beaten around her.
Cassandra: "I've seen lemmings with more sense than you people!"
Thug L: "It's seven men to one woman. She can't take us all at once, so let's take her head back to Turrell!" With that command, they all charge the lone wanderer. Some of them fire a few shots at her and she deflects them using the lightsaber. One of the thugs tries to hit her from behind. She deftly brings up her right and kicks him, sending him flying back into a distant building, and making a slight impression in the wall. She quickly thrusts her left palm into the chest of another thug, with similar results, and deflects another blaster shot.
The athletic, young woman leaps to avoid a blaster to the back and it hits another thug. While in mid-air, she spins and uses the Force to send herself falling towards the man that shot at her, with the lightsaber off. The gruff man is blinded by one of the planets twin suns as he tries to shoot her, and is unable to see her until she turns the lightsaber back on the instant before she cuts him in two. Cassandra then quickly spins around kicking the jaw one of the remaining thugs, adding him to the list of disabled. She backflips to avoid another blaster shot and lands behind the shooter, quickly striking him across the back of the neck, leaving only one opponent left. The moment she had knocked down the ninth man, the leader strikes her across the back with his bar. Resisting the pain she retains control and rolls to prevent her face from being planted in the dirt. The young wanderer stands up spinning, holding her back with her left hand
Cassandra: with a confused look on her face, whispering to herself "How'd he manage that? Its like he wasn't even there 'til he hit me!" she looks at the smug look on his face. Thinking, "I could tell where his was at all times, up to a few moments, before he hit me. When I could tell where he was, I felt something familiar.. He's somehow using chi! His spirit was telling me he wasn't there, when he was. Just like its." the image she was seeing disappears, and she ducks to avoid the leader's bar as it flies by, where here head had been. She then uses the Force to add power to her leaping uppercut, sending the thug's leader roughly eight feet into the air. He is already unconscious when he lands. She places her lightsaber back on her belt, and stands over the man with her arms folded. "You might've beaten me with that trick if you hadn't been so smug!"
A few moments later Ellia slowly stood up, allowing a thick layer of sand to roll off of the cape. She looks around in awe of what the younger woman had accomplished.
Ellia: "How were you able to beat them? It's amazing!"
Cassandra: "I had been trained in one of the martial arts of Earth since I was five, so I can take on just about anyone! Let's go" They continue on to Ellia's home in the Slave Quarters, and gather some of her things into a pack. They also grabbed water, for the trip to Cassandra's ship, the Lost Soul.
Back on the ship C-3P1 has been inspecting recent repairs to see how long before permanent replacement parts will be needed.
C-3P1: "These replacements that were constructed should hold out for a few more days of normal use, but Cassandra really should obtain proper replacements before we leave the planet. I hope she hasn't run into any trouble." As if on cue the young wanderer walked up the main ramp of the ship, with the former slave woman following. "I trust things went well for you."
Cassandra: "You're far too trusting, but it wasn't anything I couldn't handle." She looks back to Ellia; "I'll show you to a place where you can sleep until I've taken care of the local slave industry" As the two women walk away, the droid notices something.
C-3P1: "You really should put some bacta on that bruise." Cassandra gives him a menacing glare and continues on to the room where Ellia will be sleeping in the meantime.
The two women walk into a spartan room with only a dresser and small bed, in the cramped space.
Cassandra: "It's not much, but it's safe."
Ellia: "Where do you sleep?"
Cassandra: "For the time being, wherever I can. The Pilot seat looks kind of comfortable right now." As the older woman is about to protest, Cassandra quickly interrupts. "It's ok. You're my guest, so don't worry. Now down to business. I figure the simplest way to force everyone to abandon slavery, would be through the Hutt. I want to scope out his palace. Does he have serving girls or does he use droids for that?"
Ellia: "Taurus mostly uses human slaves to serve things. You can borrow some of my clothes for a disguise, if you want. He also enjoys watching some of his slaves perform something called a quick-draw shootout, He discovered it from one of his human slaves." She shakes her head. "You know this is insane, don't you?"
Cassandra: smirking, "It would be boring if it wasn't! He has them shoot each other?"
Ellia: "The guns are set for stun only, but it's still disgusting of him."
The next morning Cassandra walks through the entire ship' She calls for C-3P1 to come to the second cargo room, upon a discovery of what like a motorcycle except with fins in the place of wheels.
Cassandra: "Why didn't you tell me that this swoop bike was back here?"
C-3P1: I'm sorry, but you never asked. I thought you already knew about it. Cassandra: C, for future reference; I am from an Isolated world, far away with far less advanced technology than what you're used to, so don't assume I know something without a good reason.
C-3P1: "As you wish. Do you know how to operate it?"
Cassandra: "Yes, I do. Take care of Ellia, while I'm out." A confused look comes over her face.
C-3P1: "Is there anything wrong?"
Cassandra: "Nothing, I just noticed that Vader's psyche hasn't been struggling against my consciousness."
C-3P1: "Pardon me?"
Cassandra: "Don't worry about it. I'll try to get back before nightfall. Later." She lowers the cargo room's ramp, and rides out.
Later that afternoon Cassandra has managed to sneak past the palace defenses, and is know walking the halls dressed as a serving girl, carrying a pitcher of water. She found the design of the costume to be very annoying. It was sleeveless and short, so she had to abandon her lightsaber. One feature that was actually useful would have been irritating under other circumstances. It had a hood meant to conceal the face. As she was allowed into the room where the gunmen where preparing to entertain the Hutt, she could feel the goblin-esque guard's eyes all over her body. She scanned the room as she served water to the men, some alien, some human. As she was pouring water into the cup of an a green-skinned alien, she heard a man say something in German!"
Eric: (German) "A woman like that should never be without a protector." The young woman being too annoyed to feel shock, turned around and pulled back part of her hood.
Cassandra: (Ger.) "If you got to know me, you'd find I'm quite capable of taking care of myself you piece of." she stops as she notices the surprised look on his face. "What?"
Eric: (Ger.) "You speak German! Are you from earth?" Suddenly it dawns on the young wanderer.
Cassandra: "Oh my god." Remembering to switch back to German "What's your name? How did you get here?"
Eric: (Ger.) "My names Eric Rosenburg. A group of Rodian's chanced upon Earth and took me and my father. They sold us to Taurus ten years ago. My Father gave him the Idea for this contest, by telling him stories of the American old-west."
Cassandra: (Ger.) "So where's your dad?"
Eric: (Ger.) "He was supposed to be sold two years ago, but there was a fight and he was shot."
Cassandra: (Ger.) "I'm sorry, I." she is interrupted as one of the goblin- esque guards strikes her across the back, causing her to wince. She stops Eric from doing anything and faces the guard.
Guard: "You have other slaves to serve girl!"
Cassandra: holding a hand towards him. "You will show some respect and apologize."
Guard: "I. I'm sorry ma'am."
Cassandra: "You will go sit in a corner and think of all the bad things you've done."
Guard: "I will go sit in a corner and think of all the bad things I've done." With that the guard walks away
Cassandra: turning back to Eric who looks very surprised. (Ger.)"I'm going to give the rest of these guys some water, then I'll take you to my ship. What's with the look?"
Eric: (Ger.) "How did you do that?"
Cassandra: (Ger.) "It's just a little trick I picked up." She fixes her hood and gives the rest of the slaves in the room water and returns to the German. "Ok, let's get out of here."
Eric: (Ger.) "How are we going to do that?"
Cassandra: (Ger.) "I know a side-door we can use, now come on." As they reach the door, a guard that wasn't there before stops them.
Guard: "Where do you think you're going?"
Cassandra: "We're going home. You don't need to stop us."
Guard: looking at her confused. "Do you think I'm an idiot? I'm here to stop slaves and prisoners from leaving."
Cassandra: sighing. "Guess I'll just have to do it the old fashioned way." She strikes the guard across the forehead, knocking him out and sneaks out with her new companion, after she uses his chi to destroy the slave device implanted under his skin.