End of the Assignment

Chapter 7

Siri picked up her case, left her office, and sashayed down the hallway as confidently as she could. The door to Krayn's office was still open, and he and his bodyguard were still there, drinking and carrying on. Entering the office, she put her case down, took off her leather jacket, and then looked at Krayn meaningfully.

"I think it's about time I gave you what I promised," Siri said flirtatiously, giving Krayn a come-hither motion with her right hand.

He looked at his bodyguard and they smirked at each other.

This is not your lucky day, guys.

Krayn motioned to the bodyguard to leave the room. He did, closing the door behind him.

"You are such a fabulous woman, Zora," began Krayn.

Siri gave him a playful push towards his desk. He took off his jacket and boosted himself up to sit on it. As Siri climbed on top of him, Krayn started to murmur sweet nothings as she started to give him a neck massage.

Siri started to reach for the button on the bracelet she was wearing. It was the one Krayn had given her that contained a wire she was to put around the neck of any slave who got out of control.

Now she could feel the button. She pushed it, took a hold of the wire, and pulled it around his neck.

And Siri pounded his head into the desk. "That's for all the horrible things you made me do," she screamed at the top of her lungs. Krayn looked more pissed than she had ever seen him.

She felt his head being pounded into the desk. "And that's for all the sick things I saw and heard you do."

It then occurred to Siri that she had behaved in a very un-Jedi like manner in the hearing of the entire Council.

A Jedi shall not know anger.

Well, she'd been in trouble with them before and survived. She was used to speaking her mind. That was probably one of the reasons she'd been given this particular Trial. They wanted to test how she'd react to not being able to say whatever was on her mind.

Siri noticed that Krayn was reaching for the emergency button.

"This isn't my first day here; I cut the wire to the emergency button! Tell me how to access your server."

No response. Siri pulled harder on the wire. Krayn started to choke.

"Over there! Behind the frame."

Siri looked up and noticed the painting on the east wall. She elbowed Krayn in the face, got off of the desk, grabbed her pack, and used the Force to take down the painting. Sure enough, there was a panel with a button in the middle. Pushing the button caused the panel to flip over and reveal a computer.

Siri opened her pack, took everything out, and held the blaster in her left hand while plugging the cable into the computer with her right. She put the other end of the cable into her portable computer. After typing the command she was almost certain was the right one, Siri turned her head and said "Data transmitting."

"We've got it," came the response from the wire's receiver end.

Siri was just about to stand up and run out of the office when she felt the end of a blaster against her head.

"Don't move. Drop the blaster," Siri heard the bodyguard.

Damn! Why didn't I hear the door swish open or sense this guy in the room?

"Throw the blaster. Make him reach for it," Siri heard Master Windu say.

So she threw it to her left. While the bodyguard's attention was on the blaster and he was bent over, she put her hands on the ground and kicked back with her left leg as hard as she could. As soon as she felt her boot heel hit him, be started to tumble over, dropping his blaster. They both scrambled to their feet. Siri gave him another kick, not that it did much good as he was noticeably larger than her and he was expecting it.

Then they both stopped at the sound of a blaster cocking. Siri turned her head towards the sound to see Krayn aiming a blaster at her.

Then he fired.