"You have got to be joking." Fox was looking at Thire as if his vod had lost his mind.
Thire was sitting on a cot in the prisoner area after being found in an alleyway outside a gambling club. He was holding ice over a developing black eye, "You asked why I went. I told you."
Speaking as if he couldn't believe his words, "A Senator wants you to go to the ball as a friend, and you were gambling to try and get the credits for an outfit." Fox looked at his vod, "Are you sure she wasn't just bribing you?"
Thire straghtened, "Lyni isn't like that Fox."
Looking at his brothers stony face, "Okay vod." Looking at the cell door, "I can get you off this time, but you can't keep going down there."
Nodding, "I know, thanks vod." Thire and Fox left the cell and headed back to the barracks so that Thire could get some real medical attention and change back into his armour.
Little did they know that a few systems away a monologue had started the same way.
Senators Lyni and Churchi were on a mission to negotiate peace between Zabraks and the Pandorians who wanted to colonize their planet. It was a muddy swamp in the middle band with ice at the two poles which was the obvious solution to the problem once the Zabraks were found. Churchis aid Ilonia Fari was complaining that it was too hot.
Savage rolled his eyes. He was carrying a trunk strapped across his back and his traditional spear which was given to him as part of his adulthood ceremony in his hands. This would show the other Zabraks who to deal with as a warrior.
The small annoying Pandorian woman stopped, "I can't believe this smell! This evil swam, and the mud is so…" what was going to finish the sentence was cut off in a shrek. Chuchi quickly turned to see that Savage had shifted the trunk to his right shoulder and had hauled Fari over his left. Fari had recovered, "Put me down!"
Only as Fari was slapping his back and shoulders that she realized that he was shirtless. And that his toned back was inches from her face. Goddess. He carried her across the largest and deepest bog before setting her down on solid ground on the other side. Bluntly, "There, your over it."
He set down the trunk and gained his spear from Lyni who was crossing the bog herself. As Savage lifted Curchi with an arm around her waist careful to hold her up with just his arm and not his large hand. Then Lyni broke the silence as she twirled and laughed, "Isn't this glorious?"
Savage had gently set down Senator Churhci and pulled the trunk back over his shoulders, "Yes little one." It was the closest the two Pandorians had ever seen him come to having a smile, with the way his face softened. Then he was business again, "The next clearing is where we should wait for the Zabrak party."
Lyni smiled, "Okay brother." She quickly led the way, slipping though the brush as if she had been born to it. Well, she had. Senator Churchi followed and Savage motioned for Fari to go next. She squeaked before she hurried after her friend, and Savage rolled his eyes before taking up his place in the rear.