Scene 26 - Epilogue: Reflections
Darmas Pollaran stood at his window and thought. Those he worked with sometimes accused him of spending too much time thinking about things and not enough time acting on them, but he had found that too little time thinking proved to be more problematic than too much.
Lack of thinking things through led to making mistakes, and he preferred to avoid making mistakes.
This new 'captain,' for example, was something of a delightful puzzle. Earlier that evening, she had been wearing boots, but when he'd seen her in the garden, she'd changed into sandals – the same type of sandals that the strange twi'lek had been wearing earlier. He'd seen dancers at the Den wearing similar ones. Yet she'd claimed that she hadn't actually made it back to the cantina. It was possible that she was telling the truth, but somehow the story rang hollow. And in his experience, when his gut told him that people were lying to him, they inevitably were.
Darmas was used to keeping others at arm's length – it was necessary for success both with his information contacts and when collecting gambling debts. Letting anyone get too close was dangerous.
But he could not deny that he felt an insistent pull toward the young spacer. She was obviously somewhat new to the business, but he did not think she was quite as vulnerable as she seemed to want him to believe. Her associate, Corso Riggs, was thoroughly predictable, but she herself was very much the opposite.
Whatever the outcome, he decided, it promised at the least to be quite interesting.
[Author's Note: Okay, so I *thought* I was done, but then Darmas asked for a little more screen time. Hope nobody minds too much!]