Magnet for Trouble
By Rey
Chapter summary: Kote and Ruusaan are trying to get into the roots of this situation. Trying being the keyword.
51. Clearing Up, Part 1
It takes ridiculously quite a while to free – truly free – up a room for a private meeting between the Jedi and the spouses.
And, just as the desirable state of eavesdropper-less private space has been achieved, with Kote and Ruusaan warning the children that their helmets can detect life signs very well, KK-40 signals that there is yet another intruder on the outermost perimeter of the farmland.
Not far from where Kote and their tagalongs picked up the Jedi, in fact.
And the said Jedi do look guilty-worried-apprehensive when, after instructing KK-40 to ask the purporse of the intruder in coming here in the storm and relaying the answer back, Kote asks if they were followed here or if they left their previous lodging without saying anything to their guide.
"To our best knowledge, we were not followed here," the older of the two answers, the mix of emotions even more apparent in their tone and expression, their Basic mixing oddly between some Midrim dialect and some variant of Coruscanti. "However, we indeed slipped away from our tour guide to come here."
Kote does not bother masking their irritation, even though their helmet masks their facial expression. "What – why you leave your guide? Did they hurt you or mean you harm?" Their tone is almost a demand, softened a little only because the younger of the two – the child – is cringing away from them and hunkering in, and the fact that they are still rather clunky with Basic.
It does not help that KK-40 is relaying the intruder's answer to their HUD at the same time, and the said intruder turns out to be Rix Tenau, one of the verd'e they befriended in Little Concordia, who has been exchanging commtexts with them for a different matter entirely, who also whinges about why their charges just ran away and what had they done wrong that the verd'ika'se would be so afraid of them.
The irritation only goes up when the Jedi fails to answer, only opening and closing their mouth soundlessly like a stranded fish.
"You like run away when someone kind to you?" Kote bites out. They would have said more, except that Ruusaan is squeezing their hand now, and the child – "Jon Antilles," or so the hellions claimed – is full out flinching. So they instead tell KK-40 to permit Rix entry, and excuse themself – in a rougher tone than they would, but well – from the room.
"Rix is visiting," they tell Ruusaan in-helmet even as they stalk away. "I'll ask them about these Jedi."
