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[Luke Skywalker (Ossanlin)]

((*grin*  Oh, he's a purebred AKC Siberian Husky.    I spent a bunch of time with the pups on Saturday and he gave me a few licks and nibbled my nose, sort of stole my heart.  I get him in five weeks, he's only three weeks old right now.  It's only a month but it's gonna seem like a long time...))

*Ossanlin breathes deeply as the Hunter backs off.  A brand new ship would not come cheaply or without questions asked by the Electorate...he was going through elaborate pains to try and resolve this conflict with peace, but peace was always worth the price if violence could be avoided.*  <You honor me Asmodee...they are not truly members of the military, only a group of friends.  Orders are not their strong point.  They care for my life as well as those of Temrash and Jagill, and Myitt has been known to be trigger-happy in the past.  Again I apologize.>

*Ossanlin watches as the hunter and yeerk make their way back to the bar together.  He raises an eyebrow as they begin talking like old friends.  He looks over to Myitt and Corliss.*  <Are you two okay?  Looks like a nasty bump Cor...though I have to say you couldn't have been too surprised after firing on him...he was not threatening us, not yet anyway.>  *Ossanlin continues to watch them both as they enter the clearing, both limping as far as he could tell.*

*Suddenly he hears Alic's thought-speak shout in his mind.*  <<Yes, I'm here Alic.  It seems peace might yet prevail today.>>  *he fell in with the brother and sister as they started making their way back to the bar in the wake of the yeerk and hunter.*  <<I'm sorry for speaking so harshly.  I lost my temper.  I hope that you can forgive me.>>

[Kit Cloudkicker]

Shal watches the exchanges silently from a band of trees. When she sees her friends making their way back to the bar she begins to follow them, staying a short distance behind. When Breekan enters the bar Keirdan shoots him a dirty look. "Did you forget something?" the child asks.

[Alic]

Alic was relieved to see all her friends were alright and turned to walk beside them to walk back to the bar. She didn't know whether or not Ossanlin was sincere, and nodded in response without looking at him.
As she entered the bar, she shot the yeerk and hunter a dirty look. No matter what anyone else thought, she wasn't going to trust them. She had a small fight with the hunter not too long ago, and he hork bajir had tried to smash her head in. Alic hoped their stay wouldn't be long.

[Gaz]

Gaz pulled a few more coins out of her pocket and motioned to the bartender for another rum.

As she did, she side-glanced those who had just walked in and sat.

[Breekan1]

Breekan sticks his tongue out at Keirdan and blows a raspberry. "You know, most big brothers wouldn't even let you eat ice cream for dinner. You should be having broccoli, or cornhusks, or whatever it is that human children are supposed to eat." He leaps softly to the floor to kneel near Keirdan and Gaz. He offers Gaz his hand to shake. "Thanks for keeping an eye on him when it looked like things were on fire- my name's Breekan1."

[Gaz]

Gaz accepts the handshake. "Name's Gaz," she replied, "and it's been no trouble. We've been getting along just fine, eh kid?"

[Chad32]

"So back to business. Temrash, you and your Andalite friend Ossy, as well as anyone else can come with me to help retrieve a stolen object from the Skrit Na for the Hawjabrans. If you win, I'll burn my contract with you and leave you alone. if you lose, then that will be one less problem for me."

"How nice. I'll bet you'd love for both parties to wind up killing each other, so you can take both bounties at once."

"Kill two swalketts with one blaster? Never crossed my mind!"

"I'm sure. I've dealt with skrit Na before. They are opportunistic cowards. Corner one, and they'll do whatever you want them to."

"Ah, but this one is notoriously hard to corner."

[Kit Cloudkicker]

Keirdan stares at Breekan. "Where is my sister? Did you lose her again? And what's a huban? Gaz said i can be a pirate on her ship. I want more ice cream. I told Gaz i can shoot the bad guys with my eyes. I can tell her about that right? You said not to tell the bad guys but she's not a bad guy shes a girl pirate."

[Gaz]

"Your secret's safe with me, kid," Gaz said.

[Breekan1]

Breekan looks over his shoulder. "Sis? You mean Shal? I thought she followed-" Breekan's gaze snaps back to Keirdan. "Waitwaitwait, I said what? About what?"

[Chad32]

"He shoots laser beams out of his eyes? And you were insistant in not taking him?" Temrash said, eavesdropping on the conversation.

"That would be a dangerous staring contest." Asmodee said, as he payed for his drink and took a few gulps.

[Alic]

 Alic focuses on Temrash and glares again, this time not taking her eyes off him. She was never fond of children but to put one.. Of any kind... Into danger was unthinkable.
<For some reason, Yeerk, my friends decided to help you today. I don't know why.> She held her chin up and walked towards their table, then leaned in when she placed her hands down on top.
<Are you so selfish to ask a child to fight? Watch yourself, Temrash. You don't want to make me angry for a second time, and you really don't want to upset the boys siblings. >
Alic's nostrils flared in anger. She was hoping he might try something, if he starts a fight its not her fault.

[Chad32]

"Um...alright." Temrash said tentatively (sp?).

"You're a horrible person, Temrash. Children should never be allowed on the battlefield. I mean, just look at this one. Prime example, this girl."

"I'm trying not to start anymore fights, here."

"I can see that. But the boy smells pre-adolescent, if I'm not mistaken. Too young, even if he can kill with a look."

[Alic]

Alic's tail twitched but she kept it low. She had a temper but she would not let it control her actions this time. <I may be young,> she started, then starting grinning, <But I could have your head flying.> She paused, considered doing it now and shook it off. She walked to th bar, shaking just slightly from adrenaline. Stopping herself wasn't difficult, but it wasn't any fun either.

[Myitt]

((Yeah I run away for two seconds and I miss a kajillion things! XD  Awww Luke, puppy!  Squeee.  I can't wait for you to get him, either.  He sounds really sweet.))

"Hey, buddy," Tara growls, taking a step forward, "who the hell are you calling frail?"

<Now isn't the time,> Myitt cautions.  <We've caused enough trouble.>

The two siblings follow the crew back to the bar.  Corliss looks over at Ossanlin, trying to clear his face of blood.  "Ugh.  We're fine, I think, Ossanlin.  It was an accident.  Do you think we'd normally be so foolish?"  He smiles wanly.  "Anyway, what's done is done, and at least now we have some cause to discuss things with this bounty hunter on even grounds."

"Yeah, and we've pissed him off by several more orders of magnitude," Myitt grumbles, stuffing one good hand in her jacket pocket and holding the bandaged one close.  Her boots go from squishing dead leaves to crunching through the gravelly parking lot.

They walk most of the rest of the way in silence, but back in the bar, Myitt settles down near the hunter and Temrash.  She overhears the tail end of their conversation about the Hawjabran article.  "What's your name, hunter?  I'm Myitt One-Nine-Five, the jerk who shot your ship.  This is my brother Corliss.  Don't expect me to start groveling, I just want us to be on the level.  If you expect us to help you, in order to free Temrash--who, by the way, I had no connection to prior to coming here these last couple of days--you'd better not be laying a badly planned trap.  We haven't stayed alive this long by being stupid.  Reckless, perhaps, but not idiots."

Corliss sits down next them, glancing over at Gaz.  He didn't recognize her, but then, he didn't come here as often as his sibling.  "What're you, then?" He sounds like the love child of Paul McCartney and Dave Lister.  "Some kind of pirate?"