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She paused, a strain of conversation hitting her heightened hearing from a group heading into the back of the restaurant. She quickly cast a few Force techniques over herself, muffling her steps and covering herself in a notice-me-not as Harry and Mistress Lily had put it, though the Jedi simply called it Force Cloak. Zule had used the Jedi version, and felt it was better if you were on the move and especially moving quickly or in a crowd, but Mistress Lily's version was better if you had to be silent and were sneaking around. With the two techniques covering her Zule moved quickly in the direction of the voices, pausing next to the door and enhancing her hearing further.
"The next shipment will be here in two days! If the Peregrine isn't prepared to move on its way, we'll have to immediately turn the shipment back. Didn't you hear? There are two Jedi on the planet! They will ruin everything, they always do, and I won't take the fall from them or the higher ups for your incompetence."
"Calm yourssself," said a noticeably reptilian voice. It sounded odd to Zule's ears beyond the sibilant hiss, metallic almost, grating. "Your backers will be able to send the rest of the shipment on as long as we get our cut. The Peregrine will be ready before their ship arrives, and you'll be able to transship the load immediately at our facility. The local Skynet operators are still in our pocket, never fear."
"You've already had your cut. You had your cut last month." The first voice again, only this time, the heat it had contained was gone, replaced by cold anger. "This is a fiscal operation Kruger, it isn't just to feed your own habit. If you can't keep control you're of no use to our employers. And if you start skimming off the top, we'll cut you off entirely."
There was a sound of several people moving quickly, and a thrumming noise Zule realized was the sound of several blaster rifles being powered up as one. "I do not think sssso," said the metallic reptilian voice. "We will have our sssshare of every sssshipment that comes through Jago, or you will be sent to your higher-upssss in piecesssss."
"This, you…." The first voice stuttered now, its anger overcome by shock. "You can't think you'll get away with this! You don't know who you're screwing with!?"
"We have a very good idea. Perhaps it is you who does not know who you are dealing with. Your higher upssss seem to not undersssstand they need ussss jusssst assss much as we now need XGrim. They need to learn thissss, and you will deliver this messsssage. But, we don't need your guardssss to deliver said message, and I'm getting peckisssh. Boysss?"
Zule paused, her hands dropping down to her side, where two lightsabers sat, hidden in a pair of pouches she covered every morning with a specific notice-me-not, one of the spells she had been able to modify far more than the rest of the clan. The lightsabers were both shotos, short swords with blue blades. The crystals inside them came from a crystal cave master Giiett had taken her and Aayla to when they had advanced to the point of creating their own lightsabers.
He had been on the rotation to oversee such, but Zule had her doubts about that. She felt his taking them personally like that had been his way of thanking them for teaching him the Shield spell which had saved his life against the Yinchorri a bare few weeks before. Her crystals had been normal for the most part, though somewhat more perfect in their natural state than most. Aayla's had not been, they looked normal and they were physically perfect, with no flaw in them. But when they were used to power her lightsabers, they showed an extremely odd light purple color.
Again my thoughts go to Aayla! I definitely will have to meditate on her after this mission is over. And possibly get in touch with Harry too if I can. If Aayla is in danger, he needs to know.
That her own Master and most of the Jedi Order would look askance at that very idea one of their number would need to be informed of danger to another was something that Zule thought and dismissed within a millisecond. There were just some things that were more important than the Orders rather silly rules.
But speaking of them, Zule thought, activating lightsabers. What would my two friends do in this situation? She thought about that for a few moments, as the' discussion' inside the room went on, then pulled out her twin lightsabers from their pouch, activating them quickly and slicing the door into pieces before racing inside, her earlier techniques fading quickly overcome by her movement. She hastily through one hand forward, a shield going on around the three individuals at one end of the room, as several Deshloni fired on them before pausing in shock when her Force Shield took the blaster bolts.
Zule shouted aloud "don't fire! It won't be able to…" A bare millisecond later she groaned as one of the security guards ignored her shouting and fired from inside the shield. The bolts bounced as she knew it would have from the inside, the Clan had tested that one out while on the Explorer, killing him and his partner and wounding their principle.
Behind her she felt Master Glaive arrived, but she was already too busy, her lightsabers flashing into a modified Shien defense, battering the blaster bolts all around her back towards her attackers. Then Zule halted in place, reaching out with the Force wrenching at half of them, hurling them backwards as hard as she could. They fell broken and bleeding, and then her Master was there, cutting down three of them in quick succession, his lightsaber's green plasma blade burning straight through them without any effort. The fight went out of the others at that, and they tried to run past the Jedi or surrender.
"Good work," Glaive said grudgingly as they looked around the remains of the room, spotting a Deshloni hiding behind a desk to one side of the room. The Deshlon in question had a missing jaw replaced by crude cybernetics.
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