A Normal Day on Nar Shaddaa (Jenna Templar)

[Skylar Ichor]

Skylar Ichor, known to some (mostly no one) as Goldenrod, walked among the scumbags, pilots, bounty hunters, and mercenaries that walked on her home planet of Nar Shaddaa, scanning them to pinpoint her next pickpocketing victim.

Finding her victim, a young woman just minding her own business, she started to make her way towards the lady, ready to 'earn' a few more credits before the day ended. She had the costume of a kitchen worker on, and a basket of fruit she was actually taking home, and a big hat hiding what hair she had.

[Member="Jenna Templar"]

 

[Tanalth]

Nar Shaddar was one of the last places Jenna wanted to be. Usually you wound't find a woman like her in a place like this, but she had been here on business. She'd recently just helped take down a ery dangerous gang leader who'd crossed the Omega Protectorate while trying to keep this whole event behind closed doors; an all-out assult and search for one man in the midst of the Hutt controlled space obvioulsy something the OP was opposed to. The deed itself had been done but Jenna had to wait until the credit transer was through, along with info on her mext mission.

She'd been given two datachips, one with her payment and one with the classifed intel on her next target for her assignment. What Jenna hated, and mentioned to herself out loud, was how they looked the same; blaming the heads of her agency for not thinking into color-coding. Still a job was done and another was set and Jenna was on her way out of the safe house she'd stayed at and on her way to the shuttle port. And really she was glad to be out of this place.

Her purse hung around her right arm as she walked onward, wearing her usual turtleneck sweater dress with her kne highs. She also wore a large pair of sunglasses on her eyes to keep herself a little less obvious. As she walked on she was casually humming a catchy tune called "Heartbeats of a Gungan" while walking. Her senses not as alert as usual.

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[Skylar Ichor]

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Skylar closed in on her victim, secretly getting out a pair of scissors to cut the purse strap with, or to defend herself from unexpected attacks. As she came up behind the lady she heard the tune she was humming and almost started to hum too, but caught herself before she could and silently relieved the lady of her purse, while bumping into her and making a few apologies.

 

[Tanalth]

The sudden nudge from the side made Jenna realize a kitchen lady had bumped into her. Of course she did not notice at first what had really happened, only a little peeved at the fact. "How about rubbing the flour out of your eyes." she called, annoyed. It wasn't until her hand fell on her hip that she double-checked and realized that her purse was gone. Upon looking foward she could see the girl who'd bumped into her huddling it in her arms, the only words escaping her lips were "Of you've got to be poodooing me!" After that she picked up her pace and yelled "Hey! Come back with my bag!"

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[Skylar Ichor]

Skylar swore when she heard the lady gaining on her. She shook herself out of the costume underneath which were her normal clothes, pulled the hoodie's hood up, and turned her gallop into a full on sprint for her home, the abandoned apartment building at the end of this street. Of course she still had the basket of fruit with her, no way would she lose tonight's dinner to one spotter, as she called them.

Skylar slowed down when she was very close to her building, and when she thought she had lost the lady pursuing her, she slipped through one of the doors, ran up three flights of stairs and into the first door on the right. Congratulating herself on a successful escape and another perfect day.

"The Goldenrod strikes again!" She laughed and munched on a piece of the fruit while going through the things she had relieved the citizens of Nar Shaddaa of, wallets, purses, spare credits, anything she could get her hands on, all covered by a small cloth separating the fruit from the bottom of the basket.

Skylar went through the wallets first taking any credit chips and outer world money from them, then she moved onto the smaller purses, putting the money into the inner pocket of her knapsack.

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[Tanalth]

Jenna was trying to keep up with the little theif, calling for her to stop while running after her as fast as possible. It was hard, given her high-heeled boots, and the fact she didn't have time to throw them off in the hopes of chasing bare feet; not that she'd want to with how dirty these streets were. Eventually she turned a corner she'd seen the girl, who revealed herself as more of a theif after throwing her clothes off, only to find she was gone.

"Crap..." she said while trying to catch her breath. After a moment she looked to a nearby street bum, a zebrak, and confonted him with "Girl in a hoody with a basket. Where'd she go?"

The old alien gave a dirty toothed laugh and said "Don't know what you mean. But I could tell you for a..." his sentenced stopped when Jenna pulled a blaster out and pointed it right at his nose. With a big gulp he pointed out "Bulding at the end."

"See?" she said as she pulled the blaster away. "I pays to be nicer, and not just a creepy old homless guy."

Now knowing where she was Jenna hurried to the abandoned apartment bulding before sneaking her way in. She was careful, pulling out her blaster in case of any suprises. No telling where she was but Jenna was quite as she went from room to room, slowly proceeding up the stairs, while listening for any hints as to where she was.

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[Skylar Ichor]

Skylar was halfway through the purses when she froze, hearing movement downstairs, the opening and closing of doors. Realizing it was the lady she had just pickpocketed. "Some people just won't give up, will they?" She grabbed her knapsack and everything else and stuffed them in one of the closets, taking her knife with her.

"Time to see what this lady wants." Skylar slipped out of her room quietly and tiptoed down the stairs, just as the lady came out of one of the rooms. Pointing the knife at the woman, Skylar asked her a blunt question, "Who are you, what do you want, and why are you traipsing in my territory?"

[member="Jenna Templar"]

 

[Tanalth]

Hearing movement Jenna had tensed before exiting the room, only to see the theif herself pointing at knife at her. She gave her a bemused look before asking "Really?" then pointing her blaster at her, indicating she had the upper hand. In response to her questions Jenna had answered "First: a woman you really shouldn't have stolen from. Second: everything you took from me. And Third:.....actually I think that covers it all." she said to herself. After that she demanded "You've got five second to hand over my things before you have another hole in your head. And news flash, it won't be for you nose, mouth or eyes."

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[Skylar Ichor]

Skylar actually felt a twinge of fear at the gun the lady was holding, she didn't like the thought of being dead, and threw her knife up so it stuck in the ceiling. "Okay! Okay! What's a kid have do to get some credits around here without getting kidnapped. You'll get your purse back, lady, but no funny business, or you can forget the purse." She backed up slowly, then dashed up the stairs.

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[Tanalth]

"Good." Jenna said, a hand going to her hip. "Because I don't-Hey!" she said, seeing her dash up the steps. "Come back here!" She withdrew her blaster and chased after [member="Skylar Ichor"] up to whatever room she was hiding in. "You're one to talk about not making any funny business when you're on the run!" she called, trying to find her.

 

[Skylar Ichor]

Skylar came out of her room with the purse, and froze at the sight of the gun. Not taking her eyes off of the gun, she tossed the purse to the lady. "There's the purse, now can you take the blaster away?" Skylar's gray eyes were actually half filled with terror, she had a fear of being trapped, and this lady was making her feel that way, trapped.

[member="Jenna Templar"]

 

[Tanalth]

Catching it with one hand Jenna had the purse before checking it, trying to make sure the datachips, both of them, were inside. Upon confirming it she closed it before keeping her blaster trained on [member="Skylar Ichor"]. "Now then, I'm not done with you. First I want to know how you managed to pocket this off of me. It takes a lot to let anything slip by. That's some impressive talent you've got, missy."

 

[Skylar Ichor]

Skylar felt the panic rising and gulped some air down before she could start hyperventilating. "Look lady, you just wanted the purse, you got the purse. I don't need to tell anyone how I steal stuff, and please put the gun away. I can't take it anymore." She started to hyperventilate, "I have to get out. Let me out please." Skylar backed up again, and tripped over a piece of ceiling debris, falling down, now at the mercy of the woman before her. (If you're freaked out is just a bad mix of claustrophobia and whatever the fear of cages is)

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[Tanalth]

Seeing how desperate and panicing the girl was Jenna caved in and said "Alright." holding her gun up in her palm before slowly putting it away in the purse. "See? All gone." She gave [member="Skylar Ichor"] a minute to calm down before asking "Now look, I just want to talk. Who are you and why are you going around pickpocketing people? With skills like yours you could be putting them to better use."

 

[Skylar Ichor]

Skylar calmed down a lot more one the gun was away, and replied to the lady, "One, just call me Goldenrod. Two, you would pickpocket too if that's all you've ever done from birth, and three, it's the only thing I'm good at." The 17-year-old said nothing else, not wanting to give too much of her background to this stranger.

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[Tanalth]

"Okay then 'Goldenrod'." she said before hearing out the rest of her explanation. She nodded and crossed her arms before saying "Guess you've done pretty well at learning how to hide. What about the times you've been caught?" She smirked before adding "Come on. Even the best of experts had to slip up once or twice before getting where they were. Even I missed a few shots now-and-then. So?"

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[Skylar Ichor]

"Well this is the second time I've slip- Wait a second, you better not be interrogating me." She looked up accusingly.

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[Tanalth]

She waved it off saying "No, no. Not interrogation. I put the blaster away. Remember?" she kept a smirk on her face before asking "Where's your family, Goldrod? Is that who you're stealing for? Tyring to look out for your silbings or your parents?"

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[Skylar Ichor]

Skylar suddenly became even more quiet then before when the family subject came up, looking solemn. Finally after what would seem an unbearable silence, Skylar spoke in a small, quiet voice.

"Whatever parents birthed me, never wanted me. I was raised by a street gang until my first slip up, then they kicked me out. Been living here ever since." She drew her knees up and rested her chin on them. "Something a lot of other street kids like me know."

[member="Jenna Templar"]

 

[Tanalth]

A remorseful look went over Jenna's face. There was something familiar about this girl, something she'd seen in herself when she was younger. The only difference was that her parents had cared about having her around. That didn't change the fact that in different circumstances she might have wound up the same as 'Goldenrod'. Trying to make her feel better Jenna walked over and sat down next to her, putting her knees up as well while resting her purse next to her.

"I had to fight to surive too." she began. "I stole from people and hid away just like you. But my parents were the ones who taught me everything. I didn't have the experience of learning on my own." She then looked towards her before saying "We can't chose our parents. But we can chose how where our lives will go. As long as you realize you have a choice." At that she reached in and held up one of the datachips. "This one has money on it. The other was....private info."

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