Black Sun Representatives
[member="Karisa"] [member="Malicar"] [member="Gad Calgaran"] [member="Myra"]
Agents of Chaos Representatives
[member="Scherezade deWinter"] [member="Kamyrin Gyvolis"] [member="Nyree Justice"]
And in the abandoned town they met, a few Agents of Chaos representatives with a few Black Sun representatives. Scherezade paused herself, her glowing green gaze following [member="Malicar"] carefully as he moved to greet and speak with her peers first, noting a few details about them each before turning to her. She was not accustomed to being one to have her hand kissed and blinked in surprise. Perhaps, she had expected that even though he had done it with Kam and Nyr, she would be skipped. That used to be how it always was, before she joined up with the Agents. But no longer.
While [member="Malicar"] knew who each of them was, she couldn’t genuinely say she knew the same. Oh, she knew briefly of who was what and such, she hadn't exactly come unprepared to this meeting, but while Malicar spoke of reading reports about her, she had not about him… Or the Chiss. As they had not opted to get nearer to the Southern Systems, their cases were not handled by her, even during her time with the Ministry of Secrets. Scherezade had been the leading hands-on person to send at the time, doing missions that were mostly closed range.
Still, she gave him a proud nod, the predatory gaze hard to miss. Her mind was already running fast, calculating the different ways to leave this place a corpse town if things went wrong. But she was a patient killer, and she would not provoke the meeting into going wrong. That would go against everything she, Discordia, the other two, and the Agents of Chaos wanted and needed.
As she was motioned to the refreshments and drinks, she spotted…
Cheese cubes! That had to be a good omen or something. But no, she smiled and shook her head. No need to pour her a drink. Water was just fine.
Looking at Nyree's reaction, Scherezade grinned. She could think of several places where the girl's age, bubbliness, and excitement, would've caused those around her to snub their nose at her, look down at her. But not here. Not with the Agents of Chaos. There were things that Scherezade had been through, had been sorely punched about, so that she would alter and change. It would never happen again, not from a place in which she was among the leaders, not as long as she had any say about it. But she
did need better armor, even as a non-combatant. Scherezade made a mental note to discuss it with her after the meeting.
Nodding her head in respect and greeting at [member="Karisa"], Scherezade looked at the blue woman perhaps a touch more intently than she'd intended to. In more ways than one, today was Scherezade's first time in meeting those who belonged to the Chiss – meeting them and not, fighting them. It was a very different experience, even if they were all still in the greeting stage of the day. And then the woman said something in what she could only assume was their native tongue, and Scherezade wished it. She spoke many languages, but they had all been inherited by the memories her grandmother had pressed in her mind, and none of them included the Unknown Regions. Her grandmother had been dealing with the Core and the Eastern parts of the Galaxy for most of her life; the Unknown Regions never interested her in the slightest.
But then hearing Rin and Rynee, Scherezade chuckled. "You've got me if it comes to that," she assured them both, her voice just barely above a whisper. Protection – she had been trained to perform that duty as well, much as she'd preferred to be on the assault regardless.
And then came the last among the Black Suns - [member="Gad Calgaran"]. The moment he came close enough, Scherezade knew what he carried with him, even before he put it down. There was a sensation when one entered the bubble of an Ysalamir, one that she had a hard time describing precisely, but always felt it nonetheless. Part of why she carried so many weapons was due to the fact that in her very first month out of the pebble that had imprisoned her for over seven hundred years, Scherezade had been stuck in a situation where not one of those lizards was used, but many, cutting her off from the Force completely. When that event was over, she vowed to train without the Force as well as she did with it. If she could not be deadly while avoiding using the Force, she had no business being deadly with it either. Or at least, that was the take she had developed after that day.
"The next time you wish to bring defense against someone like me," she said to him with the friendliest of smiles, her voice light and almost bubbly,
"I suggest you bring more than that. A single lizard will buy you perhaps a second a half worth of time if I'm having a bad day."
Realizing perhaps a fraction of a moment too late that this was probably a very bad thing to say at the beginning of a meeting, she cast her gaze to the other two.
"But this is not what we are here for," she explained,
"We've agreed on terms of the meetings and they will be upheld by us. There will be no violence instigated on our end towards you today."
After today, would depend on how the meeting went. But even if it went bad – there were bigger fishes to fry presently in the Galaxy. There was nothing to be gained by antagonizing the Black Sun when the Agents of Chaos could achieve more elsewhere. And that, in part, was why the meeting was called. There was potential here, to be allies, on a temporary basis.
Looking to Ryn and Nyree, Scherezade nodded again. She… Was still learning. Public speaking when it wasn't about inciting a war or a massacre was new to her. And since she had every interest that this meeting would go as well as it possibly could, it was better to let the two Heads of Coin speak. At least, if she hadn't ruined anything with her comment about the Ysalamiri.