Echani Vice

[Matsu Ike]

[member="Sasori Arashi"]

Matsu was looking at her and the desert while staying there for a moment grabbing her parasol while she opened it thinking about what she knew. "It has benefited somewhat, the criminal gangs have been pushed back out of the major cities. Gentrification was a major thing once upon a time but I am not certain if it has continued. I was looking to buy a small business here." Matsu was walking with most of her attention on things and she pulled out one of the golden circlets. "These can protect from the sun and heat."

 

[Sasori Arashi]

[member="Matsu Ike"]

Sasori observed the object. She needed to be tough, however. There was a reason why she was always barefoot. In fact, she hadn't worn shoes since she was twelve... and she had always been a sandal-girl anyway. The sand, indeed, burned under her thick soles, but she endured the pain. She'd need to get used to this desolate place. Rocks, glass, people.... she had tread upon it all, but this was different. She hadn't walked on sand this hot before. The rest of her body, as pale as it was, would be susceptible to sunburn if she stayed exposed to the twin suns of Tatooine too long, however.

She slung her sack over her shoulder and started dragging the two canisters of stuff behind her, gritting her teeth as she bore the pain and the weight. Town wasn't far, but with what the young, scantily-clad Echani had to deal with, it wasn't going to be easy. Further, she expected to be harassed for her slutty looks, which she was fine with. She was due for another fight anyway.

 

[Matsu Ike]

[member="Sasori Arashi"]

Matsu looked at her while she was moving through the sand towards the town that they could go into. Not such a bad thing in the long run though while she was looking over it all. "Is there anything you might need? Some of the more dangerous elements here can still be around to bother anyone dressed like." She said it but really she didn't care about the way the girl was dressed, she would dress more comfortably if she could but jedi did have strict codes of cress and conduct... Not always fun in the long run while smelling rhe scent of animals and the other living beings in the town.

 

[Sasori Arashi]

[member="Matsu Ike"]

Sasori kept on with dragging stuff, sucking it up when her body started to protest. "Not sure yet." she replied through gritted teeth. "I might need someone to do... business with when I get to that bridge." she added. As she got into town, she'd stop under some shade a moment, kicking the sand out from between her toes. Her left ankle had what appeared to be a minor injury from a circular object that had been fastened around it. The right one had a similar chaff mark, but it was less noticeable. There were few devices that created such markings.

Sasori would start to look around, glancing at her datapad before choosing her next course.

 

[Matsu Ike]

[member="Sasori Arashi"]

Matsu stopped a little while she was listening and looking at the girl. She had noticed when examining her for healing the marks but she was practical and why should they info dump each other about their respective pasts. She had infiltrated prisons and woth with gangs so she knew some of the attitudes they had but had also seen what came out of groups like that eventually. "Well I am certain you'll be able to land on your feet. You were able to walk away from a crash, something is looking out for you." She sat down next to her and looked at her legs seeing holding a hand out. "If you want I can heal those up, make it less obvious."

 

[Sasori Arashi]

[member="Matsu Ike"]

Sasori looked to her ankles and the shackle wounds on them. She considered the offer, but shook her head. "Nah. They are a reminder of where I was and how I overcame." she said. "I appreciate it, though. I might get new tattoos around them, come to think of it."

Finding the hideout went without incident, surprisingly. Arashi was a loose cannon if there ever was one. Taking land in this hellhole wouldn't be very profitable, but she found amidst the goodies in the place a map of known trade routes and current faction territories. Eshan was in Republic Territory, it seemed. "interesting...." she said.

Sasori would then look around. A great deal of things in the hideout could be liquidated to purchase a ship, preferably one with a bunch of compartments for smuggling her goods through Republic Customs. Where better to start rebuilding what was demolished without her than at the place where it all began: Eighth Street? Her mind finally made up, she began sorting things out.

 

[Matsu Ike]

[member="Sasori Arashi"]

Matsu was looking at her and bowed her head while following to see where they were going. Getting everything in her hideout was a strange thing and it looked like ti hadn't been used for years with most of the old stuff and dust. Still she could see some value in it and standing there with Sasori was kind of interesting she had to admit. She had spent years infiltrating gangs and prisons for the jedi to help local law enforcement that she had never really been with a gang member whom she wasn't planning to arrest in the end.... or at least make sure got arrested. "So is it everything you hoped for? Also you might as a wise man once said be able to get some stripper poles up in here."

 

[Sasori Arashi]

[member="Matsu Ike"]

"Now you're starting to speak my language." she said to Matsu with a grin. "Can't go wrong with stripper poles... except that I ain't stayin' here. I need to go back to where I came up and take it back. I'ma need to get a place back on on Eshan and then we can talk stripper poles." she added.

Turning to Matsu during her inventory, she asked further, "Have you got any home goods for, say... a nightclub in that company of yours?" she asked.

 

[Matsu Ike]

[member="Sasori Arashi"]

Matsu looked at the woman at the mention of a nightclub and... well Saori and Shion were expanding to cover entertainment to get in credits. A way to help control activity and provide comfort. She wasn't delusional to think you could make something perfection she was a realist and the real world would always have people who profited from people needing something. "Yes I do, a could of hotels, casinos and nightclubs." She said it with a grin on her face while she was walking. "THough I am not certain what you could offer in exchange. I might be a jedi but the people who work in those places need to make credits, the ones who makes the supplies need to make credits."