No Trail, No Path, Nothing

[Rose Kuhn]

“Ugh!” Rose let out a guttural cry of frustration, her fist smashing into a durasteel wall and denting it slightly.

She felt her knuckles bruise and her bones twitch slightly as they pressed into the dense wall, not breaking only because she had instinctively used the force to strengthen them. Her lips thinned, turning from a full red to a bloodless pink as her frown turned into a scowl.

Papers lay spread everywhere, a wooden desk was sliced in half, still glowing from the blades of two lightsabers. There was a sofa in the corner that had been halfway tossed through a window and the several of the paintings in the room had large gashes in them either from a lightsaber or what looked like claws having torn through them.

She seethed.

Anger rolled off of her in easy folds, the darkside permeating the room and flowing from her like a bubbling cauldron.

This was Titan Industries, or it was. It had once been the office of a low level executive, one that had worked for her father. Since the One Sith's seizure of several Titan Industries facilities, even the ones on Coruscant, most of the offices had been abandoned. This one was no different, and Rose had come here to find some sort of clue as to where her parents had gone.

Yet she found nothing.

Biting her lip Rose walked over towards the cracked and broken window, its transparent visage running the length of the room. She approached it with a slow step, her face reflecting to herself as the bright night lights of Coruscant shone onto her. She stopped, just inches away from the glass, her head moving forward to rest on the transparent surface.

“Where are you guys?” Her voice was a soft plea.

 

[Alexander Sannes]

[member="Rose Kuhn"]

Alexander walked through streets filled with people he never knew and would never know in his life. Hundreds of thousands contained in areas on this planet that played havoc on an Empath's sense. What he was heading towards would be a place with relative calmness to it compared to the noise of the planet itself. But as he continued to get close he couldn't help but feel like the anger in the air got stronger. He didn't know why or understand why either.

As he moved though the footfalls echoed over the ground. Its crowds were thinning but again the anger only grew and when he reached the door he figured it out.

Someone was inside...

Who though he wondered as he walked through the door and pulled the hood of his jacket up, the only fiberweave part of the leather jacket. "Hmm... Hello? Anyone here?" He started to shout as he walked into the abandoned office. No one was there from what he could see. But he could feel them and that was curious.

Perhaps he had come and stumbled upon a disgruntled worker. It wouldn't be that big of a problem if it was one, he would just explain why he was here. What was that reason was a moment of curiosity over what had become of Titan's facilities. After being targeted by its new owner there was so little left. It displaced thousands of people that worked for them. Now thought he knew someone was somewhere in here.

 

[Shaddi]

He sat on the long steps that connected one of the lower levels to the level he was on, the irony of it didn't elude him but Sith had their ways to make people uncomfortable even if just slightly. He sat with a meat filledbun in his hand and his hood so far over his head that he wouldn't be able to see in front of him. Something that suited him just fine since he didn't see with his eyes, in fact his didn't work anyway, he saw with the force and that was just enough for him.

The flare of dark side energy coming from building was nothing new to him, sith got angry over the smallest things sometimes and still dark side energy flared up around them but the trained force user entering the building interested him. The man or boy, he couldn't really tell by the distance between them, didn't look like a sith at all his visage was more light side centered than anything. "What's a jedi doing on corruscant?" He mumbled as he stood up and finished his bun, then took a staff in hand and tapped his way toward the building.

The illusion of being a blind man suited T'zanith for mostly three reasons, he only did it when he was away from the sith temple on corruscant, it made him less of a target for thugs and thief's (ones he usually beat the hell out of if they actually did try anything) and it made him invisible in a crowd since the people of corruscant didn't much care about anyone but themselves to his experience and they cared even less about those that were blind or crippled around then in fact some actively avoided him. All these reasons suited him just fine since with his ropes tattered at the ends the way they were it made him look like a homeless man that still washed his clothes from time to time.

[member="Rose Kuhn"] [member="Alexander Sannes"]

 

[Ellie Mors]

Sitting out back, away from the prying eyes of those who happened to be walking by the gated from of the building that her father had once visited every weekend, was the other child of Alric and Silara Kuhn, Lily Kuhn. Like her sister she was confused and distraught, though she was slightly more.. composed.. than Rose. Rather than hacking away at desks, couches, and whatever else seemed to be in the "ice queen's" way, Lily opted to let her extremely depressed and enraged sibling take out her feelings on the interior of the building while she kept watch. Neither of the two of them, to her knowledge, had joined up with the One Sith, and her own mother had left her a warning via her datacron to choose wisely when it came to them. Looking down, Lily sized herself up - if not for vanity's sake. She'd opted for more normal clothing, designer-brand for the adventurous types, and was rather glad she hadn't came in her expensive silk. Light brown leather pants, a white glistaweb shirt, and a yellow-gold leather corset. Her father had bought the outfit for her at her request some months ago, and it was just now being put into use - the last thing he'd gotten for her really, she'd even gone out the night before to fill her wardrobe with more pairs of the same outfit.

"Ugh, what is taking her so long?" She grumbled to herself, leaning back against the curb that she was sitting beside to allow the back of her head to touch the permacrete walls of the building. Part of her wanted to walk in and take Rose to find that Son her father always had around him, Kiren, while the other part of her didn't really know if that was the best of ideas. The twins' lives had literally been flipped upside down with this, parents gone, company that was to be theirs reclaimed, and now their own planet was practically under siege by criminals, vagrants, and the general poor. Disgusting. Perhaps she was a bit.. prejudicial.. towards those less fortunate, But as far as she was concerned, they were just incompetent and couldn't or wouldn't work as hard as her father had when he became so successful. Back to the matter at hand, and the want to contact someone who had known her father personally, she simply didn't know if she could trust the Sons anymore. Some man named Obauldi had taking over Titan after her parents disappeared, claiming her father had been assassinated with her mother, and immediately split from the One Sith, a move that spelled disaster not only for the company's presence within Sith Space, but also for the planets that they held any form of significant presence on. Coruscant was sacked immediately, she could hardly believe the news, and Empress Teta was now featuring a flux of criminal life that her mother would have certainly put down if she was still.. here.

[member="Rose Kuhn"], [member="Alexander Sannes"], [member="T'zanith Zebron"]

 

[Danger Arceneau]

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Elsewhere in the ‘Verse...


Smoke rose in fleeting blue white wisps; there but only for a moment before becoming a distant memory.

Twin orbs of vibrant green would slowly skim from the active quasar in the distance of the wide viewport onto her holoscreen at the beep of the incoming report. For one who held the aurodium strands of various networks and clout, Danger Arceneau was one to make the most out of each subtle tug and vibration down the line. Things had to be done in response to the news. Vilium was one of them... This, was another.

A request had been asked of her. One that had her mulling over the years and reports therein, each carefully typed and presented to her in highly encrypted files by Aeri Vyn.

Her fingernails would give a light thrum across the well worn and polished bodywood surface of her desk. The clink of ice slowly sinking into the pool of amber liquid of rare Whyren’s reserve, condensation beading like liquid diamonds on the side of the lowball glass.

Two fingers would bring the vice back to her lips, inhaling a slow drag that would send the stimulating narcotic into her lungs, her pupils slightly dilating at the rush of nicotine.

Words came to mind. Scripted in bold curves and lines.


The Twins… I know you’ve never met them… but… just watch them. I tried to teach them some of what you taught me.

A stream of smoke would fall from the corner of her mouth, hooded eyes lifting towards the two miniature holographic images of the grown progeny of [member="Alric Kuhn"] in front of her desk. Their information gleaned from various sources streaming along the holographic screen.

The thrum of fingertaps would halt, and she would lift and reach over towards the analog Dejarik board game in front of her.

With a small move, she would take the M’onnok and move it forward from white to black.

A small holographic scanner would record her move and transmit it half a galaxy away...

 

[Rose Kuhn]

[member="Danger Arceneau"] [member="Lily Kirsche Kuhn"] @T'zanith Zebron [member="Alexander Sannes"]

She sighed against the window, her breath fogging a large patch of it.

The cracks that had spider-webbed out from where she had thrown the sofa against the window seemed spread with the slightest weight, and before huge shards broke off from it Rose took a step back. She frowned slightly, watching as the wind pressed against the glass and spread the cracks further, splintering away pieces of it and threatening to break it.

With listless eyes she scanned the room. Her eyes passed over some of the papers, reading them, catching glimpses of her fathers name and some of his authorizations. She frowned, looking up back towards the door. Her fingers tapped slightly against her own palm, an odd nervous tick that carried through her since childhood.

For a moment more she lingered, then turned.

The lightsabers on her hip shifted slightly as she waved her hand, opening the door with the force. Aunt Vrag had said it was important to train oneself in day to day use of the force, even though she couldn't do much with it. The more you used it the more power you gained. It was a simple concept and Rose had grasped it quite quickly, though the force was difficult at times. “Lily.”

She spoke into a small communicator, her voice barely carrying far enough for the communicator to receive. “I'm coming down. We can go home.”

Rose sounded disappointed.

 

[Alexander Sannes]

@T'zanith Zebron [member="Rose Kuhn"] [member="Lily Kirsche Kuhn"] [member="Danger Arceneau"]

Alexander moved towards the door of the office building when his eyes drifted and he blinked as the form of Lily Kuhn (not that he knew who it was) became known to him. He had stopped no more than a meter from the entrance as he stood there a bit confused why she was leaning against the wall of a abandoned building like this. Well that was up until the point where he reminded himself why he was here. 'Really need to think before you assume things Alex...'

He shrugged and turned to face her as he was curious if she had noticed him yet, though considering the fact she hadn't paid any heed so far he was going to have to guess the answer was likely a resounding no. "Uh Excuse me, this office was once Titan Industries', right?" He looked at the girl. She was two, maybe three years younger, and had red hair that seemed to be darker in color. Tall, but still under his own height, and certainly lost in emotions that he couldn't quite separate at the time. Then came the voice of another.

His head turning to look towards the door as he realized the girl on the outside must be waiting for someone inside. The voice definitely wasn't male, and by the way the one infront of him was acting he assumed a friend or sibling. His mind didn't even make the connection with the third person in the area, it was just good he didn't carry a lightsaber or wear anything that would mark him as a Jedi... In hindsight he probably should have picked a different world to visit but he had always liked Coruscant, before and after the Sith take over. After all the Sith didn't seem to be doing anything to harm the people here.

 

[Shaddi]

T'Zanith moved through the crowd until he came upon the building the boy or man he had seen entered and stopped at it's side. He had arrived just after [member="Alexander Sannes"] had spoken and adjusted his robes a little before taking the staff into his hand and tapped it lightly infront of himself, mostly to further the illusion of his blindness. He entered the building and made sure to stop a few steps behind him. "Hello is there someone there?" He said as his voice was a little raspy and he pulled out a little flask and took a sip to clear up his voice after the meat filled bun he had, had earlier.

Tapping his way a little further inside he stopped between [member="Alexander Sannes"] and [member="Lily Kirsche Kuhn"]. His head moving from side to side as he listened to the sounds around him. 'Hmm one's on her or his way from above... angry or was angry, and the one over there seems to be a sith at least an acolyte like me, but what are they all doing here? traitors?... lovers?' T'zanith thought as his mind began to go over many different possibilities until he decided on coincidence and left it at that until he could glean more from them.

The way T'zanith stood made the hood cover his face pretty well and he had his back bent a little as he supported himself on the staff in his hand, an illusion of a blind old man which he used from time to time as his steel grey hair was the only thing actually visible as it flowed down from beneath the hood over his face.

[member="Rose Kuhn"] [member="Danger Arceneau"]

 

[Ellie Mors]

Lily had brought her hand to her face, the side of her cheek rather, when she heard the static of the communicator in her ear - implying a transmission from her sister upstairs was being relayed. She heard the murmur of her name at roughly the same time she realized she wasn't alone behind the abandoned building. She tilted her head towards the left, where she heard the shuffling of feet, with the expectation that her sister was being over-the-top with her use of their two-way communicator while being just over a meter away - only to find her dark green eyes staring right into the face of an ashen-haired boy. She hadn't really noticed him, wondering if she'd been spied on or watched by him for the passed several minutes, until he began to talk at least, and the simultaneous voices of her sister informing her of her return and the query of the facility didn't quite sit well with her. Here she was, or rather here they were, the children of the Titan of Empress Teta, and here was this.. boy? Well, here was this boy asking her for information on the building that had once belonged to Titan Industries. Blinking her eyes once or twice cleared her vision and the 'boy' appeared to be closer to an adult than a kid, older than her at least.

"Yes, this used to be a Titan Industries building, is there something you need from here?" Lily replied, mentally clicking the communicator on to alert her sister to the appearance of an unexpected visitor. If there was one thing she most certainly was, it was protective of her sibling - even though Rose could easily subdue Lily in any physical altercation. After a moment of staring she leaned forwards and rocked herself forwards and back before pushing herself up from the ground with her hands, which had been brought down to her side. She lightly brushed the dirt and debris from her posterior and lofted a brow at the young man, curious. "So what brings you here...? I didn't quite catch your name." She continued, picking up from her response in order to keep him busy - thinking that perhaps someone was here, evidently watching them, that they might actually be closer to some clues as to their parent's whereabouts than they previously thought. While she waited for a proper reply she looked over the man to ensure he had no insignia of a skull anywhere on his person, not quite interested or looking forward to running into a military group that now worked for the people that claimed her parents were dead - as far as she was aware, at least.

[member="Rose Kuhn"], [member="Alexander Sannes"], [member="Danger Arceneau"], [member=T'zanith Zebron]

 

[Rose Kuhn]

[member="Lily Kirsche Kuhn"] @T'zanith Zebron [member="Alexander Sannes"]

Rose was unimpeded through the building.

There was no one here to stop her, no one here to talk to her or bother her. That was the way of things. Most of this building had been cleared out by the One Sith or the contractors who had hired been hired by them. It wasn't Titan's headquarters located in the city central, just another office building that Titan had built that now stood empty.

She frowned slightly as she moved through the building, bright ice blue eyes shifting over every single surface that she could find. There was nothing here, no trail of her parents, nothing. Was there even a point to looking?

Her head shook from side to side, red hair waving back and forth slightly.

It was hard to believe that they were gone, that they wouldn't be back home when Lily and Rose returned. That the house would be empty, just the two of them and their droids. Her fists clenched, and she shook slightly as she made her way down the stairs, ears perking slightly as she heard her sisters voice.

Who was she talking to? Hands immediately pulled lightsabers from her belt.

 

[Alexander Sannes]

@T'zanith Zebron [member="Lily Kirsche Kuhn"] [member="Rose Kuhn"]

"Curiosity. And my apologies. Im Alexander." He looked at her with a smile before turning his head to look up at the building. Letting his eyes carve their way up the floors before speaking again himself. "What about you whats your name if you don't mind." No intent to do... well anything with the information would come from him. Because well... he had no reason on this planet to cause a problem and even if they said something like Darth whoever he didn't care. He was a Jedi... sort of. He didn't understand alot of this force stuff and sith/Jedi war. So he decided why not witness first hand the actions of the current sith and so far on Coruscant he has seen nothing of worry. "Hmm..."

His attention was drawn from her to the man that appeared to be blind. His body moving to the space in between them and his eyebrow raising slowly as he looked him over. This man didn't look old either, infact he looked even younger than the girl sitting down on the curb. 'I wonder what passerby would see if they looked over this way... A Blindman, Echani, and... Red head all sitting around chatting.' His thoughts were left in his mind as he just spoke now to the man. "Actually yes, myself and..." He glanced at lily for a moment as if asking for her name again before continue. "Well we both were just talking about how great this weather is on Coruscant. Say have you two ever seen it rain before here?" He smiled as he spoke, letting the air move through the spaces between them.

 

[Shaddi]

As the young man spoke T'zanith smiled a little as he turned his head to face Alexander before he let out a slight chuckle as he tapped the staff to a nearby wall and moved to sit down there. "Well actually no I haven't seen it rain on corruscant." He said before he chuckled a little "I haven't seen much of anything in fact but I have felt the rain it is warm and pleasant when it falls on your skin." He then finished with a light laugh as he raised his hood a little to show that he had a blindfold over his eyes marking him as effectively blind to others, which was true his eyes didn't work anyway.

His curiosity grew more and more about the pair as well as the one on her way as he could see her now a little through the walls as a half glowing phantom moving through the building. He took out his small flask and took a little swig of the tasty beverage within it before he cleared his throat again. "By the sound of your voices you are a young man and woman, am I correct in this? and if so please do by all means tell me if I am a bother or in your way. One shouldn't intrude on a couples rendezvous after all." He then said with a light smile on his lips as he wondered what their answers would be since the question itself was only something he was using to provoke a response from the two.

[member="Alexander Sannes"] [member="Lily Kirsche Kuhn"] [member="Rose Kuhn"]

 

[Ellie Mors]

The moment a second person was brought to her attention by the ashen-haired man, revealed to be named Alexander, Lily began to mentally kick herself. Now she was presumably boxed into a metaphorical corner with no way to get out, no skills with a lightsaber beyond the basics of the wild style of Juyo, and little experience using the force in any combative way. Certainly her sibling would have realized she was with visitors with the use of the comm-link - unless that hot-head had happened to shut it off after talking to her. Clicking her tongue in annoyance, tilting her head forwards to let her sunglasses slide down the bridge of her nose in order to get a better look at the newest newcomer, Lily stepped up to the curb, placing the flat of her left palm against it. For some odd reason the subject of weather was brought up - something that didn't really matter to her unless it was pouring - and somehow a very strange and bizarre connection was made by the apparent blind-man that she was in some way meeting with this Alexander person in some sort of a romantic setting. That thought repulsed her, though because of her shallowness rather than any other meaning. "The name is Lily, and I'm not one to be sticking around here for long." She interjected, impatient as ever.

'Can we just get out of this dump already?' Lily thought to herself as she listened to the blind man ramble on about nonsense involving her and the Echani. She rolled her eyes, complete with the shrug of her shoulders and exaggerated sigh. "I have nothing to do with this stranger, and probably nothing to do with you, either." Lily snapped, her frustration pent up and temper flaring. Although her sister was definitely one for violent outbursts and temper tantrums, Lily was just as quick to being verbally abusive. "All this is, really, is just a chance meeting between two complete strangers. I have half a mind to ask why the two of you are trespassing on private property, but I haven't the slightest interest in hanging around this slum for ten minutes longer." She continued, bringing her right hand up to the side of her face, and eventually hair. A slight gasp of horror escaped her lips and she stomped her foot on the ground in frustration. "Rose, my hair is getting frizzy, hurry up and get down here so we can get out of here! I need to fix my hair again!" Lily shouted, absolutely livid with her twin. Whereas Rose might be more enthralled in boyish activities involving a lightsaber and a gun, Lily was far more the girly-girl of the two - always needing designer clothes that were slim, form fitting, and looked absolutely delicious, and certainly hardly ever engaged in actual lightsaber combat, although she was actually quite good for someone that practiced as little as she did. Her skill with the force, however, rivaled her sister's aptitude with twin sabers, though her use of the force was for far less combative things in most cases, specifically sith alchemy.

[member="Rose Kuhn"] [member="Alexander Sannes"] [member="Danger Arceneau"] [member=T'zanith Zebron]

 

[Rose Kuhn]

[member="Lily Kirsche Kuhn"] @T'zanith Zebron [member="Alexander Sannes"]

She twirled the hilts as she came outside, her bright blue eyes searching faces.

Lips turned down into a frown, blood shot eyes from held back tears gazed first to her sister then the other two men. Her grasp on the blades relaxed slightly, though her eyebrow perked at the young man, if only in annoyance. She looked to Lily and considered saying something mean, but she shook her head, realizing that her sister was just coping in her own way. “There's nothing of them here. We can go.”

Was all that Rose said as she came out of the building, the lightsabers having been returned to her belt. She didn't much care for whoever the other two were, they had only come here to find a clue about their parents, something that they had failed in. If the others were here for another purpose Rose didn't much care to find out what it was.

Titan Industries was dead on this world, though she had no doubt it still contained secrets.

Stepping up to her sister, Rose moved to leave the ground of the building only to be blocked by the old man. She closed her eyes in frustration for a moment, letting her eyelids fold open to reveal bright blue orbs staring at the man.

“Move.” A single word riddled with frustration.

 

[Alexander Sannes]

@T'zanith Zebron [member="Lily Kirsche Kuhn"] [member="Rose Kuhn"]

Alexander blinked at the newcomer... or rather the original one to show up and then glanced down at the sabers and his eyes binked as he looked at the other red head and then mentally kicked himself. 'I walked into the same area with two Sith... god my luck could not get any worse today.' He had no way of knowing how skilled they were in the least, nor anyway of knowing what they could do. So he mentally kicked himself again for saying what he was about to say. "Curiosity is why i came to these... abandoned bastions of capitalism... as for why the blind one came, i dont know. And as the lady said for me my sight impaired friend i have no idea who either of these two are as trust me i have no more information than you do on the situation." He smiled as he looked at the blind man and then back at the two girls as his eyes ran to the saber again.

Of all the times not to hide his saber on his person its when he met two sith, only thing that could get any worse is if one of those powerful sith showed up... if one of these two weren't such. That is just what he needed, two sith of considerable skill. "I assume you are Rose then? From what was said by your..." He looked at how close they were in appearance. "Sister?" HE smiled as he stood there, playing it off as just a curiosity which to be fair was no where near that heard considering he was interested in why these two were here too. Did they come for the same reason or for a far different one. It was interesting. Then the Blind man... his appearance was no coincidence too. There was after all no such thing as luck and chance because yada yada something about the Force. The Jedi teachings really got boring sometimes.

 

[Shaddi]

T'zanith couldn't help himself any longer when Rose came up to him and told him to move and then how he heard Alexander speak of his reason being there. Taking his hood off to fully reveal his face and show he was around their age as well. With a slight smirk on his lips he turned his head so he would appear to look from Rose to Lily and then to Alexander. "You two are by far the thickest of the acolyte's I've seen so far." He said before he moved his hand and force pushed Alexander against a wall and then put a little more into it to try and hold him there. "A jedi in front of you and you don't notice it? If I was at the level of a teacher I'd be crying right now." He said in a jesting tone with a slight hint of mocking as he theatrically wiped his finger under his left eye, under the blindfold as not to move it away from his eyes. He didn't like holding Alexander against the wall, especially because it was exhausting for him to use the force since he had never really been taught how to minimize the mental strain of using the force.

He raised his hand then toward Rose and Lily but didn't do anything besides use his hand as a gesture for them to relax and stop thinking of attacking him, he could already see how frustrated Rose was given the anger pooling in her visage to him and he wasn't fond of the idea of going against someone like her with only a knife for protection. "Before you do anything rash how about you two calm down since there is no need for sith to fight amongst ourselves. After all we are on the same "team" here and as a token of good will I offer my help in whatever way I can provide since the two of you obviously didn't come here for the scenery especially the frilly haired one." He said with a friendly smile on his lips which turned into a teasing grin when he directed his head toward Lily.

"Now as for you jedi, it seems your a padawan or perhaps a newly appointed knight I really have a hard time telling those levels apart given how half hazy you always look in my eyes. So then you're here just out of curiosity as well then?" His tone didn't indicate a threat but it could well be taken as a threat of torture by those paranoid enough towards the sith.

[member="Alexander Sannes"] [member="Rose Kuhn"] [member="Lilly"] Kirsche Kuhn

 

[Jed Kerkov]

Jed stumbled his way through Coruscant trying to hold 3 datapads and a briefcase full of credits. So far his banking venture had been completely unsuccessful. No one had put any money in his bank, he'd been robbed 2 times already, and Jed believed he was lost again. He cursed Coruscant repeatedly under his breath as he walked down the alleyways. He had already begun to guild a strong hate for this planet. But his day was a jolly ol' time compared to what happened next. As he was walking down one of the numerous streets he ran into @T'zanith Zebron unknowingly he was a sith. Jed as an impulse said, "Hey man watch where your goi-" But he killed the sentence when he saw the blindfold.

Slowly he knelt to pickup his datapads that he had dropped and the brief case that had split open splattering credits all over the street when had hit the blind man. But as he did he saw something that scared the living daylights out of him, the man had a lightsaber. Jed looked over to the young padawan being force pushed into the wall. Jed sped up trying to pick up his dropped items, thinking 'Come on, come on, hurry up Jed!'


@T'zanith Zebron [member="Alexander Sannes"] [member="Rose Kuhn"] [member="Lily Kirsche Kuhn"]

 

[Ellie Mors]

And there was the dilemma. While she had no hatred for the Jedi - nor did she really know what in the force this man was raving about, acting as though she belonged to some force order as her mother had. Was she wearing a lapel with the symbol of the One Sith emblazoned on it? No? She glanced down at her chest just to be certain, lofting a brow when she was assured she was most certainly not 'labeled' in the literal sense as one of this man's own. In fact, the only thing she really could draw a similarity between herself and the Sith was her use of their magics and alchemy, something she'd picked up from her mother and grew rather attached to. She was not, even in the loosest of terms, one of "his" own. As far as she was concerned, the only "team" she was on was her own, technically with her twin involved whenever Rose breaking something. If there was one advantage the young Lily had here, what with her small reserves of stamina currently present, it was that she was studying the effects of alter environment rather than the "orthodox" force abilities. Alter environment, unlike abilities such as telekinesis, required but a shred of the wielder's own energy in order to modify what was already present in the world around them in order to change the environment itself. "I am no Sith, and I could hardly care less if this man was a Jedi. I am not a part of your little cult of combat-obsessed weirdos, I happen to enjoy buying clothes and new jewelry over fighting." She spat, quite clearly not in the mood for this waste of time.

She hadn't missed the third passer-by that stumbled across the group behind an abandoned office building, once belonging to Titan Industries - which, in turn, once belonged to Rose's and her father. So, whereas she and Lily were simply revisiting old places of importance, it was clear the others around here were much more interested in nosing their way into their affairs. She, personally, couldn't understand how difficult it was for those who apparently lived on Coruscant, the capital of Sith space, to not realize the twins were actually Alric and Silara Kuhn's children, but if it wasn't as obvious as she thought it only served to theoretically help the two of them not stand out so much. While the blind man rambled on about ridiculous things such as teammates and Sith. She rolled her eyes at the stumbling [member="Jed Kerkov"], although she fixated a glare at the Miralukan that got in his way. There was no doubt in her mind that she would be watching Rose using her lightsabers at any moment while she wanted to keep her hands clean as long as possible.

[member="Rose Kuhn"], [member="Alexander Sannes"], [member="Jed Kerkov"], [member="Danger Arceneau"], [member=T'zanith Zebron]

 

[Rose Kuhn]

[member="Lily Kirsche Kuhn"]

Her lips turned down in a frown as the man who had momentarily ago been aged spoke.

Those lips only thinned and turned further as he kept speaking. Bright blue eyes darted to the Jedi as he was tossed against the wall by the force, then floated over towards the man who had just appeared. Her eyes danced back up to the other boy, the one who had claimed to be on the same team. She scowled in disgust, one hand clenching at her side and the other raising slightly, fingers curling.

Others might have taken the opportunity to insult, to banter, to do anything to flap their lips. Her sister was one of those others. Force knew that Lily liked to hear the sound of her voice. Not Rose however. Not her. She had asked nicely, or at least nicely for her, and she had not only been outright ignored, but had been insulted.

Neither Rose nor Lily cared if [member="Alexander Sannes"] was a Jedi, nor did they care if [member="Jed Kerkov"] was the Grandmaster of the Silver Jedi Order. To them it was all semantics and stupidity.

Her eyelids folded down, she let out a cold breath, then blue orbs of ice swept up at the boy standing before her. Fingers flattened, and bright red and black sparks flowed from them in an instance. A singular arc of force lightning jumped from her palm to the boy, enough to fry a nerf steak in an instant, or bring a man to his knees.

 

[Danger Arceneau]

Elsewhere in the 'Verse...


"Where are they now?" came the first question, smoke rising from the vice held between two fingers. Danger would lift her lids to Aeri Vyn, her personal assistant. Aeri was an indispensable part of her inner circle that allowed Danger to do what she did smoothly and efficiently. She was also there to keep things inline with her telempathy and Zeltron nature, much like Alric had utilized Kiran before.

Granted, she was sure Alric used Kiran for other less scrupulous needs, but what she didn't know was better left buried. There were few lines Danger would never cross or stand to see others cross. Alric knew them well.

"Empress Teta, Miz. Arceneau." Vyn would tell her. "They haven't left since the news hit the holonet." Well that wasn't much of a surprise. They'd likely be trying to make sense of it all, what with the sudden disappearance of their father and mother.

"Damn fool idiot," Danger would murmur under her breath. What kind of parent would simply disappear from the life of their children? That just went to show that Alric still after all these years had some growing up to do. For a person who had no other living relatives left, he certainly wasn't putting much stock on the lives of his daughters.

Then again, family for the Queen of Trade was an altogether different flavor. For her, there literally was no one else. She was the end of the line. Losing her first child to a miscarriage and then Fiona to stillbirth made her appreciate and envy the luxury mother's had with their children. That Alric and his wife had done this to the twins was enough to make her even more disappointed.

"Keep an eye on them. I want to know all of their movements." Danger would inform Aeri. They would not get involved...but that didn't mean Danger wouldn't keep watch.

Now the question was, where in the bloody hell did Alric get to?