The Right Portions

[Kanis Thorin]

[member="Isis Varida"]

People thought Tatooine could be a cruel dust-ball of a planet? Jakku could be just as worse. The heat, the people, and the fact that you had to do whatever it took to survive made it just another black spot on the galaxy that any decent people knew to avoid. But some didn't have the luxury or the choice.

Kanis finally emerged from out of the wreck of one of the old cruises left behind during the many battles that took place on Jakku. Thanks to Clunk, her faithful gonk droid, she was able to figure which pieces of scrap were more salvageable than others. Due to lack of sight she relied on him for many things. The pieces weren't as many as the last few weeks and already Kanis knew this would mean less portions for the day. Every little bit helped though. That's what her mother always reminded her. Every little bit...

Kanis eventually returned to the junction station where she had to clean the parts. Clunk stayed nearby for her when she was ready to walk, she using both him and her own personal walking stick, made from scrap metal, to maneuver. It was worse with the sandier areas of the planet, Kanis never know where anything was or how near or far she was from anything. Most of the time it was Clunk's warnings or movements that keyed her into what was going on around her.

Standing in line for more portions Kanis could hear the others around her. More people like her, trying to make a living on this rotten planet. Some however took pleasure in keeping those like her down, bullying them and showing them they were in charge; Kanis always joking about the little ones making it a height issue. While blind she could hear a lot around her. The people trying to stay quiet while their breathing was intense, the man in the junction box calling for the next in line while saying how many portions were earned, the scarps of metal as people still cleaned their parts. She could near paint a picture of all around her.

When Kanis finally came up to line the man in the box, looking at what she'd brought, said "One half portion."

"What?" she responded. "But yesterday this was worth two."

"Yesterday I didn't already have half of these parts." he sneered. "One half portion."

Even Clunk seemed to object before Kanis insisted "That's not enough. I need to trade some portion for my droid's battery charges."

"Then unless you can find someone willing to share, or who gives a Gundarks behind, get out of here!" he yelled, calling for some of his men to take her away.

Despite this Kanis began to struggle, no one jumping in to help. She didn't expect it anyways. Most people here only looked out for themselves.

 

[Isis Varida]

[member="Kanis Thorin"]

Jakku was a very interesting place not because it was just outside and away from many things in the galaxy but because it was a prime spot where damorian could work and conduct its tests for all of their things. One of the big things was all of its fighters and speeders they wanted to put a new higher performance engine on so they hired local salvagers to some and get parts or to recover the wreckage if things failed badly. All in the name of advancement and science while Isis was standing there and going through some fo the places in the settlement. Sure it wasn't great but she wore the nice engineer's armor for herself with some of the microsensory mesh gloves so she could check on the smaller things. Her blast saber on her belt and not really seen by many of them when she was approching seeing some commotion ahead where a girl was being taken. "Is there a problem here?"

 

[Kanis Thorin]

The blue alien woman approached, Kanis still struggling against the thugs, before the man in the box had said "This is none of your concern, lady. Step back."

"I want what's due, dammit!" Kanis insisted only to be thrown to the ground by the men.

The blind girl gave an off while her gonk droid beeped and made noises indicating stress. Her anger built up inside as she wanted to attack these men with her gift. Just because she was blind didn't mean she was helpless. She'd show them if she could. Perhaps break their necks before turning the other one inside out.

[member="Isis Varida"]

 

[Isis Varida]

[member="Kanis Thorin"]

She was looking at the man and raised an eyebrow while she thought about ti and what she wanted to do with it when her hand went to the blast saber on her hip. Azure was... not for something like this but she could use it to protect the girl while she moved forward. "A bunch of men picking on a blind girl... I think that is my business now step away of I promise you'll regret it." She said it revealing what looked like a blaster on her hip and she could work with that while also going over more of the stuff. "Just step away and leave her be, I don't want to have to make you xplode from this grenade pistol. I'll be safe but you'll have an explosive grenade on you that goes if I press a buton, it is tampered with or my heart stops." Not totally true but micro grenades were amazing things for disabling armored vehicles and bouncing off flesh to leave an impact.