A New Kind of Recruiting (Invitation)

[Triune]

*how many more times would he have to hear people say things about 'his kind' as if they knew anything? The arrogance dripping from her words, she thought she was in control here. He would show her what his kind were like. Without a rustle of his coat he sprang, not towards her as one expecting at attack might expect but instead he leapt towards the wall ahead of him, two, three steps up the rough surface and then his mighty leg muscles bunched up and he sprang from the wall twisting in mid air to be facing her, his arm stretched out to clothesline her, he could have aimed to kill but not yet, there was a payment of suffering to be meted out first.*

[Lady Zahra/Jules]

*She reached her hand out and used the Force to create a large amount of resistance between her and him to stop him or at least slow him down. With her other hand outstretched towards Radmila, she lifted the unconcious twi'lek into the air as her arms and legs dangled down. Her neck though was held up and he could see the skin around it wrinkle as if someone had her in a choke hold.*

"STOP! Or I will crush her throat so quickly, she'll drown in her own pool of blood!"

[Triune]

*The resistance was enough to stop him, but his balance was fine enough to allow him to drop to his feet instead of fall on his face. Vassur spared Radmilla but a glance, his focus on Rajani. The call to battle reverberated through his system and like all his people wrought changes on him. Strength, Agility, stamina all amplified, fingernails growing steel hard, senses expanding, these were the traits that made his people different from humanity.*

"That would be ill-advised."

*He crouched slightly, enough to render him capable of reaching her in a single spring.*

"If injuring her has made me this insensed do you really think killing her will calm me down? Her life is all that is keeping you living. Speak your words human, your time and my patience are both running out."

[Lady Zahra/Jules]

*She laughs at his reaction. Oh indeed he was quite the specimen...a truly wonderful addition to her rag tag Dark Jedi.*

"You speak as if you have control of this meeting and I am the one cornered. Her life depends upon your own actions. YOU control her fate and not I. This is the only way you will listen to what I have to say and the only way you can spare her life. Really you have nothing to lose here to listen but everything by not listening. Killing her may not calm you, but doing so would haunt you for the rest of your life. Here, the great Vassur...the only one of his people to ever leave the rest of his kind and enter the galaxy...HE was responsible for killing the one person he was most bonded to and fond of by acting with stupidity. How many years would it haunt you knowing you could have made things differently?"

*She watched his face for his reaction as her grip against the woman's neck tightened and crackling sounds could be heard. It was then that Radmila's eyes opened and she began to struggle.*

"Now do you still wish to utter threats or listen...really listen to what I have to say...."

[Triune]

*His expression is impassive, his emotions unknown, he remains crouched, ready to fight.*

"Speak your piece human, I'm listening."

*He wasn't completely sure but Vassur felt he could break her hold on Radmilla if it came to that. Within his shell of animosity he narrowed his focus, seeing the flow of the ripples around them, judging where best to interject his will to save her should this woman force his hand.*

[Lady Zahra/Jules]

"Your work on Nar Shaddaa has not gone unnoticed. There are several who wish to take you down and several who wish to sign you up. The things you accomplished I know are beyond any normal man or woman. You have a gift. A rare gift that is untrained. My proposal is one of training. You seek for your place in this world and find none so far. There are questions deep in your mind you want answered. I can give you all of that....and more."

*As she spoke, there seemed to be a power eminating from her. This was no ordinary woman. The seduction of her voice and the power held within her eyes showed him the truth of her words. Waiting to see how he processed her words and checking her lure, she waited before speaking more.*

[Triune]

*Her amplification of her power did bring hesistation to Vassur's mind. Her strength might indeed be too much for him to overcome. Her bait, the offer of power, meant nothing to him. Power offered him nothing but her offer of knowledge, that did appeal to him. That and the fact he doubted he could sever her grip on Radmilla did begin to sway him. He had to know however.*

"And what can you teach me human? How to become reliant on technology to win my battles? I have seen the Light blades used by the Jedi, they are corruptions of the Path, distractions from full immersion into the Way. I can already deflect the bolts of blasters and I had not your mentoring, how long think you it will take for me to learn to block those blades with my bare hands? Show me your Way is without such distractions..."

[Lady Zahra/Jules]

"Weapons can become too messy. Working with your hands always results in the best outcome. By joining with me, I will harness your strength and make you a killing machine that is unequaled. Plus, you have curiosity into the ways of the Force. I can tell by your response. What you want to know, I can tell you and so very much more. Does this appeal to you?"

*The grip on Radmila lessened until she was simply held in the air. Her breathing was raspy as she tried to catch her breath. Her eyes teared from the pain flowing through her body and the possible outcome of this event.*

[Triune]

"I already am a killing machine, ask the Hutt who's hearts I ripped out. I kill for my own reasons, not because I am ordered to. IF you train me this you must know otherwise you're going to get very tired of constantly threatening Mila and those I care for. If your way is true then teach me without the threats and show me how I am wrong to follow the path I am on... Or are you that unsure of the truth of your own path?"

*He could feel her grip relax on 'Mila and that was a plus. If he could make her focus just on him...*

[Lady Zahra/Jules]

"You think I don't kill for specific reasons? Each one of my targets is carefully selected. Each plan is thought out carefully as well. You ended the rule of a Hutt that was destroying the economy of Nar Shaddaa. Now it will prosper. You and I are not that much different, Vassur. Not that different at all. Yet, if you do allow me to teach you, you will have to obey me and do as I say. The things you do only improve you further and make your training holdfast. I am no monster. The decision is simple, really. You agree for me to train you and Radmila walks out of here alive and well. Never again will I threaten her or haunt those you care for. Her pain in this is unfortunate. I am sure of the path I follow and what it can lead you to......wholeness."

*She reaches her hand out to him yet her grip on Radmila does not lessen one bit.*

[Triune]

*He smiled, it wasn't a pleasent sight. Teeth transmographied into beastial fangs. His hand encompasses hers as he doesn't shake but holds on to it tightly, the very ripples of the reality around them pulsating through his flesh. His eyes blue as a calm sea but within them hides a feral fury.*

"We have an accord. I will accept your training and your word and thus Radmilla and all that I care for remain unharmed by you and yours. You risk much in this, human, far more then you can possibly know. The universe loathes a singularity, if you hear no other of my words take those to heart."

*He releases her hand and lowers himself to one knee before her, his head bowed in deferance to her and their bargain.*

[Lady Zahra/Jules]

*She watches him for a moment and then releases Radmila. Instead of letting her drop to the floor, she sets her down gently. Knowing she has to be nice to this woman until she could get her claws around Vassur completely, she does all she can for the moment.*

*Radmila sinks to the ground gasping for air and coughing. Tears fill her eyes as she looks at Vassur bowing before the monstrosity of this woman. Struggling to her feet she braces herself against the wall. Had her head not been swimming, she would have killed the woman right here and now.*

*Rajani smiled at her and then turned to Vassur dropping a medical pouch to the ground.*

"I will leave you both alone. Meet me topside after you have seen her safely to her ship."

*Saying nothing else, she starts to walk back up the ramp, disappearing in the shadows like before.*

[Triune]

*He picks up the pack and turns to Radmilla, he doesn't speak but instead sees to her wounds with care and efficiency. He seems as calm as ever.*

[Lady Zahra/Jules]

*She sinks to the ground again and looks into his eyes through her own tear stained ones. Her voice was faint and raspy as she spoke.*

"You don't know what you've done. I would rather have had her kill me than see you join with her. Don't you know who that is?"

[Triune]

*He continues to tend to her wounds as she speaks remaining silent..... Or so watchers will attest. A bubble within a ripple, a gap in what seems and what is, this is what he creates to speakto her.*

"She is the mirror image of a Jedi, a strong one at that. When you are back on your ship you will treat as those you are being hunted by the Republic and the Hutts, you will search your ship from stem to stern for bugs and transponders, after that you will activate the packet that I put in your nav com, it's under the name 'Dead files'. In that packet your Nav-com will find the Coordinates to my homeworld, it exists on no map nor in any database. You are to go there without sidetreks. There is but one port on the world, land there and find the Harbormaster, he is my uncle. You will tell him all that has happened. He will see to a place for you there. I do not wish you to come to harm, among my people you will be safe until I tend to this. If you are safe beyond her reach then she has only the hold over me I allow her to have." He puts his hands on her shoulders, looking squarely into her eyes to prove his seriousness "Please 'Mila, do this for me."