[Center][b]Chained Despair,
Hyperspace Transit to Thyferra[/b][/Center]

Andrea had her eyes closed as she meditated in the cargohold, she missed the comfort of her chambers to center herself, but that was not possible right now, mostly due to her currently being on a ship in hyperspace, the second reason was because her chambers were still being repaired and refurbished after Azazel had burned it down. At the thought of Azazel she gritted her teeth as her anger returned, the reason she was meditating was to calm herself. After the call with her sith lover, she clenched her fists, former lover she corrected herself, she had done her best to find solitude aboard the craft and calm herself since that abysmal call.

She heard the sound of footsteps and still with her eyes closed extended her hand, opened her hand and let lightning cackle and arc around her fingertips. "Leave. Now." She managed to growl out to whoever was there, she hadn't even bothered to try and sense who it was.

Silence answered her, indicating that the one who disturbed her meditations was still there then her intruder answered, recognizing the voice belonging to Darth Talon. "Will you kill me if I do not leave mistress?"

Frowning she turned around, opening her eyes to look at the Twi'lek disciple, she was... surprised and weary at the same time. Talon was standing there, calmly looking at her, studying her and when she had spoken not a hint of fear was present in her voice or body language. She stood up slowly, locking eyes with Talon the entire time, crossing her arms, "Are you challenging my authority?" She asked slowly, whispering the words but audible enough for Talon to hear.

"No mistress, I am not." She responded, again in that calm, neutral tone of voice.

Andrea gritted her teeth in annoyance and again she felt lightning arc around her fingertips, she balled that hand into a fist and then released it. With a flick of her wrist her lightsaber unhooked itself from her belt and flew into her hand, igniting it with ease. "I will not have my authority questioned by anyone Talon, not even my own hand... I said I wanted to meditate in peace and yet here you are, disobeying my direct order, which should mean I execute you. Right here, right now."

The Twi'lek looked at the ignited blade and then at her mistress, stepping forwards but not igniting her own saber. She was still approaching when Andrea let out a growl and reached out with her other hand, more lightning appearing as she narrowed her eyes and mentally started to prepare herself for a fight. Blinking in surprise when Talon went through her knees and sat on her knees, looking up at Andrea and tilted her head, baring her neck. "If you wish to execute me, do so mistress. I am your hand, your servant. I may have disobeyed that order, but I have other orders you have given me that precede that one. You gave me the task to be your hand, your bodyguard, your assassin and guardian of secrets mistress. To be always at your side, standing in the shadows if necessary. I have heard most of what was... said in your conversation with Darth Azazel, I understand that you may be distressed right no-"

"YOU UNDERSTAND NOTHING!" She shouted, enraged and with a gesture and tapping into the force grabbed hold of Talon and lifted her off the ground, holding her in place as she stormed forwards her snarling face inches away from Talon's. "You are a servant, it is not your place to 'understand' anything but to obey my commands and serve me with loyalty and dedication!"

She did not struggle in any way as her mistress held her like this with the force, still calm. "I am obeying your commands right now mistress, if killing me grants you some measure of calm and a clear head, take it. My life is yours. If that is what you want of course."

Andrea blinked, was Talon... really that dedicated to her, with a growl she brought her lightsaber close as if to decapitate her servant but still she remained calm and did not struggle in anyway. Standing like that for several more moments she deactivated her saber and returned the hilt to her belt, lowering Talon back to the ground at the same time. "No... not killing you is not what I want to do."

Rubbing her wrists and turning her shoulders after Andrea's grip on her with the force had been released Talon continued. "Then what do you want then, do you wish Azazel to die? If so I could-"

"No!" Andrea said at once, cutting Talon off for any further mention of that. "If anything I would have that blasted filth that must be related to a Hutt of a Gra'tua to die, but no I do not wish him eliminated either... not right now." She sighed and for a moment looked small and vulnerable, whispering, mostly to herself but Talon must have heard it. "I just want her back..." Gritting her teeth as she realized how pathetic and weak she must sound right now she straightened herself and stared hard at Talon. "But that is impossible and pointless to even consider. You will not repeat what I just said to anyone. Or I will have your head cut off that body of yours, which while it would be a waste I can always find a replacement."

"Of course not mistress... but why would it be impossible?"

Andrea snorted in response and shook her head, "Because clearly she hates me right now, apparently I had to tell her every dirty little secret of something that had happened almost twenty years before I even met her!"

Talon cocked her head, "Perhaps, perhaps not, mistress you told me you would stop at nothing to get something you wanted, are you implying that there is something, or someone, you cannot get after all?"

She blinked and looked at Talon with surprise for a moment before she narrowed her eyes. "You.... are a sneaky one." She muttered.

Talon shrugged and for a brief glimpse she almost seemed to smile before her features continued keeping their neutral and impassive look. "I am a reflection to the training my mistress, you, gave me."

Shaking her head Andrea turned and gestured to Talon, "So I gather, you are dismissed Talon. Have me informed where we are next time we drop out of hyperspace, I will resume my meditations." She heard Talon turn around and walk away but before the disciple was completely out of her presence Andrea spoke up again. "Talon... send a message to my contacts among the cults and spies... have them try and keep a eye on Azazel for me about her whereabouts." She heard Talon respond a affirmative and then was left alone once more as she closed her eyes, muttering quietly to herself. "It seems you are not going to get rid off me that easily Azazel...."

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The Adventures of Hadzuska,
Dropping off a passenger....
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Hadzuska was leaning against the wall of the cargo area of the corvette, looking at her guest, when her communicator gave a alarm she casually activated it and was informed they were about to drop out of hyperspace near a inhabited planet with a local spaceport. Informing the captain to keep up the good work and inform her at once when they had arrived she ended the call and walked towards the young girl. "Well then, it seems we will be arriving soon at a planet with a spaceport." She said while stretching, cursing that bounty hunter silently as her leg was still aching a little.

"So it would seem..." Rane replied as she seemed to shift from a slight case of discomfort. "I do appreciate the ride. The hunter would have caught up to me again eventually had I stayed on the Wheel."

She shrugged in response, "You saved me, knowingly or not and this is the least I can do to return the favour I suppose." She smirked, "Unless you have changed your mind about the offer of teaching about the force from my mistress." She chuckled but stopped when the voice of the captain came through her comm again. "Ah we have arrived, and are moving in to land on the spaceport on the planet below us. No idea what it's called probably a minor traffic place if it is close to the Wheel as it is." She said as she felt slight vibrations a moment later as they went through the planet's atmosphere.

"Your teachings run contrary to what I was taught. While My training was far from complete I feel I owe my father to stick to his lessons." Rane replied with a slight shake of her head. "His lessons are the reason I returned to save you. So maybe you owe him too, from a certain point of view."

Hadzuska looked at her curiously. "Funny that is not what you said before." She mused, "Well then my thanks to your, I assume, late father. And perhapss his teachings are contrary to what my mistress offers." She tilted her head, "I however didn't even mention what kind of teachings those were."

"Part of surviving is being perceptive. Your tattoos, and crimson blades mark you as a student of Sith teachings." Rane replied as she tensed a little.
AndiSyl: Smiling Hadzuska looked at the yougn woman. "Perhaps and what does that mean according to you?"

"That you embrace your agressive feelings, often in the name of personal agenda's, or so I was told." Rane said as she looked Hadzuska in the eyes. "That you follow a path different to my own, one I do not wish to tread."

"Interesting, is that what you were told... or what you observed so far?" She asked.

"You acted upon aggression against the Hunter." Rane replied with a calm voice that belied what she was feeling. "As to your motives I cannot say, nor have I had much dealings with other students of the sith."

"Aggression? I was actually talking to him before, I only resorted to violence when it seemed he would not listen to reason and wanted to capture me for a bounty, I hardly doubt you would have reacted differently under the circumstances." She said with a shrug. As she was informed they were cleared for landing and would touch down upon the surface in a moment.

"You were annoyed, frustrated, aggrivated, You used that when you struck at him." Rane said with a shrug before smiling slightly. "Perception is not only what one sees with their eyes. Particularly for thsoe trained in the Force."

She just nodded and was about to respond when she felt the ship had touched down and the cargo ramp was being lowered. "Well we have arrived." She gestured to the ramp being lowered. "Over here please." She said going first.

Rane hesitated slightly at the tone Hadzuska used, but then staying on the ship wasn't going to make the apprehension she felt any better. So she followed Hadzuska to the ramp, resisting the urge to pat her sabre to make sure it was still there.

Hadzuska was the first off the ramp and stretched, gesturing out to the spaceport, their berth empty but for themselves, "Well here we are, as I promised of giving you a ride, think you can manage finding your way off this planet and stay away fro mthat hunter?"

Rane kept walking for a bit after she got off the ramp, putting Hdzuska between herself and the ship before she turned back to face the twi'lek woman. "I should be able to manage something... though... might I ask another boon from you?" Rane said as she glanced at her feet for a moment. "You may have noticed We left the Wheel and all I had with my was the clothes I wear and my fathers blade... if you could maybe spare a few credits?"

She chuckled, "I suppose saving my life, is worth more than just having you be a passenger for one trip." Hadzuska answered and went through the pockets of her robe, producing some credit chits and tossed them to young woman. "Should be enough to buy some food and get yourself as a passenger on a leaving freighter or something."

"Thank you," Rane said as she caught the chits, which quickly disapeared into the folds of her clothes."Maybe we will meet again and I can repay you." She said with a short bow.

She smirked, "May the force be with you." She watched Rane walk away and called out. "I feel compelled to ask one last time. Are you sure you do not wish to go with me, where you would be safe from the hunters and others wishing ill towards our kind?" She said in a calm, neutral tone of voice.

"Though our paths may cross from time to time I have no deire to walk yours in its entirety." Rane said, echoing what she had said before as she turned and started walking away from the ship. "You stay safe though Zuska." She called over her shoulder to the twi'lek woman.

She watched the padawan go and nodded to herself. "Well I tried, she walked back up the ramp, eying the blackwatch soldier standing atop it. The soldier gestured to the retreating back of Rane Koda and then raised his rifle. She shook her head, "No, I promised her a ride away from that world and I did, I have no urge for her to die. Gather some supplies and we are off this rock to continue our search." With that she looked back one last time. "Wonder if she survives." She mused to herself.