[center]~| 08:30 - 08:42 GST |~
~| Kaggath, Sith sector, Starboard side, two rooms from arena |~[/center]

Vivithe let out a sigh right after the guards left the room, the Jedi in tow as they hauled the unconscious girl back to the cells where she would be left. If things had gone more the Sith lady's way then she would not have even needed to strike the girl or have her knocked out. She disliked the hands on approach, her beautiful fingers touching unworthy Jedi, especially a stubborn one so willing to die, refusing to take action when her life may have been on the line. The girl's idiocy only made Lady Lansha want to break the girl more painfully than she had originally planned. She was never one to take pleasure in someone else's pain, but when one hit a nerve of her's that changed.

Her eyes lingered on the monitors in the room,  then she felt something through the Force, it was one of the Jedi, closer to her position. Perhaps one had sneaked out of the cells in the chaos in the other part of the ship. The Sith approached one of the monitors, a smaller one, then rose her hand to click buttons on the keyboard, the view on the monitor flickered through several rooms, then she found what she had sensed, a Jedi girl in a room, alone, sitting in a corner. An odd sight, Vivithe did not sense another Force user in the girl's proximity, so it couldn't have been an encounter with another Sith, or even a laid trap.

Curiosity took over Vivithe as she went through the recent recordings on the camera, carefully piecing together the girl's movements through the recordings. This was a sneaky Jedi, she had quietly  took a training saber from the Arena before she exited the area as quietly as she entered, then she went to the room not far from Vivithe. In another moment Lady Lansha exited the room, sealing the doors of the room behind her as she moved through the hallways, cool and composed in her walk as she always was, her hood up, silent, after a short walk she found the room the Jedi was in, then stepped inside, her hands folded in front of her as she spoke out loud. Her voice filled with more curiosity than any emotion.

"What are you doing in here, girl?"

Lea jumped a little when the Sith addressed her, despite having been prepared for discovery. “Waiting for you. Or someone like you. It took you long enough to find me. Are everyone blindly watching the fight up in the prison or something like that?” 

“I would assume so, several of your fellow captives have gotten themselves involved, but it’s not going like they want it to.” Vivithe replied, almost smirking at the notion of the girl waiting for someone to find her. Like a child playing hide and seek with a parent.

“That’s what they get for antagonizing a Trandoshan, I suppose. They might’ve been better off if they were armed, but at the same time, the trandoshan would probably show less restraint if they were.” Lea smiled up at the Sith, not recognizing her and wondering what the Sith would do next. Considering how long she’d been able to hide, she had her doubts that the Sith had spotted her picking up that practice saber.

“Such as using a stolen weapon? There are many on the ship, some are careless with such things. Training sabers, pikes, the such. I doubt it would help much against Lord Sish, especially when he is so determined. A weapon would only anger him, his anger would only empower him.” Vivithe replied, copying the smile.

“So he [i]is[/i] a Sith lord… That explains a few things…” Lea was uncertain for a moment when the Sith spoke of stolen weaponry, but made sure not to give any hint about her filched weapon. If the Sith knew about it, she would either take it, or she wouldn’t. No point in giving her any reason to do it. “I think I’ll stay out of his way if I can. I rather like my limbs where they are.”

“That is a smart move. Unlike some of the other Jedi on the ship though, they carelessly throw themselves right into dangerous situations. No thought beforehand about self preservation. I wouldn’t put it past that Sith Lord to take off limbs, he’d probably laugh while doing it.” Vivithe replied, she did briefly laugh at the girl’s answer, it wasn’t something she expected to hear.

“Though he might take off more than one if he saw someone coming at him with a stolen training saber.” She added on, acknowledging that she did know of what Lea had on her.

“Yes. He would at that, I suppose. But you would of course prevent anyone from getting away with one, wouldn’t you? I certainly would have, and even if I had one, I wouldn’t be foolish enough to go against a Sith Lord with one.” Lea smiled innocently at the Sith, wondering if more would be made of it. She didn’t reveal that she had one, but neither did she truly deny it.

“I might turn a blind eye towards the thief, if one was taken. Dependent on what they did with it. Though I would punish those that did not Jedi-proof where the items were stored.”

“Nothing here is Jedi-proofed. The security system is laughable. Surveillance, if I’ve understood it correctly, is spotty.” Lea saw no reason to conceal those truths. If the Sith hadn’t spotted those flaws herself, then she was blind.

“Perhaps they were left that way as another test on the ship? It is true that you cannot really Jedi-proof something, but you can put more effort into guarding or concealing it. I am curious why a Jedi would take a training saber, unless there was a further purpose with it. There is that other boy on the ship who is quite capable with machinery, but he is not in great shape from his encounter with the Trandoshan.” Vivithe replied, she had figured out who the girl was, and remembered how Xid looked at her, how she looked at him.

She smiled up at the Sith. “Wouldn’t you like to know?”

If the Sith did not know what a fully trained knight could do with a training saber, then she didn’t deserve to know it. She wondered a bit when some sort of recognition passed over the Sith’s face, but did not catch the import of it. “I’ll probably have to patch him up. Again. He really should be more careful, but I can’t watch over him all the time. Nor should I need to.”

“You may need to. He did start that encounter with Lord Sish, the Sith encountered the boy with another one of the Jedi, the Twi’Lek girl, he caught them in the middle of a romantic moment. A kiss, but that ended quickly once Sish arrived. The boy tried to save her, like a warrior saving his princess. The look on his face as he assaulted a much stronger, larger man because he put his claws on the girl.” Vivithe said, no real emotion on her face as she spoke the full truth for once.

There was a moment of anger on Lea’s face at the mention of the kiss, but that faded quickly, both as she got herself back under control and as the mention of Lord Sish stopping it. She had no way of knowing if the Sith spoke the truth, but neither was there any reason to believe she did not at this time. She simply didn’t know enough about social interaction to be sure. Lying politicians were so much easier to deal with than people who spoke truths and half-truths, and even they were hard to get.

“Good.” she answered. Making it clear she approved of the kiss being stopped. “I should really talk to him about not starting fights he can’t win…”

“That would be a smart course of action. A smart man knows to pick and choose their fights when captive on the enemy’s vessel,” Vivithe replied. “Though it is quite beautiful that love can blossom even in such a terrible situation, even between two in an Order that tries their damnedest to shove away feelings of romance. Don’t you agree?” 

“Yes. I do. There’s no logic behind that rule. I’m not some sort of beast and my parents were both Jedi, and their parents before them going back generations.” Lea had clear opinions on those particular regulations. She saw no benefit to them and many problems. Her master would probably agree. But that she had no way of knowing for sure, seeing how her master was not around.

“I agree with you, Jedi. If anything your family has made you stronger, each generation as Force sensitive as the last, it could only be a positive thing,” Vivithe said with a nod. “Though I do believe that you should head back to the Cells, I’m not sure what would happen if another Sith found you wandering.”

“Banning marriage or romance only leads to one thing: fewer force-sensitives. It’s a rule without sense. It was nice talking to you, but I should probably head back up. I’d rather not lose any limbs to angered trandoshans or other Sith.” Lea had at least gotten to do something other than waiting and watching the others, and if the Sith didn’t intend to take away the practice saber, she wouldn’t want to give her any extra opportunity to change her decision.

Vivithe smirked at the Jedi’s answer, then spoke once more before she parted ways with the Jedi. 

“Do be careful with whom you inform of the stolen practice saber. Even your fellow Jedi. You never know what seeps out during torture, information like that may put you into a compromising situation where a Sith could come for [i]you[/i] and take limbs.” She added, then left the room, making her way back to the surveillance chamber. She liked that Jedi, the girl was different from the others, smarter.

After the Sith left, Lea did not wait long before going back up to the prison complex. She didn’t skulk as she did, but neither did she move too obviously. She moved more as if she belonged there. It was too bad she never had learned how to fool surveillance systems with illusions. She could only begin to imagine what one could get away with if masquerading as a Sith or an imperial trooper.