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Post by Jefardi Owwaullis on Jul 12, 2012 14:50:18 GMT -5
"You should probably just wear those then,....since...y'know....their comfortable....n'stuff...." he said quickly, or tried to rather, with long gaps inbetween his words, glad that an answer was practically given to him by her.
As she sat down on the bed next to him, and touched his cheeks, and pointed out that his cheeks were red, he paused for a moment.
Calm down, he thought, its not like she is going to change in front of me or anything.
After a few moments he was able to get his mind to stop having thoughts racing. His silver skin became a touch more golden in its hue.
"Yes, yes they are."
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Post by Ajjiaka Thundder on Jul 12, 2012 14:57:46 GMT -5
”Kinda cute.”
Ajjiaka smiled and got up, grabbing her clothes.
”I’ll be back, I’m going to freshen up and change. You can stay here if you want or do whatever you want.”
She turned and walked out then trotted to the refresher. She cleaned herself and put on the new clothes, folding her night gown perfectly into a small rectangle. Skipping back to her room she hummed a tune and placed the night gown in its correct location within the storage locker. Then it occurred to her that Jefardi was sitting on her bed where her old favorite toy was hiding, she hoped he still hadn’t discovered it.
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Post by Jefardi Owwaullis on Jul 12, 2012 15:08:28 GMT -5
Ajay left the room, and he sighed inwardly with a little bit of relief. He looked around the room, and noticed, a lump in the bed.
Odd.
But it was mostly likely Ajay's and he decided to leave Ajay's stuff alone, she probably wouldn't like it if he messed with her stuff, especially given this was her private room.
Standing up, he went looked down at the remaining food and left it where it was in case Ajay got hungry later. Walking out of the room, he went to the cargo hold to grab his staff that he had left there when he had grabbed the food.
Now where to go?
There was at least four rooms he hadn't been to yet, the other cargo hold, the cockpit, closed off closet like thing in the lounge and the engine room. Jefardi was interested in seeing what the other cargo hold had to offer and started to walk towards it.
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Post by Ajjiaka Thundder on Jul 12, 2012 15:22:52 GMT -5
Ajjiaka moved gracefully, more or less tiptoeing. She made her bed look nice, pulling the pale light pink blanket halfway over the pillows. She tucked the dewback in, with his head on the pillow, as if he was sleeping and smiled. Then she looked around, picking up the breakfast supplies and taking him to the food storage. She looked around, curiously. Where was Jefardi?
She glided into the lounge area and went to the communications center, browsing through a galactic news feed casually. Blah blah, same old uninteresting fodder there always was. She looked, a holo message from Dhar. Perfect.
She opened it. An image of a trandoshan, strong and heavily armed.
:: « “Ajjiaka, you know you still owe me money. Stop avoiding my attempts at communicating with you; don’t make me do something I will regret, dear one. Contact me.”» ::
She flicked the message off, rolling her eyes with a sigh. She deleted the message.
She strode over to the cock pit and looked around. She walked into the dormatory and frowned, pondering. returning once more to the lounge, she sat down, looking around, she spotted Jefardi.
”Whatcha doin?”
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Post by Jefardi Owwaullis on Jul 12, 2012 15:48:10 GMT -5
"Honestly I don't know" answered Jefardi, " I guess wandering"
It was quiet here now, nothing was going on,
turning to Ajay he asked,
"So what do you do for fun around here? I'd imagine that since you are traveling alone most of the time, you mentioned you never have people on your ship, so you must have something to do, right?"
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Post by Ajjiaka Thundder on Jul 12, 2012 15:57:05 GMT -5
Ajjiaka pondered this.
”I um… well I sit in my cockpit… I watch the stars, watch the news feed… eat… sleep… drink. I work on my ship; make sure everything is running smoothly. Sometimes I update things when I get new parts. And I actually have a flute I play on occasion.” She shrugged.
”Not much. Sometimes I practice with my vibrosword.”
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Post by Jefardi Owwaullis on Jul 12, 2012 16:03:44 GMT -5
"So you know how to use a sword well then, yes?" he asked curious. Ajay had mentioned that she used to hunt, but he had assumed she was talking about long distance stuff, not close quarters.
"I on the other hand prefer a staff" as if to prove a point he did a quick twirl of the staff he was holding.
Then an idea came to his head, "hey Ajay, would you happen to willing to do a quick sparring match?"
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Post by Ajjiaka Thundder on Jul 12, 2012 16:15:34 GMT -5
Ajjiaka considered it.
”Sure.”
She walked up to him and gave him a small hug, and whispered softly,
”Don’t expect me to play nice.”
She smiled and trotted to her room to get her vibrosword. She returned with it. It was a nice blade, nothing too special. Along the sharp edge was a protective rubberlike “sleeve” that protected only the sharp edge for training and transporting. The handle was golden in color accented with tasteful design and bright blue detailing. She held it to her side, looking at Jefardi with a higly focused gaze, and a facial expression he had not yet seen from her full of seriousness but also that hint of playful mischief somewhere buried on a deeper level of the gaze.
"My blade is protected... i trust you as well to make any necessary precautions..."
Her tone was different, less playful, very matter-of-fact and to the point.
Just when one would think all happiness was gone, she grinned.
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Post by Jefardi Owwaullis on Jul 12, 2012 16:29:05 GMT -5
Nodding his head, he took a few steps back, and made a slight show-off-y flourish with it, before holding it in a ready position, both hands facing down, feet spread shoulder length apart, one foot more forwards then the other, the staff in a diagonal location, he was ready.
After he was in a defensive stance, he waited a minute, nothing happened.
Quietly he said, "go whenever you are ready"
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Post by Ajjiaka Thundder on Jul 12, 2012 16:36:37 GMT -5
Ajjiaka scanned him, noting his position, movement, muscles… a smile crossed her lips.
She moved, almost dancing, to his left and took a test swing at his abdomen, it was simple, completely defendable, and with little strength behind it. However her eyes were locked on his body, observing the movements he would make. Even her attack seemed completely defensive. She was testing him, he would likely be able to see that she was. Now would be the defining moment, would he be reserved in his defensive tactics or open with them. She was fully prepared to roll or jump from a counter attack.
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Post by Jefardi Owwaullis on Jul 12, 2012 16:47:42 GMT -5
As Ajay swung at his mid body, Jef slided to the right, and let the left section of the staff catch the blow. The reasoning behind this, instead of letting it completely miss was he was going to use the momentum of the staff being pushed back on the left side, to add momentum to his counter attack with the right end of the staff, the momentum that the sword would add plus his strength would make a resounding crack if she didn't dodge soon...
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Post by Ajjiaka Thundder on Jul 12, 2012 17:04:09 GMT -5
Ajjiaka watched him, and allowed her sword to move, she ducked out of the way, but held the contact with his staff momentarily, raising her sword up. She glided underneath the weapons, breaking contact with his staff. Her nose wrinkled a bit and eyes narrowed she channeled a kick toward his common peroneal and tossed her sword the short distance from right hand to left, gripping the handle she swept the blade toward his staff, hoping to incapacitate his staff from defending against the kick.
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Post by Jefardi Owwaullis on Jul 12, 2012 17:17:07 GMT -5
Moving his midnight black staff to defend he caught the sword with the mid-section of the staff, and the foot with the right end of the staff, that section close to the ground. Catching both attacks, Jefardi then used his left had to pull back on the staff, in effect making it a lever, with the sword as the middle point, the balancing point. The idea was to push back on Ajay's foot making her fall backwards, and he pushed back against her foot after it connected with the staff.
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Post by Ajjiaka Thundder on Jul 12, 2012 17:28:35 GMT -5
Ajjiaka fell backwards, landing on the ground on her back with a thud. She burst out laughing and rolled over, pushing herself back up with her knees. She spun around, eyes sparkling with amusement.
Ajjiaka was the kind of girl to take chances, and be just fine when they failed. She was the one who ran into a group of warriors, swinging her sword wildly and hoping for the best.
She took a step back and then jumped forward, bringing her sword down, diagonally She made eye contact with him, holding his gaze, barely looking at the weapons. Her blue green eyes reached into the depths of his eyes. She held her sword once more in her right hand, and her left hand out, defensively and with the intent on grabbing the staff if it was swung in that area.
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Post by Jefardi Owwaullis on Jul 12, 2012 17:41:55 GMT -5
Jefardi blocked with the middle third of his staff, catching the sword against its' hardened surface. The jump added enough power into the blow it actually pushed the staff back, bending Jefardi's arms inward. Not a pleasant feeling, he thought to himself. He then pushed the sword back so it went over Ajay's head. However the his staff was also in a position where he couldn't strike anything with it. So he did the only thing he had left.
Jefardi head butted Ajay hard enough, that after the blow he staggered back, and only managed to stay up by leaning on his staff.
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Post by Ajjiaka Thundder on Jul 12, 2012 17:50:37 GMT -5
Ajay felt his head make contact with her body, she took the full force and grumbled, lowering her sword and putting a hand over the contact area, she frowned and glared at Jefardi.
”ugh… ouch……… rude.”
She lifted an eyebrow forcing back the emotion of the actually blunt pain it had caused. She reached within, centering herself. She closed her eyes for a moment but it seemed like longer. She centered everything and focused all of the pain into one single action. Her eyes flicked open. She dropped her sword, walked over to Jefardi, and aimed a punch right at his shoulder, full of the anger and pain associated with the head butt. She knew it wouldn’t hurt him much, if at all, but at least I would ease her pain and give her a focus.
When she withdrew her fist, she was sure it had hurt her more than him. She smiled at him and grabbed him gently, pulling him against her. she wrapped her arms around his shoulders gazing into his eyes. She glanced at his lips for a second then back into his eyes, reconsidering the move, instead she pushed her forehead against his and closed her eyes gently.
"You're better than me, that's for sure."
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Post by Jefardi Owwaullis on Jul 12, 2012 18:05:19 GMT -5
The gold that had been his skin during their little sparring session, vanished in less then a few seconds the moment she grabbed and then...and then... she was going to do something but stopped. He had a guess, but his head hurt way too much from the last thing he had done, and now his shoulder hurt. He could of sworn that Ajay had just nearly tried to...wait...no...did she? Maybe the stars in his head made it seem like she leaned into him like that. No wait her head was up against his head, so it maybe it was trick of the light?
Regardless he said shakily, "...uh...ya...I practice a lot....and I have to use it a lot....."
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Post by Ajjiaka Thundder on Jul 12, 2012 18:12:07 GMT -5
Ajjiaka smiled, the dull pain still there.
”come sit down.”
She took his hand and led him to the lounge and gestured to the couch.
”I’ll get us some water.”
She left for what would seem like a long time and then returned with water. She sat beside him, handing him the water, she touched his head.
”Why did you do that anyway? You didn't exactly think it through did you?”
Her body throbbed dully, but she was able to ignore most of the pain. She ran her fingers very gently across his head where he had hit her.
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Post by Jefardi Owwaullis on Jul 12, 2012 18:22:28 GMT -5
He sat down and waited for about five minutes before Ajay came in with some water.
Accepting the glass of water, he downed it fast.
Jefardi answered with, "well...its kind of like...what I would naturally do as a follow up attack....it was basically instinct."
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Post by Ajjiaka Thundder on Jul 12, 2012 18:28:28 GMT -5
Ajjiaka drank half her glass of water. She reached her hand out, gently taking his chin into her hand, then leaned forward and gently pressed her lips to the spot on his head that had made contact with her head.
”Feel better?”
She asked casually as she released him, leaning back on the couch and taking another sip of water, focusing her eyes elsewhere, away from Jefardi, but watching him out of the corner of her eye.
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Post by Jefardi Owwaullis on Jul 12, 2012 18:33:29 GMT -5
The moment her lips touched his forehead, his skin turned to a very white silver, rather fast, much to his embarressment. Then words started to fail him. After a few moments he was able to get out a quick response of,
"uhh....ya....um...thanks...."
he still couldn't help but to blush into a deep red, his face making an odd contrast to the rest of his skin.
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Post by Ajjiaka Thundder on Jul 12, 2012 18:37:51 GMT -5
Ajjiaka smiled and looked at him.
”Anything wrong, Jefardi?”
She proceeded to lean against him, head gently on his shoulder. She couldn’t stop smiling. Surely she looked much like an idiot, grinning as she was. Based on his blushing and silver skin she was safe to assume her move hadn’t offended him at least, which was what she wanted to avoid.
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Post by Jefardi Owwaullis on Jul 12, 2012 20:11:41 GMT -5
Ajay laid her head on Jefardi's shoulder gently. She had a big grin on her face, despite the ridiculous amount of pain her forehead was probably in. It was a really big smile, he could literally feel the facial muscles stretch against his shoulder.
Was anything wrong?
That was a good question.
Was there anything wrong here? This existence, for the past 48 hours had been quite nice and peaceful. It seemed like something had to go wrong now, given how the galaxy seemed to have it out for him for the past few months. Maybe the galaxy was giving back for all the harm it had done to him, all the beatings, muggings, stabbings, the list goes on and on and on...
Closing his eyes, mostly to stop the visions of violence that had been enacted upon him over the course of the last few months stop.
After a moment of centering himself, his skin colour changed to a rather decidedly golden hue.
Oh right, he thought, Ajay had asked me a question.
Thinking for a moment, not about the past few months, but right now, he found something that was wrong.
"Actually there is something wrong Ajay"
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Post by Ajjiaka Thundder on Jul 12, 2012 20:22:34 GMT -5
Ajjiaka looked up at him, startled. Making sure she stopped herself from thinking she asked slowly.
”What’s wrong?”
There was an edge to her question, his skin was gold. Had she screwed up again?
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Post by Jefardi Owwaullis on Jul 12, 2012 20:40:27 GMT -5
"Please don't call me Jefardi, its long, and as interesting as it sounds, it's a bit formal. PLease call me Jef" he asked of her, with a smile on his face.
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