Ahsoka was currently in her bed trying to fall asleep, but her deep worry for her missing and possibly injured friend seemed to keep her on the edge.

  She was very tired from the intetle that occurred not eveandard ho...

  Of course, she mao sleep here and there. However, every time she fell asleep, she was forced to wake up, thanks to her imagination running wild. Creating many horror sarios that slowly, but surely, began to seep into her subscious in the form of haunting nightmares.

  Just like it happened now. Her skin was covered in a cold yer of sweat as she let out a tired sigh, realizing that this was going to be a very long night.

  “I only hope that she will be all right...” — Ahsoka whispered to no one in particur, then once again closed her eyes.

  With that thought on her mind, she turowards the wall one more time and hoped to finally fall asleep food.

  ~oOo~

  (Music starting from this part: https:///watch?v=cjhpmoZS7ts )

  Meanwhile, a certain gray twi’lek girl a few light years away was having the time of her life with a bunch of pirates in their ship’s tina. They were currently pying battle chess, for who knows how long at this point.

  It started as a simple game, then turned into a fierce local championship after they discovered that she even had the extremely rare Mandalorian, space pirate and smuggler skins for the game... Of course, the championship never really stopped the ongoing party pying out in the background.

  Just a few minutes ago, a table was broken in two sine of the drunken pirates jumped on top of it to dah the attractive weequay girl who was already dang on top of it.

  The lucky pirate girl, so to say, didn’t really appreciate his advances and pushed him away. Unfortunately, she uimated how drunk said pirate was. Which resulted in him slipping on some food aually falling on his back with quite the momentum.

  The poor table gave out uhe weight almost immediately. But not before the drunk fool could catto the girl’s arm in the middle of his fall, pulling her along. This desperate move resulted with both of them ending up as a pile of limbs on the ground while various ptes, leftover food and drinks, violently spshed above their heads like powerful waves of a raging sea swallowing a sinking ship.

  As expected, the event roused waves hter from the pirates who have witnessed everything. However, the unfortunate pair in the ter of undesirable attention didn’t seem to share in the jovialty and after they mao crawl out of the table’s broken remains, pushing and cursing each other along the way.

  Our drunken hero, with his wounded pride, attempted to reeducate the onlookers via delivering a punto the first one’s stomach, who came across him. Sihen there was a small scale bar fight going on in one of the many ers of the rge tina.

  ‘Hondo was sitting on his pirate throg the show with a satisfied smile stretched across his face, as if being here and watg this anized chaos was the best possible pce to be iire gaxy... or even the universe.‘

  ‘He had Pilf resting on his shoulder, and I got the other one on top of my head. He was called Pikk Mukmuk.’

  ‘Both of them were proud members of the Kowakian monkey-lizard race. Oh, and above that, they were actual members of the crew.’

  ‘I was only allowed to roam free if one of them was watg over me... It was quite a strauation, to be entirely ho.’

  ‘The little buggers are pretty intelligent. I am still surprised at how many words they seem to uand, and since I won our battle chess match against Hondo, which started this entire sario.’

  ‘He loaned me Pikk as a reward for my eay here. It was… nice of him…’

  ‘Regarding the game itself, it was not an easy game at all. Hondo pyed very well, but he had no ce against a few thousand years of chess experie was one of my ied powers that wasn’t any weaker because of my current body.’

  ‘I gave my st order to one of my troopers on the board and watched it with satisfa as the figurine executed it fwlessly, causio win aname.’

  ‘My oppo was, for the record, a red skin-colored twi’lek woman. One of the few twi’lek members of the current crew, as most of them were weequays. There was one more twi’lek that I know of, a man this time, and a few humans too.’

  ‘The young woman realized her mistake as I ered her king, accepting her defeat with tact. She smiled at me mischievously, then suddenly leaned over the board and gave me a light kiss...’

  ‘I felt a wave of heat surge into my face, turning it to a simir color as her skin tone was.’

  ‘My brain spasmed as it tried to uand the situation.’

  ‘… Okay… What the fuck?!’

  ‘The small crowd around us began to cheer loudly.’

  “That was your reward, little jedi. I heard that they hold you on a tight leash in that order of yours.” — ‘She wi me teasingly, suddenly standing up from the table and leaving me behind with my fusion.’

  “… Eh?”

  ‘I gently touched my lips. That felt strangely hot, realising with both intrigue and a sense of annoyahat the red girl stole my first kiss.’

  ‘At the same time, I felt a surge of memories leaping into my head, along with a few hundred erotic images from the so-called darker and more suppressed py mind...’

  ‘I panicked. In my panic, I attempted to cover my eyes, only to realize that everything was happening inside my head, and my mental eyes were a lot harder to cover than my physical ones.’

  ‘My appareion seemed to provide a great deal of eaio the nearby pirates. Who were currently ughing at my predit like hungry hyenas.’

  ‘Yes, I ied those kinds of memories too, and to top it off, from both genders... I tried to hastily suppress those kinds of memories, while the others straight out ughed at my reddened fad slightly twitg leks which were misbehaving from my sheer level of frustration.’

  ‘A gentle force warning caught my attention, drawing my eyes away from those thoughts at the most opportuime.’

  ‘I looked up, and saw a half empty witle flying across the whole room, heading towards an unsuspeg weequay.’

  ‘I reached out with the force to stop the bottle and began to pull it towards me instead, saving the unsuspeg man from a painful surprise.’

  ‘I was actually ag as a proper jedi padawan right now. Not even Master Obi’Wan could raise any objes, in case if he was here.’

  ‘On the crux of my streak of self-sacrifice I decided to save a few more weequays from a strong headache. Some ieral while others in the figurative sense of the word.’

  ‘I caught the bottle out of the air at st and raised it towards my lips with great momentum. Sihe ritual, I had this unnatural craving for alcohol. I thought it was high time to sate such mysterious cravings.’

  ‘I fully inteo look at the bottom of this bottle of liquer directly raising it to my mouth.’

  ‘I was already sensing the aroma of strong booze seeping into my fring nostrils, eyes closing in blissful anticipation.’

  ‘Then I felt a strong grasp closing around my wrist at the st possible moment, just before I could tilt the bottle enough for its tents to spill towards my open mouth.’

  ‘I tried to free my arm, it didn’t budge.’

  ‘A burst of anger came over me, as my highly anticipated moment was all but ruined.’

  ‘My eyes jolted open.’ — Unknown to Nizzal, a glint of yellow was visible in the middle of her pink pupils. — ‘Only to see that Hondo was the ohat stopped my arm...’

  ‘He looked at me with a half smile, falling into a fatherly act as if it was as natural to him as any other.’

  “Now-now... What do we have here, my sweet mother always said, that proper little girls shouldn’t drink alcohol."

  ‘While saying this, he also raised his finger in a lecturing manner.’

  “Oh, e on!” — ‘I whihrowing my dignity aside with a surprising ease.' — “’t a girl have her fun for on a while!”

  ‘This seemed to surprise the man in the red coat. As, it seemed that red was my unlucky color today.’

  ‘Unfortunately, no matter how much I tried to free my arm, his iron like grip didn’t let up.’

  ‘Eventually, my sistent attempts to get out of his grasp seemed to get on his nerves as he blow up in my face.’

  “Stop resisting, fool! You won’t get drunk on my ship, however ughable that statement may sound, not today at least! What good would your presence do if you got drunk? Are you intending to deflect those ser beams towards me? Is that it?”

  “Who are you calling fool? Fool! And… now that you mention it, that doesn’t sound like a bad idea, actually...”

  “Aha, I see what you did there, little hellion. My answer is still no! Give me that bottle, now!”

  ‘He twisted out the bottle from my hand and drank it in a few big gulps while standing over me. The others were ughing around us when they saw my horrified expression.’

  ‘For whatever reason, the sight of my disappearing prize and the strange cohesion of the ughing pirates resulted in a burst of childish desire accumuting in my chest as I shouted at the fool with all the angst of a ten-year-old.’

  “How could you!” — ‘I cried out, feeling genuinely betrayed.’

  ‘My evidently ued rea caused Hondo to actually choke on the drink aed in even mhter from the surrounding people.’

  “Ha hahaha!” — ‘He shouted after spitting some of the liquor straight into one of his men’s face.’

  “I am an evil pirate captain. I do whatever I want! You better learn it, girly! Haha!” — ‘Then he leaned closer to me and said subtly.’ — “I also have an image to uphold, you know?” — ‘With that, he waved towards me desdingly, then added as an afterthought.’ — “Now go and amuse yourself with Pazaak or something, whatever you kids tend to py these days... I have no more time for your childish games. Oh, and you better stop looking for alcohol too, if you don’t want to get spahat’s what I call a real checkmate! HA!”

  ‘My eyes glinted with a strange light in the mids of the r ughter.’

  “Pazaak? Did you say Pazaak?” — ‘I asked, as another wave of long suppressed memories burst into my sciousness, seemingly triggered by that strangely familiar word.'

  ‘Hondo was just about to walk away, but he looked back at me, hearing my new question. Suddenly, there was a new glint in his eyes as well.’

  “Oh, so you know the game? Would you like to py a few rounds then? If you lose, you will owe me a favor. If I lose, I will give you a full bottle of these...” — ‘He raised another of those witles from a nearby table.’

  ‘As my eyes hovered over the full bottle of red tantalizing liquid. I felt my throat became dry as a desert. I swallowed unsciously…’

  ‘My childish impulses overruled my logical deaking as I immediately agreed to the test. Revan was a legendary Pazaak pyer of his time. How could I lose with that much experiender my belt?’

  ~oOo~

  A few mier. In the middle of heavy ughter.

  “That wasn’t fair!” — ‘I shouted at Hondo with an even more betrayed expression in the middle of a bunch of ughing pirates.’

  “Oh, thanks for the praise. I am a pirate captain, you know? The day when I py fairly will be the day I die. Oh, and you didn’t tell me when we made the bet that I couldn’t use my personal deck. You should have used your own instead of pining.”

  “It was stolen by that camity of a droid!” — ‘I lied seamlessly since I couldn’t tell him I actually never pyed the game before, and it was only thanks to my memories from a different person, from a different life that I even knew about it.’

  ‘In my excitement I pletely fet, the fact that Pazaak, to begin with, was a pletely unfair game.’

  ‘To win with a basic deck against a fully equipped ohe ce ractically astronomical. I wasn’t even sure if it was actually doable.’

  “Are y to deny the validity of our bet?” — ‘Hondo asked, with a creased pair of eyebrows.’

  “Arggh....” — ‘I bit into my lower lips as I said.’ — “No... It was valid... just… nevermind. So what do I have to do?”

  “Look at that, boys and girls, a jedi that actually has a bae!” — ‘Stated Hondo, with pride glinting in his eyes. And I realised that the surrounding pirates have stopped ughing.’

  “I am not really a jedi, I already told you!” — ‘I said with a bored tone.’

  “Maybe, but from my perspective, there isn’t that much of a difference. So, bay request, there is this old acquaintanine. Let’s just say, he has a variety of diplomatiions and one of these so-called es wants the help of a trained force sensitive in a so-called serious matter.”

  “The only prerequisite is that the person ’t be an official jedi. I see from your face that you realize how hard it is to find a well-trained force user who is not a jedi. I wish you to take this job after we raided... I meahe spid twi’leks from our current project.”

  “I see, but what good would that do for you?” — ‘I asked, unsure what to think about this request.’

  “Oh, nothing special. You should just tell him that I sent you to repay a debt I owed. His name is Jabba the Hutt, by the way. He is a kind-natured fellow, really he has a soft spot for kids like yourself.” — ‘Hondo added slyly.’

  “Which means that I should expect him to try to chop off my head the moment I appear... or sell me to svers?”

  ‘He took in a sharp breath as if he was shocked by my statement, then instead of a hurtful monologue he offered me a wide toothy grin.’ — “I see you learn quickly. I know that we had something in on the moment I saw you! You are like a long-lost daughter to me. I call you my daughter?”

  ‘I rolled my eyes and said.’ — “Just shut up and die, fool!”

  “Ah, such vulgarity, you wound my feelings… that aside… Sihe cat is already out of the bag… I mean I might have a bit of a debt accumuted and all, but it’s nothing to yourself with.”

  ‘Like hell it is!’

  “I k, and what kind of debt do you owe to him?”

  “Nothing special, I maybe took a smaller loan, and didn’t pay the whole thing back... But, it will be solved by you doing this job, for free, in my name.”

  “Okay... but what am I expected to do in the first pce?” — ‘I at least demanded an expnation for that.’

  “I don’t know for sure, probably some kind of jedi hocus-pocus... Most likely the usual stuff. What else would he need, a force sensitive?”

  “Probably? So you don’t even know that? Wait a minute, ’t I have a say in this?”

  “I won the game, so no.”

  ‘I held my head in desperation. With the growing urge to head bump the damn table which was still covered in those cursed cards. I am never going to py this damn game again’

  “Arggh... curse you...”

  “Ha-ha-ha! Stand in line if you want to curse me, girl. Be wary, the line is quite long... You might just kick the bucket before you get the ce.”

  “But...”

  “Silence... someone is calling me on my unicator.” — ‘He pushed a button, then turned away while saying something I could not hear...’

  ‘Damn Hondo, I will be much more careful with any type of bet with him iure, aime I will definitely win!’

  ‘I promised to myself with appareermination. Not even realizing the tradi in that statement.’

  “Vzzz-vzzz!” — ‘I jumped up from the table, along with a bunch of pirates.’

  ‘There were two bster shots sent into the ceiling as a small cloud of smoke began to slowly desd over the people staying in the room.’

  ‘Everyone looked toward the source of it, already grabbing their ons, but they hadn’t pulled it out yet.’

  ‘The pirates became quite tense, just like I did, as everyone realized that the captain was the one who shot into the ceiling.’

  “Thank you, thank you for your undivided attention, my dear fellows. I just got a report that our spice had finally arrived. I say that it would be rude to make them wait for us, wouldn’t it?”

  ‘There was a tense silen the room. Nobody gave an ao his question. He looked around the room, then suddenly began to shout like a madman.’

  “MOVE YOU SPACERATS! I WANT TO SEE YOUR ASSES ON YOUR POSITIONS IN FULL GEAR IMMEDIATELY!” — ‘He then began to shoot into the ceiling with his already drawn bster pistol in sync with his shouts to quickly disperse the panig crew.’ — “GO GO GO MOVE BASTARDS! HEY, CLAIR!”

  “Yes boss?” — ‘Cir asked after popping up out of nowhere.’

  “Work on the girl, make her look somewhat believable for her act. At least, give her proper clothes, instead of those ms…”

  “You t on me, boss.”

  ‘While I was distracted by the running around pirates. Out of nowhere, I felt a cold shiver run over my back... Did I catch a cold or something? Great, that’s just what I needed... This day is getting worse by the minutes!’