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On the city-planet of Elsul, a Sith sits outside a cafe sipping a fruity drink. She's guarded by a heavy battle droid (gathering more than a few startled stares from passerby, which the Sith and the droid both ignore) and accompanied by a servant droid covered in enameled flowers, who's scrolling through a list of local tourist attractions on a datapad and occasionally presenting options to her companions for discussion.
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attack-the-darkness
...Anyway. What the seventy-seven Corellian hells is this shit coming into sensory range on the ship that allegedly contains her mission partners? ...Okay, to be fair, her sensory sweeps do show her mission partners aboard, but...
That's gotta be a Sith.
She doesn't like this.
It doesn't take long for the other ship to hail her, and the astromech with the vocoder announces that the Nightfall Spectrum is en route to drop off her companions, would she like to speak to them?
attack-the-darkness
Why yes, she would -
"Why is there what is unmistakeably a Sith's Force presence about to dock with our ship --"
matters-of-protocol
"You may recall that this is Lord Pradnakt's personal conveyance, Knight Chion," interjects the protocol droid before anyone else has a chance. "Consider contemplating gratitude that she allowed it to be used for this purpose more than was strictly necessary. The Cloak has room spare in the barracks; it is therefore not obligatory to make this transfer in the slightest."
what-we-do
"Stand down, Knight Chion. We are not in any danger except of you flying off the handle, being as the Sith you are seeing is presently indisposed and sequestering herself."
what-we-do
Master Ries is not going to mention Darth Kalbetis, who is absolutely not indisposed but sure has nonetheless sequestered herself.
what-we-do
Master Ries shrugs. "I, for one, hardly have any intention of stabbing her, at the moment. It seems like it would be rather counterproductive."
attack-the-darkness
...They'd better be lying about that. Sith don't have friends, Sith don't have allies, Sith have, at best, tools - and if these Jedi have forgotten that they're unfit for this mission as far as she's concerned!
what-we-do
Master Ries just stares at her through the holocomm. "I can assure you, Knight Chion, that we are operating with all due caution." It's just that her idea of caution is rather to spring an ambush.
what-we-do
"...Quite." And her reaction to Rafiik's plans will be rather unpredictable, without careful planning in and of itself to steer the reaction productively. Kriff.
"Lord Pradnakt says it's reasonable of people to be suspicious of Sith; there's usually good reason to be."
matters-of-protocol
"...As a droid of a class rated for management of interpersonal relations, that suspicion was not born of reason but of pure, unthinking habit. It would not so resist the evidence, otherwise.
"Not that it is begrudged, Masters and Knights Jedi - but truly, one might hope you have a plan beyond letting her stew to the point of stabbing someone unprovoked."
matters-of-protocol
"Why are you remotely considering trusting the personality assessment of a Sith's protocol droid, it could be a horrible trap," she deadpans. "Meditate upon it. That's what you do, is it not?"