Citadel Station looms large ahead of them, slowly orbiting Telos and casting a broad shadow over the blasted surface below. The Ebon Hawk comes in for a landing in the hangar they're directed to, setting down light as a feather and powering down with barely a complaint. Uthuar and Sharra had done good work on her, with T3-M4's help.
"Oh wow, I've never even heard of that. I mean, I've only been to Riosa and Telos before, though. Maybe uncle will know about them?" He sends the address! "Tell him I sent you, okay? Oh- I'm Genth!"
"Genth! I'm Sharra." She sends him 5 creds! "No one is gonna be creepy and gross and - did you know that a group of guys tried to sell me into slavery. My boy said it's 'coz I'm pretty and I'm really good with mechanics but it was. So scary. I'm so lucky - I was looking into the killer droids and I thought maybe it was coming from these droids that we found out in space on a derelict and I was poking them and I got them working! And then they told me that the other other droid was an assassin! A protocol droid. That has to be like. The most evil. Apart from a nanny droid, right? Because they're supposed to help you."
"Not even! It was on Peragus! They were awful and they shot me! Look," she says, pulling her jacket down to show him scar. "With a mining laser. I'm so lucky my boy escaped from lock-up and saved me and the droids helped me escape on the derelict. They even put my name on it. I have a ship!!!"
"He's the best pilot in the galaxy. He swooped in and got us out of there. I would have been so dead," she says, smiling down at him. Kisses!
The teenager makes a face and looks down at his datapad instead of watching them make out.
This is fine, because they arrive at the security station shortly afterwards, and the officer with them starts chivvying them out of the transport.
Sharra waves goodbye to Genth, promising to visit his uncle's shop and to message him later so he can look at her ship!
She receives enthusiastic waves in return!
And then their officer is leading them up the stairs into a small waiting room above the landing pad. Inside, a droid secretary buzzes through to the office of the security head, opening the door for them to enter after receiving permission.
Atton keeps an eye on all the officers they pass - not many, actually, just a human woman who passes them on her way down the stairs, their own officer, and a man working on something on a terminal in the waiting room - and any obvious exits. There aren't a lot of those, either. An unknown pair of doors, probably leading further inside, the door they came in through, and the office door. There are no windows.
There's one window, in this office, but it's firmly held shut and likely made of duraplast, so not easy to bust out of.
Also in this office is the security head himself, who is stood behind his desk to the side of his chair watching them enter the room.
"About time you got here," he says, "Limber, you're dismissed," he adds to the officer who had escorted them.
The Head of Security. Sharra takes in his very serious, very dour vibe and- she keeps playing and steps slightly behind Atton. She's very intimidated!
He waits until the door closes to turn his gaze properly on them- on her.
"Padawan Sharra Garon, was it?"
He stares at her for a long moment...
"You know you're in a great deal of danger, Padawan Garon? Your image is all over the bounty boards, and with that Exchange bounty on Jedi scum are crawling out of the cracks and crevices and all the sith-spawning swamps in the galaxy to find you."
She wraps her arms around herself. "I don't know how they got that holo, my master -" she stops, and pushes forward with her words, with difficulty. "She said that she destroyed everything."
"Well, you'll be comforted to know it's the only image of you to be found anywhere on the 'net.
"Regardless, your altercation on Peragus station has left us with some questions, which need to be answered for the safety of the Peragus and Citadel. I'd like to offer you the Republic's protection, as well, but at the very least you will have to stay on Citadel Station until we've concluded our investigation."
"-wait- not that we don't appreciate the protection, but Sharra sent everything we found out about the whole situation on Peragus to Uthuar, the head mechanic, before we left. What do you need from us now?"
"Unfortunately, the head mechanic has been arrested for collusion with those thugs who attacked Padawan Garon. We have the information you provided, but we'll need more than just the word of your droids, given the holoimage and voiceprint evidence we have that he was involved."
"Uthuar had nothing to do with it! We have - the HK droid that was sabotaging everything, we did think it might have been impersonating someone - it got onto our ship. We could give it to you? The memory bank is still intact."
"Ah!" He comes around the desk, "Yes, let's have that brought down to the station right away. I take it you disabled it?" He looks between the two of them.