"I was leaning Maw Installation, but maybe we should meet up with Chuk before you are super dead."

"Ah, yes. Tarkin's pet project, not as secret as he hoped. A wise choice."

"I'll be fine, it's not the longest I've ever been awake or the most drugs I've ever taken."

"That is reckless even by Jedi standards."

"Fuck you," she tries to say, for absolutely no good reason, but her voice is slurring. 

She gets a grip. Hard.

"Do you know where to find Chuk?"

"Right so Centre Point, and space...probably not narcan it doesn't sound like the pain killers are specifically causing breathing problems.

I have ways to get a hold of her, but don't know her current location and you look fucking bad.

I also suspect you need longer term help, but that is an after detox and sleep problem."

Now is incredibly not the time, but I want to try the Imperial stack.

And Spice. Wait no I think they use slaves to make that.

Oh and tabac before nicotine withdrawal gets serious.

I don't really like pain killers, but I wonder if any of theirs beat penta for people who insist on lethal injection.

She's welcome to, Mara has lots. The really good custom ones aren't available any more because of fucking Skywalker. The stack is mostly a complex custom amphetamine derivative, a proprietary molecule normally used to treat narcolepsy, some dopaminergics for motivation, an erythropoietin compound, anabolic steroids, and some complicated exercise chemistry wizardry. Oh, and an antiemetic, obviously. Side effects include strokes, heart attacks, and fulminant liver failure. And technically psychosis, insomnia and extreme anxiety, but those are skill issues. 

(It also makes it difficult to touch the Force, but Mara doesn't know that.)

Right. Her objective here was to protect Karrde. That's done, Thrawn has bigger problems now! 

So now her operational objective is -

 -

Kill Luke Skywalker?

Weird, she doesn't really care any more. 

"Sure. Get hold of Chuk. I'll be fine."

...Ready a neurosurgery droid and hepatic/cardiac cybernetics as well, immediately. 

"I am not sure if this is the best time to try them. I do have protocols on testing new stacks. But all of those side effects are manageable by my existing systems, though conversely I already have elevated baseline tendencies towards psychosis, insomnia, and anxiety.

Honestly it doesn't seem that much more advanced than the Lilitu stack, but also part of the anti-psychosis protocols is just getting rotated out when I start getting delusional. I probably could push on for quite a while if I was allowed to.

Also, what class of pain killers, and seriously do you have tobacco in this galaxy?"

The good kind where it takes pretty inventive torture to get anything out of you but you have to check yourself for broken toes you haven't noticed and things. Yes, they do. 

"Seriously get medical treatment, and do they not have water boarding in this galaxy or do they work for that. Because pretty impressive if so.

Oh also Mama needs smoko."

Waterboarding doesn't actually hurt very much, it just makes you afraid, and it is not Imperial policy for people not to be afraid. 

"Right but you can still get people to confess to 9/11 that way. On the other hand... wait not getting nerd sniped. Go get fucking medical treatment."

"What, no, we were meeting up with Chuk - why do I care about that - never mind, ignore me, I'm just distracted. Give me a moment. I don't want medical attention." 

"See if you were lucky enough not to be of cosmic significance I would probably respect that but."

Ah. A number of things do begin to become clear. 

"What the hell do you mean."

"You show up all over Legends, lots of prophecy footprint from being a force user and stuff.

So I can't respect your request."

Her reflexes aren't the best right now but she's still pretty hard to hit with an axe, of all things. She can make the door in seconds and then disappear. 

If she wants to. 

It's hard to remember wanting anything. 

"I'm literally restrained, and trying to do the opposite of hitting you with an axe.

Can we just get some medical treatment in here?
Including some non-hallucinated tobacco? "

Right yes of course, uh - 

It's an odd request but yes, there is tabac on board. Is Jade competent to put it to her lips or is she about to collapse. 

Nobody asked you. 

Her hands don't even tremble. 

*she shudders for a second before regaining composure*

"Thanks doll."