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morgynleri"That's the second time you've named me Jedi." Qui-Gon still has no sense that she's Force-sensitive. "What makes you think that?"
"I don't just make runs in the Outer Rim, Jedi. I know when I see one." She shrugs. "You don't hide very well, anyway. Now, you can pay the price I named, or you can try some other pilot, but as I said, you won't find a better price, nor a safer ship."
There is more to those words than lies on the surface of them, but at the moment, Qui-Gon needs the transport, and the Force is whispering that this is indeed the best chance they have. The best chance of what is less clear, but he'll take what he can. "The ten thousand we can pay in advance. The rest will have to wait until we arrive on Coruscant, and an exact accounting can be achieved, if you do not have to return immediately upon delivering us to our destination."
"I can wait a day, but you'd best be swift about those credits, or I'll take it out of your ship and what you leave behind with it."
"Very well, Captain ... ?" Padmé responds before Qui-Gon does, and the pilot chuckles, tilting her head in acknowledgement of the implied authority.
"You can call me Pilot, or Captain. Either one will suffice."
"Don't you have a name?"
"Yes." The pilot glances at Qui-Gon again, something flickering through her expression too quickly to name. "My ship is the Twisted Passage, and that's all the more name you need."
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"I don't just make runs in the Outer Rim, Jedi. I know when I see one." She shrugs. "You don't hide very well, anyway. Now, you can pay the price I named, or you can try some other pilot, but as I said, you won't find a better price, nor a safer ship."
There is more to those words than lies on the surface of them, but at the moment, Qui-Gon needs the transport, and the Force is whispering that this is indeed the best chance they have. The best chance of what is less clear, but he'll take what he can. "The ten thousand we can pay in advance. The rest will have to wait until we arrive on Coruscant, and an exact accounting can be achieved, if you do not have to return immediately upon delivering us to our destination."
"I can wait a day, but you'd best be swift about those credits, or I'll take it out of your ship and what you leave behind with it."
"Very well, Captain ... ?" Padmé responds before Qui-Gon does, and the pilot chuckles, tilting her head in acknowledgement of the implied authority.
"You can call me Pilot, or Captain. Either one will suffice."
"Don't you have a name?"
"Yes." The pilot glances at Qui-Gon again, something flickering through her expression too quickly to name. "My ship is the Twisted Passage, and that's all the more name you need."
Crossposted: Tumblr