They made it out of the city without much trouble after that. In an hour, they traveled for about an hour before reaching the shuttle that was hidden between two large sand dunes. Asmodeus casually ripped off the giant laser cannon from the side of the landspeeder with the Force and carried the sleeping girl up the ramp.
"Is it really worth the effort?" Eldra looked at the cannon and complained, "It's not like we need the money."
"We might not need the money, but why should I pass up some free shit? I'd take the whole car if I could fit it. Unfortunately we didn't bring the TY."
"Master, since we're going to keep the Sheathipede, you should let me outfit it with some weapons." Shmi walked over and sat in the pilot seat very familiarly. Then started to take off without asking permission.
"Sorry." Eldra sighed and sat down cross-legged on the floor. Those metal legs under her pants 'clinked' together with a somewhat hollow sound.
"It's my fault. You warned me, but I just…"
"We all wanted to go to town. It's not a big deal. I mean, fuck-loads of people died, including lots of innocent men, women and children, not to mention the property damage-"
"Alright, stop!" Eldra covered her face with her blue hands as her Lekku writhed. She wore her old black headdress. Those white Jedi Robes were covered in soot and various colors of blood.
"Just heal your new slave girl!"
"I'm working on it." Asmodeus didn't deny it. After all, with how fucked up Tatooine was, practically everyone was either a slave or a slave owner. A poor slave owner might be living in harsher conditions than the slave of a rich person. Especially on this desert hell-world.
"What's your name?"
The girl's purple bug-eyes were always 'open', even in an unconscious state. But he could 'sense' when she was awake or asleep by the thoughts that swept out of her mind and into his… That tiny mouth opened and closed a few times, eventually she whispered in a high-pitched voice.
"Ra… Ra… Master…"
"Ra or Rara?"
"Ra only…" She coughed a bit and winced in pain. Asmodeus looked at her twisted arm and the metal stuck in her side.
"Hold on a little longer. We're gonna go to a… Doctor of sorts."
"Master… Scared… So dark… So cold…"
He looked down at all the blood covering her damaged clothes and sighed. Without thinking too much more, he used the Force to carefully hold the metal spike where it was and then ripped away all the wet clothing. Revealing her slightly scaly green body. One thing he immediately noticed though was that she looked a lot older than he expected. Just… Malnourished.
"Are you happy or disappointed?" Eldra smiled wryly as she watched the 'boy' suck up all the blood on the girl's green body and toss it over on the carpet nearby. Then an overly excited cleaning droid shaped like a disk, rushed over and started getting to work.
"Because I left a real human child to die and saved a malnourished slave girl instead?" Asmodeus shrugged, "She's still young. I mean, technically she's probably a lot older than 'me'. Or is she? I don't know Rodian maturity times."
"It's not much different from humans and Twi'leks. Maybe a bit faster, but it's about the same. This kid is probably not going to grow much more than this…"
The girl was only about 4'6", which is part of the reason he thought she was a child. She's a Rodian, so her facial features are not a great indication from the 'human' perspective of Asmodeus. The other reason is actually just the Force. It told him, 'Save child' and 'innocent'. Maybe not in so many 'words', but just the general feelings.
"The other kid might have lived if I tried harder. But… It is what it is. That whole street, I only felt two people worth saving. The others might not have deserved to die, but they didn't deserve to live as much."
"You don't feel guilty at all?" Eldra sneered, looking over towards the cockpit, "Even Shmi…"
"Have you ever heard the story of Darth Vader the Kind?"
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