driftfleet | Temper Tempo

Who: Nami and you!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Bloodsport/Iskaulit for you drinkers out there.
When: Now-ish

[Nami's been in a bad mood of late. Mostly it's to do with Sascha and trying to shove her own feelings down and trying to deal with it in a responsible way because some jackass luck of the draw happened to make her Captain. Hooray! The bite has healed enough it just looks ugly instead of actually hurting (it itches, thanks so much for that), so she still keeps a loose bandage over the top. No big deal. She'll get over it. There's not much choice.

She works off her grouchiness at the bar in bits and pieces. She was doing pretty well until a box turned up in her bedroom addressed to Captain Nami.]

One piece--

[No, that's not a pun I swear. The feed clicks on to Nami's furious face, tapping the screen with one section of blue metal piping that a handful of people might find familiar.]

Problems with shipping? Delays in processing? IT'S A MATCHED SET! Why would you even break this up!? If you've lost the other parts I'm going to--

[RANT USELESSLY AT EVERYONE APPARENTLY. She shuts her mouth with a snap, fingers wrapped around the climatact piece in a crushing grip, before she suddenly smiles sweetly.]

Thank you so much for finally processing my claim, Diamond. Or whoever. At this rate I'll only have to submit those forms another eight times!

Don't think I don't know you're doing this on purpose. [And finally she pulls back, tapping the piece in hand before pointing it in the vague direction of her closed door with a dark mutter.] I bet it doesn't even work r--

[FWOOM.

...that'd be the sudden howl of wind punching through the air much like this, only more powerful and far less gracefully, given Nami went flying in the other direction with a yelp. There's a long moment of silence, punctuated by the sound of several maps falling off the walls, and the broadcast picks up nothing but the visuals of a room that looks like a small tornado just went through it.

......
......]

...needs calibration.

[Ow.]

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[You can also catch her at the Iskaulit. Not on shift tonight, kthx. She's just nursing a drink in the corner and glaring holes through the table.]

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Go big or go home, I believe.

[ All his enemies tend to be that way. Maul, especially. ]

It's Hux.

[She gives a grin of appreciation at that. But.]

Hux, huh. I'll keep that in mind. I know there are a handful of people in the Fleet who like to stir up trouble, so it's always good to know ahead of time who they might be.

I appreciate the backup.

[ As much as he loves Anakin and Ahsoka . . . he doesn't trust their temper. ]

[Trusting Nami's temper isn't much better.]

Such as it is. Best I can offer is keeping an eye out. Any of his army here?

No. And I doubt he'll foster recruits. He has a distorted view of our history, but his actions and words speak for himself.

[She gives him a thoughtful look.]

Is he a bad guy or an opposing side?

[ That's the question isn't it? Obi-Wan tends to shy away from labels like that. He knows that Anakin uses them to separate themselves . . . but Obi-Wan couldn't do the same. ]

Both. For now.

[Nami smiles faintly. She's a pirate and Hux is a general, and she likes Obi Wan besides. There's a distinct bias there.]

I gotta say he can't be causing you too much trouble right now if you still want to trade for some of the chaos on my ship.

Why, what's been happening on yours?

...Sascha, mostly.

I heard a little about that.

Mm, hard to miss. He's back to normal, now. But I haven't seen him since-- he's kind of barricaded himself in Bigby's room.

[Her nose wrinkles. Bigby himself has been kind of irritating about it.]

Give it time. Some things can't be processed easily.

By more than Sascha. He caused a lot of damage with his friendships. I think they'll all come to terms with it eventually, but some of the attitudes surrounding it make it more complicated than it has to be.

I think that might have more to do with what than who.

...probably. [Sigh. Bigby's a complication she wasn't expecting and should've.] It definitely doesn't help that not everyone involved is human.

No, I suppose it does not.

[...hmm.]

How well do you know Sascha? [She knows there was a conversation shortly after the bedroom incident, but...]

Fairly well, though he's made better friends by now.

[ Obi-Wan has helped him out, but also kept his distance. Sascha needs people to be closer and he can't give that. ]

Yeahhh, I think he may have upset some of those better friends by now. [She hesitates.]

He does seem to listen to you, though. I'm not sure how much it sinks in, but I remember that conversation from-- uh. A while ago.

[Way to narrow it down, Nami.]

[ He nods. ]

I'll talk to him.

I appreciate it. You'll probably be nicer about it than I will be.

I'm sure you can be nice when the opportunity arises.

Always for a profit. [Grin. Joking, but.]

I just don't think he'd appreciate my kind of caring, is all.

[Because right now he's doing what amounts to sulking and hiding, and she has no patience to deal with either one, even if she's concerned.]

I think any kind of caring never hurts, but I'll take your word for it.

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