Fortune Favors The Fool

Muun Song

[...]”Gentlebeings and Sly”, she started slowly with a lopsided smirk on her features, bobbing her head around the table. Her words, intoning the most reputably cruel Sullustan gave a more relaxed chuckled from the gathered. Muun knew she had a very charming quality about her. Added that to her slanted honey brown eyes, her oriental looks of the Epicanthix and Human mix blood and the inky black mass of her hair that stuck to her features from the sweat that trickled down her neck.

The cantina was warm and she was packed close with creatures who either smelled bad or looked worse. She knew she was treading down a very slippery path. Hence the perspiration. It was a damn good reason, a faint voice said in her head.

”We've come to know each others during these hard years, some of us even consider each others as comrades if not friends. Except Sly...” She always made sure that Sly had a special treatment in her speeches. Sly was not sly for no reason. The ugly Sullustan with just as ugly scar running across his flappy jowl had a horribly long memory and cruel ways to remind people of that. She had seen Sly in action. Even some of the pirates around Ord Mantell feared Sly's ship.

”I think I can speak on behalf of quite a few of us when I say that we need to stick together – especially now under this pressure from the Empire and the local forces. Ord Mantell is shifting its colors under our feet. It's struggling to remain independent. We are struggling to remain independent. We stick together, pool our resources together, give one another a hand if needed and stay out of each other's way if need be. We can do this. We are doing this.” She oozed slowly back on her seating, the same lazy manner she appeared to do most things around these people. Of course most of these people knew her and knew she was anything but slow. But it never hurt to paint an easy but charming picture of her. Most of the heads of the smugglers bobbed in agreement. A few seemed still dubious, glancing at one another but the situation had been diffused. She was happy for that, at least. [...]