[OOM] Tython.

[stuck_mynock]

They made planetfall a couple of hours ago.

So far, things have mostly just been messing around. They landed in a forest clearing, a little way from a deep but gently flowing river and a waterfall.

Which is where Atton is now. There's a pile of his clothes on a rock by the river, but he's nowhere to be seen, most of the time. Occasionally, he bobs up from under the water, peers around, and goes back down again.

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[guppy_sandhu]

"So they are testing it on people." Guppy says quietly.

[will_scarlett]

"Aye, 'orrible thing to do."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"Were. This hologram is many millenia old, from the Infinite Empire. The Rakata kept slaves on most of the worlds they went to - s'hardly a stretch for them to use them as test subjects, too," Atton says, grim. "C'mon. We have what we came for."

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy moves over to Atton, walking quietly next to him.

"Actually I think my finger might be broken. Sorry."

[will_scarlett]

"Need to me to carry aught?"

Its nice to be out of here so quickly.

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"Nothing t'carry," Atton says, taking Guppy's hand and healing his finger. "C'mon. If we're lucky, no bounty hunters'll have found us."

[guppy_sandhu]

"Thanks." Guppy says, giving Atton's hand a squeeze once his is healed up.

"Are they still after us?" he asks worriedly.

[will_scarlett]

"Aye, good. Probably, 'unters dinna give up till they've their prize or coin."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

Atton nods, heading towards the exit.

"Yeah. The only way to stop bounty hunters once you've had a contract taken out on you is t'remove their employer from the equation. That way, they won't get paid, no motivation t'keep chasing you."

[guppy_sandhu]

"But how do they follow us through hyperspace? How do they see where we're going?"

[will_scarlett]

"Aye, or 'ave others looked too?"

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"They can't track us through hyperspace, not without a tracking device. But bounty hunters have a way of finding people, and if they're working with Enzu Koren, they already know where we're going. Remember, Koren's already found this technology, which means we're essentially retracing his steps. He knows where we're going to go."

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy nods, not liking the sound of that at all.

[will_scarlett]

"Then we'd best move fast, aye?"

At least its downhill to the ship.

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"Aye," Atton says, hurrying down the corridor.

[guppy_sandhu]

"Would he be likely to send them to the one ahead of us?"

[will_scarlett]

"Depends if 'e knows the order we're goin' in."

Will says over his shoulder as he runs.

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"Or if he has enough hunters to dispatch one to each planet."

[guppy_sandhu]

"He doesn't seem to have anything better to do."

[will_scarlett]

"Then let's na give 'im a chance to catch us."

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

"Yeah."

They reach the entrance, and Atton hurries out, stopping when he sees somebody a little way away.

A Twi'lek woman, with a cylindrical device in one hand, armed to the teeth with various guns.

"Found you!" She chirps.

Atton frowns. Dourly, to Will and Guppy: "I knew talkin' about bounty hunters was a bad idea."

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy grabs Will and Atton close to him, and presses the screech on his stun gun, followed by an attempt to stun the woman.

[will_scarlett]

Will draws his blaster and points it at her,

"What's the quickest way out o''ere?"

[stuck-mynock.livejournal.com]

The bounty hunter yelps, clapping her hands over her ears, dropping the cylinder in the process as she scrambles out of the way of Guppy's stun bolt.

The cylinder beeps, then extends spirals of red, and lets out a long, shrill sound.

Bugs, as large as a dogs, with bright red eyes, start crawling out of the building.

"Go, my laigreks! Devour their eyeballs!" The hunter yells. "Or whatever else satisfies your dietary requirements!"

[guppy_sandhu]

"Oh, that's a laigrek." Guppy says, distributing stun and blaster bolt around at anything moving that isn't Atton or Will.