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It was a quick jaunt, between the Piercer and his own ship. Of course, Valio considered just flying off. But even he couldn't do something quite as dramatic as that. He grabbed the money from a hidden point under the metal floorboards, stuffed it in a pocket and made his way to the Shy Mynock...

"I'm aware of what he was offering and I need you to understand your Captain is better than most," Valio told Peshk, sticking around in the galley, "but in spite of his intentions I won't align myself with any Hutt but a repentant Hutt." He stood, leaning on his cane with both hands as he spoke...

"The only money I will take from the Hutt Council is money I have taken from them," Valio shot back to Felix with a grin that betrayed the dark side of the ex-Jedi, "If you think I got your payment doing honest work, I must remind you that I live on Nar Shaddaa as well." He shrugged as if it...

Valio bid the two Jedi farewell, letting each kid stop by and offer him a thank you hug before leaving the Piercer with Syala and Amara. Part of him felt sorrowful, knowing that he might never see those kids again. But it wasn't his job to get attached to them. It was his job to track down and...

Valio watched the padawan, Amara, attend to the children and wondered where that sort of parental instinct lie inside him. He pitied the kids and brought them to the Jedi for their well-being, but he didn't have that tendency to tend to the minor needs. After they picked the kids up and Valio...

As the two Jedi took lead of a procession from the Enclave, Valio embellished the rhytmic tapping of his cane. Past the exit of the Enclave the Piercer was nearby within sight, surrounded by some maintenance droids and a couple clone mechanics, who seemed to be arguing about how someone let...

Valio laid bare the rare Idiot's Array, playing casual as he held up his hands and grinned, "Some Jedi don't believe in luck, but those Jedi don't play cards." As Peshk began dealing a new hand, the exi-Jedi Valio Bendet felt the Jedi turning a corner and coming to their door. First he turned...

"I was always better at the predecessor," Valio mentioned, pulling the cards to him as they were dealt, "Pazaak is much simpler though. Too many rules and chances to cheat with sabaac," As he said that last part he gave a serious I'm onto you glance toward Felix and Peshk.

Valio could feel Felix's uncertainty in the Force, garbled in static like a bad radio, as if his cyborg bits got in the way. But he could sympathize. As they walked toward the Jedi Academy on Dantooine, the ex-Jedi turned slightly to Felix and said, "This is a land that's been killed and revived...

Valio shrugged, "Contact their docking authority if you want clearance, otherwise - it's a farm planet, find a patch of flat land and drop us down." He said, waving his hand as if the answer didn't matter in the slightest." Looking out the viewport, Valio pointed, "There - why not?" It seemed...

The ex-Jedi could feel the Force crawling about Dantooine. Before he could even glimpse the finer points of the surface, Valio could tell where the Masters gathered and where the students practiced, he could feel those who couldn't even feel themselves in the Force. Valio, of course, heard...

Sighing, Valio hung his head in shame. Moving to a chair in the kitchen, he sat cross-legged in the nearest chair. Folding his cane over his lap, Valio gathered himself and began to meditate. The fight was short but it had worn on his already-pained body. He wished he could force the ship...

"It's the piety, their inability to accept their faults and failings," Valio retorted, "the Jedi are flawed and the Sith - evil as they are - are children of the Jedi. The two get so caught up in their own little war they forget the homelands they wipe clean in doing so." The ex-Jedi sighed. He...

"You get so bogged down figuring out who's worth saving or why not that you never actually bother to do it," Valio replied to Peshk, ignoring the question about the kids for the time being. He'd fought this own battle in his head plenty of times, "A teacher of mine once told me there's no such...

Valio's ears perked at the sound of the captain's cabin doors, and felt someone tiptoeing into the room. 'Odd,' the ex-Jedi thought to himself, 'I only felt four presences when I first came on the ship...this one didn't slip in while we were on the transport, did she?' Figuring it to be an...

Valio waved a hand, dismissive of Peshk's noble honesty. "I appreciate the sentiment but save the mercenary morality for someone it will help." Turning back to the thrifty Bothan pilot, Valio took a moment to act as though he were considering it. That the 1,000 credits were the last he had - on...

Valio let out a dissatisfied harrumph and folded him arms. "What one person hears and understands, three others hear and interpret different," he explained, "even a tight knit crew." Then he ignored the brother's laugh and shrugged, "Your value of money is quite different from mine, Asye. I've...

Valio left the gruft Sullustan Gratz to perform solo, choosing to wander about the rest of ship in search of the Bothan siblings. He had to verify Gratz's information somehow, and maybe Peshk or Asye were a bit better informed anyway. Once he'd figured out the layout of The Piercer and tapped...

"Valio," he replied, finally willing to let slip his own name. He often refrained, simply because the people he hired one week might be chasing him the next. But even if he found himself running from this Felix and his crew, Valio didn't mind being known this one time. He spent some time...

Back on the gunship, in the heading toward high orbit, the first thing Valio did was free the kids from their bindings. He paused as he set loose the young nautolan, and thought of JeYa. "Is everyone alright?" They nodded like they'd never nodded before, "Is everyone hungry?" They looked to...