Welcome to Gaia! ::

Flynn paused to wipe the sweat from her forehead, effectively creating a line of oil across it. She was hard at work repairing a tourist's personal "companion droid", a rather primitive "female" android programmed with only a limited set of favorable responses to interactions with the owner. The responses ranged from giggling, to caressing, to simply cutting to the chase and disrobing. Trouble was, she had recently developed this awful whirring noise and shut down in the middle of intercourse. Ah, the wonders of modern technology!

Just as Flynn bent to return to her work, her concentration was broken by the crash of metal falling to the floor. The cacophony was followed by a slur of curses from some of the apprentices toiling in the other room, and it was only a matter of time before Flynn heard that meek, pathetic voice.

"Flynn?" it said. "I think I broke something..."

Adelaide. A sweeter girl there would never be, but someone clearly crossed her wires wrong when they made her.

"That's alright, sweetheart," Flynn said to the blond-haired girl who peered timidly around the door. "It'll give those lazy boys something to do later. I think they can afford to spend a little less time on the holodeck and a little more time working for a change."

Flynn could hear a few muffled complaints from the apprentices. She would never have spoken so kindly in response to one of their screw-ups. But Adelaide was special for reasons they just couldn't see.

Adelaide was busy hastily picking up the bashed and bruised metallic parts she had knocked over while sweeping. She was alone in the front room--Flynn was hard at work in a broken android in her office and the apprentices were failing at pretending to work on another project in the much larger workshop in the back. So, naturally, when Adelaide heard another voice in the room, she gave a start, dropping and further damaging a few of the very pieces she was trying to preserve.

"Ah..." Adelaide looked up at Yoshia helplessly. This really was a terrible day, and she usually did her best to stay out of the way of customers.

"Tea?" Adelaide repeated after dumping the parts she held in her arms into a box on a low shelf nearby. "Um...well...I think most of the eateries are on the upper decks, closer to the ship docking areas. But we have tea here if you're looking for Flynn..."

Adelaide immediately felt a bit silly for saying that, considering this man had just made it clear that he was looking for a restaurant and not Flynn. Besides that, all the tea they had here had been made by her, and both Flynn and all the apprentices had agreed that her tea was just about the most foul-tasting brew in the universe.

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Adelaide brightened a bit, not seeming to notice the odd looks she was receiving from the man.

"Oh, it's free for customers, sir," she said. "And this is Flynn's engineering workshop. It's not so much a store as a...build and repair center, I guess. She works on commissions, mostly, but she's really an amazing engineer...I think she could build just about anything!"

Adelaide's admiration for Flynn showed clearly on her smiling face. It was the sort of look one might expect a puppy to give when adoring its owner.

"There's a chair over there," Adelaide continued, motioning to a seat in the corner. "If you take a seat, I'll go fetch the tea and Flynn for you."

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Adelaide smiled and curtsied awkwardly in return, attempting to be accommodating to this man's old-fashioned ways.

"I'm Adelaide," she said. "And you'll have to discuss commissions with Flynn. I'm afraid the whole thing is beyond me."

Adelaid laughed awkwardly before giving another little bow and hurrying out of the room to fetch both the tea and Flynn. Just a few seconds after she had disappeared from sight, the sound of Adelaide's voice shouting "Flynn! Customer!" broke the rhythmic whir or Flynn's machines. After a pause of a few more seconds, Adelaide once again reemerged in the room and delivered a small teacup and plate to a table beside Yoshia. The teacup was made to appear like ordinary glass, but it kept the liquid inside at a constant temperature while keeping the outside cool to the touch.

Adelaide bowed once more, seeming to think this was a gesture she needed to repeat often, and bustled out of the room.

"Yoshia," He bowed slightly, "Are you up to date on lightsaber technology?" He asked curiously, his hands pulling out a small crystal from his robes.
"Because I want to get something new age, but with a classic format. However...this commission; you wont be allowed to say who its for or whose paying for it."

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"Jurain Imperial," He said simply. "I need a Jurain Master key, thats gentically locked; and uses this crystal." He held up the tiny rock. "Now about that tea...?" He asked smiling.

"Ah, nevermind." He looked down at the tea he was holding in his hands. "Old age," was the only explination he bothered to give before drinking some of it.
"By the way, do you know what a master key is?"