The Clocktower

[Nova-FoV]

Sabrina walked Emily home, then headed to the clock tower where she lived.

((to be supplemented according to Qardo's Afterlife post))

[Qardo]

(From your post Nova

Qardo and Seiji followed long behind the two ladies. Soon Seiji taps Qardo on the shoulder and left as there was no need for him to stick around.

"Now Miss McCoy. What would you like to talk with me about?" Qardo asks as he followed behind him as he looks back behind him eying the Salarian as he didn't trust the looks in its, well his, eyes. Yet he looks back as he kept on walking waiting on that reply.

[Nova-FoV]

((Actually, I expected you to reply in Afterlife and then I would edit and fix that last post at the beginning of the topic, but this works too. Also, Seiji already left. ))

Sabrina meandered in the direction of her clock tower, but didn't go inside. No point in his knowing where she was staying, now was there? As for the Salarian, he was harmless for now. It wasn't until he actually acted that she would begin to worry.

"To be honest, Mister Qardo? I don't believe any of this dribble you're spilling about being in the transport business. I think that you're trying to scam my friend, and I can tell you now, if you are, it isn't going to work." As they came to her street, she found a couple of boxes that overlooked this part of the station and sat down.

[Qardo]

(Oh...well...screw it lol. I'll work it and forgot that I had Seiji leave oh well XP he is gone once again.)

Qardo nodded and thought for a bit. He saw this reaction as he taps his chin looking around the clock tower. Soon his gaze goes back to her.

"Well now this is no scam. I do run a transport business," he said as his gaze never broke. True a person well trained can pull off a lie as a truth but Qardo was never trained in that. He was always told to tell the truth no matter what. Well at least a half truth but in this case it was true.

"The little show you saw was from my years with the System Alliance. So as I know your either thinking now. I am some to bit mercenary working with some slaver or really working something good. I'll tell you know the first idea is wrong. In fact closed a slave ring last week. Why do you think those guys tried to rob that bar?" He explained a bit half ass.

Soon he starts to wander around in a circle as he shifted his glasses and soon noticed something and took them off, "Well damn...got them scratched," he muttered to himself and shrugged putting them back on.

Then, his gaze went back onto Sabrina, "Now as for the truth. I run a little gang that helps the little person. Like you and that mother. With issues that the are above Spectres, C-Sec, and the Alliance. Sure it is a little illegal but breaking the law is the only way to enforce the law at times," he started off again and stopped as he halted his movements while staring at her for the reply.

[Nova-FoV]

"You talk like you're going to save the whole damn galaxy..." Sabrina said, staring off over the streets of Omega. "But it doesn't work like that. Tonight I saved Emily from getting hurt badly, and I may have saved her little girl's life. But in a hundred other places the same thing is happening, and those women aren't lucky enough to have a savior. So why bother? What good can you possibly be doing? That is, supposing I believe you in the first place, which, by the way, I still don't." She lost focus on the conversation for a moment as she caught sight of a tear in the cuff of her showman's coat. It would be carefully mended later when she was rid of her company, but she knew that the coat wouldn't last forever and this saddened her greatly.

[Qardo]

"Well one person cannot save the galaxy from corruption on their own without ending up corrupted as well. I know that one small act may not make a difference to many but I don't see that large. I help one person and they help another and so forth. The act of my action and my little marry band just start the kind act and let it go forth," he tries to explain slightly, "It may sound coy and stupid but you have lived in this bleak place for too long to see beyond your own eyes and thinking."

Qardo soon start to slowly pace about seeing if she was listening, "Also be able to find someone to get a new getup your wearing," he soon added to break up the subject and knew it would grab her attention.

[Nova-FoV]

Sabrina glared at him as he mentioned her clothes. "I like what I wear," she replied coldly. They weren't necessarily her only clothes- she did have others, at least for the sake of hygiene. But these were her favorite, and she wore them most often.

"And if I can't see beyond my own perspective, then you have too much faith in the good nature of people," she continued in response to his earlier explanation. It was true- she'd lived on Omega too long and seen too much of natural instinct to have any faith in it.

It suddenly occurred to her that she had an urge to grab his glasses and break them, but she feared what retaliation would come, and now was not a good time to get in another fight.

"Besides," she began again, this time less harshly. "Can you honestly tell me that if I left Omega I'd still be free? Just because I haven't been off the station in a long time doesn't mean I don't know about other places. They'd stick me in an asylum somewhere, try to 'fix' me. But I'm tired of people trying to fix me."

[Qardo]

"Only if you allow yourself be in your little asylum," Qardo replies as he shifts the glasses over the ridge of his nose. His gaze never broke from hers even as she broke eye contact a few times.

Soon enough he walked around stepping ever closer to her, "May seem I have faith but some time faith is something you learn to rely on when dealing with people at times," he said as he seemed to hear something and placed his hand against his ear.

"Yeah....yeah...no...yes.....no.........no........no...........no.....yes," each time he replied seemed to grow more depress as it seems that he was talking to someone, "Alright...no I have no idea whe...." He just rolls his eyes and removes the ear piece he had and pocketed it.

Soon he sighs, "I see why you are lacking in faith now...." he commented as he was proven wronged to himself basically.

[Nova-FoV]

"I see why you are lacking in faith now...."

Sabrina chuckled a little at that. Oh, the tragic irony.

"Let me demonstrate something, shall I?" she said. She slid off of the crate and pushed it out a little so that she could use it at as a table between the two of them. She then produced from her pocket three small cups and a bright red ball. Did she carry these around with her all the time? He would probably never know. She set the ball and the cups on the crate. "There's a game that many of the urchins on the street like to play with visitors to the station. A gambling game. The player bets on whether he can find the ball, and the urchin hides it." She set the cups upside down in a row, one of them concealing the ball. She then started sliding the cups around in a configuration that was simple enough to follow. "Now, the player thinks himself smart and clever. He thinks he's going to outsmart his urchin. But really, why would the urchin take that chance? Why give the player even a chance of being right? The player thinks that the ball is right where he expects, when in reality," she stopped the shifting and opened her palm, revealing the little ball. "It's in the place that the player would least expect. Because this is more than a game to the urchin. It is his survival."

She set the ball down and leaned on the crate. "Here is the point that I am trying to make. On Omega, on these streets, it's about survival. For the most part, one cannot survive with the well-being of others in mind. Now. Do you understand my lack of faith?"

[Qardo]

Qardo claps lightly as he enjoyed that little story soon answers, "Personally I like a game of dice or cards over a shell game," he says, "Now that you are slightly wrong. You have a faith. Just not in a faith of others. You have a faith in yourself on getting through the day. That is all I am getting at," he clears up as he holds out his hand as the ball flies up into his palm. he rolls it around his fingers looking at it.

"Now unlike your little Shell game you pulled. It is easy to cheat with a slight of hand," he soon clothes his hand and opens it as it was gone, "Dice and Cards it is easy to cheat but with set odds like six-sided die or 52 cards. Figuring it out the cheater is quite easy."

Soon he reaches close to her and pulls out the ball from behind her ear, "Then, in some cases able to point the blame to others," Soon he places down the ball, "That is how you see the galaxy. That is why you call it survival as well. That is your faith."

Soon Qardo backs away as he let the ball drop onto the table and it settles peacefully.

[Nova-FoV]

Sabrina smirked slightly as he went through the simple magic tricks. They were ones that she knew well. Her father had taught her magic from a young age, so she knew many of the classic tricks, and still performed some of them when she had the resources. But Omega wasn't exactly the easiest place to find the stuff of magic.

"Somehow I can't decide what to believe with you," she said, eying him. "It could be that you're a hopeless optimist who honestly believes that he will do his own little bit of good by helping people off the station. Or it could be that you're putting it on as an act, so that you can win me over and therefore gain access to Emily as a client." She paused for a moment in thought, but then shook her head. She really couldn't decide.

[Qardo]

"Oh? You misunderstand. I am only here because of business. The mother and daughter was a whim of my brain. Normally I stay away from this place," he replies back as he takes a slow pace around. He thought on her comments on if he was making this all up. May seem like he was staling and in fact he was. Not for the reasons she was thinking.

"Tell me Miss McCoy. Do you all think this is one big show? You think your the leading star not wanting to share the spotlight with anyone? Like the ring leader in a circus?" Qardo soon asked as he soon seemed to be on the attack. He was going to push buttons now.

[Nova-FoV]

Sabrina didn't reply. Of course she knew that everything wasn't about her, and she knew that there were bigger things out there than herself. But the fact of the matter was, by living in her own little world where she was a ringmaster in the circus of life, she was able to deal with a lot of things that would break another person. Or, perhaps she had already been broken and this was the madness resulting.

With the silent, she gave him a searing look. She had an idea of where he was going with it, and if he hit a nerve she would retaliate. Possibly with physical force. In a fight hand to hand, she would lose. But when she attacked someone, it was never in a straightforward way.

[Qardo]

"Ah...just as I thought," Qardo replied as he had a smug look but that faded as he reaches into his pocket pull out the ear he used as a phone/radio, "Yes? I am a...what?" He pulls away as this seemed important.

"What do you mean he double the payment?" he went on, "Did you at least get the equipment?" He stood there walking around waiting, "So...he doubled the payment after the transaction....typical...knew this would happen. Is the ship secured?" He walks around again as he stops, "Okay...wait they're looking for me?"

His head whips around as he heard something. Just as he had a dot in aimed for his head. Yet the gunman's head just explodes as a gunshot sound explodes through the air just after the man hits the ground. "Well they found me," he said to one person as he pushes a small button, "Thanks Les...you get a raise," That is when he removes the ear piece as cheers could be heard and then a yelp as gunshots could be heard only two blocks away.

Qardo looks around, "Miss McCoy, if I may make my some fair advise. Best go inside and stay away from the windoe~." he cuts off as he ducks as a shot goes off hitting the box that Shabrina was sitting on.

Just out of shear reflex he forces on the thugs running as he threw out his arm sending them all flying backwards down the alley. Just as he did that his glasses shatter from the pressure wave he caused around his body.

(XP Had a random robbers. Now dealing with his problems. The arguing wasn't going to go anywhere now. Had to break that up. With action...busy day.)

[Nova-FoV]

((I commend you. RP with two is tricky because it's hard to keep things interesting.))

Sabrina crouched defensively behind the crate at shots rang out. It was an instinct for a situation she had grown well accustomed to.

"Miss McCoy, if I may make my some fair advise. Best go inside and stay away from the window."

She didn't need to be told twice. As Qardo turned to face his assailants, she climbed up the pile of crates with the dexterity of a monkey. She ran along the side of the roof of the building with perfect balance, and when she reached her tower she climbed up the side as if she knew every cranny and foothold its walls held. It was hardly a minute or two before she had disappeared through a high window to wait out the fight. If Qardo won, maybe he'd be too busy to deal with her any longer. If he lost- well, c'est la vie.