Ahsoka Tano; Mightiest Force Wielder (Book 1: The Rise)

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They reached the airspeeder and Ahsoka told Mike, that she needed to get a holster for a light saber and also wanted to stop by an underworld shop for used arms. Getting there, Mike wanted to wait outside. When Ahsoka came back, with a suitable holster for the magic saber, she saw Mike standing together with a couple of other people. Coming closer, she realized, they all stood around a shell game where 3 shells would be moved around on a plate, with one of them containing a small sphere. Mike was completely focused on the dealer, turned out, he had made his first bet. Obviously he won. Now the dealer praised him for his quick eyes and made Mike bet much more on the second round. The dealer started the new game, putting the small sphere under one of the shells and shifting them around. In between, a couple of times he lifted the one shell housing the sphere, thus giving Mike more confidence. Suddenly the dealer stopped. Mike was about to point to the correct shell, when he got jostled by another spectator. In that instant, the dealer swapped two shells. Now the dealer looked at Mike again asking for his tip. In that instant, when the dealer was looking up, Ahsoka used the force to swap those two shells back and Mike won, much to the despair of the dealer. The dealer urged him again to place another bet, but Ahsoka called Mike rather harshly: "Com'on Mike, I wanna go."

He wanted to say something, but Ahsoka shouted at him: "I'm starving. My sugar level 's low. I need something to eat."

Mike started again: "But, I -"

Ahsoka half way turned around and cut him short: "Let's go!"

The dealer was yelling something after them, but Ahsoka pulled Mike's hand, not letting him return.

When in the airspeeder, Mike was sad and did not talk. Ahsoka felt sorry, and was not sure, whether she should just let him loose his money? She just wanted to help him tough.

She then remembered, what Mike had said about the inquisitors at BOSS's place. She wondered, why anybody cared about those villains of the underworld anyways, and then inquisitors. Something was wrong, very wrong. When there were inquisitors, then they knew, that it was her, inquisitors don't deal with the ordinary crooks, they deal with the top fugitives only and a Jedi is a high priority fugitive. She patted Mike on his legs and asked: "How much did you win?

Mike grumbled back at her: "I won 50 credits, but I could have won a 100 in the next round."

Sweet-talking and with twinkling eyes she responded: "I was not aware that you could win more money, I thought it was over. I'm sorry. Let me treat you nicely. What about lunch?"

That made Mike a bit more blithely: "OK." It came to Mike's mind, that maybe, he would not have won the next round. That guy had not been there to lose money to Mike, quite the contrary. One or the other way, he might have lost his money anyways. If not in the next round, then in the one after. Mike did not want a bad atmosphere between Ahoska and him and he engaged his com link and searched for Togurta restaurants. After he found a couple, he came back to Ahsoka: "There is a Shili take away not far from here?"

Ahsoka delighted: "Togruta food, sounds good to me."

Mike send the coordinates of the take away to the airspeeder's navigation system and Ahsoka confirmed the autopilot's request to fly there.

Ahsoka still had that BOSS thing on her mind: "Who besides me knows where you live?

Mike flabbergasted: "What do you mean? Which other women know my apartment?"

Ahsoka harrumphed: "NO! I simply wanted to know, who knows you live there, either male or female?"

Mike: "So it's not about women?"

Ahsoka: "No, not about women, it's generally, who knows that you, Mike, live in that, your upper class, apartment?"

Ahsoka's comment about his apartment made Mike happy: "I'm glad you like my apartment. Hmmm, obviously you, my landlord and my neighbors, but they don't even know my name."