“Would you get out of my way!?”
Thrawn grunted. “You’re in my way.”
“No way! I was hired to kill the target first!” Eli argued. “You’re the backup!”
[Can you two cut it out?] Their comms echoed through, and their colleague Karyn let out a groan. [You BOTH were hired to take out Krennic. Just two different clients.]
“See, Eli? You weren’t the first,” Thrawn smirked.
“My STARS, shut the fuck up.” Eli glared.
[Target first, argument later.] Karyn reminded them. [Now go! Get moving!] With that, the comm disconnected.
“Karyn is right,” Thrawn nodded. “Perhaps we can work together on this target? Double the payment is good for us,”
“...fine,” Eli let out a sigh. “What’s the plan, then?”
“Well, I’m better at long-range shooting between the two of us,” Thrawn hummed. “And you’re better at surprise attacks. Perhaps we can use both to catch Krennic off-guard enough, so we can both take a kill,”
“Alright, sounds fair,” Eli nodded. “You shoot to distract an’ I’ll come in jumpin’?”
“Yes,” Thrawn gave a nod, placing the mask over his mouth. “It’s better if we follow him to an empty room, to not catch anymore attention as well,”
“Right,” Eli placed his own mask on him. “I’m aware that he is to meet with Governor Pryce later today at the factory. We can either sabotage his walk to the factory or…”
“...we create a holographic illusion to trap him on sight,” Thrawn grinned. “I like the way you think, my dear,”
“I know,” Eli chuckled. “Now come on. Flirts later, action now,”
“Right,” Thrawn took out a bow and arrow. “Praytell on how you only have a knife on you? This assassin might be a droid of some sort,”
“Whether it is or not, I always trust my precious knife,” Eli twirled around his blade before placing it in his pocket. “And I always hit my target,”
“Good,” Thrawn snickered. “With our skills together, we would be able to do this before the night ends. Perhaps after, we may get to know each other then, hm?”
“I’ll take ya up on that offer, Thrawn,” Eli turned around. “Come on, I saw Krennic run along this side,”
“Lead the way, dear,” Thrawn faked a bow, a grin on his face.
Thrawn could feel Eli’s smirk within the mask, but he argued nothing, only following after the other assassin without a second word.
Needless to say, they both managed to earn money for a date that night.
