A career in Jedi order was officially over. Danyen Wanei needed a new plan. The only family he had was his hated father. Returning to him was out of the question. Danyen had to buy a ship to Coruscant and try to find luck there. Ticket price set him back hard. Joining Republics poorest was inevitable. The first thing that came to his mind was working as security in night club or bar. The military wasn’t an option.“One day I am going face death on the battlefield, but as a Jedi, not as a trooper,” Danyen thought. Getting a job on Coruscant’s surface was almost impossible for a person like him, so he tried his luck couple levels beneath. Sunshine didn’t go with his current life very well anyway. Fear, misery and sadness took over him, but couldn’t stop him from carrying on.
After half day-long wandering, Danyen finally entered the bar, where, according to HoloNet, was owner looking for security personnel. The business had its fair share of customers. Humans, as well as aliens, were drinking, gambling and having intense discussions all around the bar. Danyen would certainly enjoy all the colours from neon lights and reflectors, but in the current moment, it reminded him too much of the situation he ended up.“My name is Danyen Wanei, I came for a job interview,” Danyen said as he approached Twillek bartender. “You might as well turn around and get lost,” replied Twillek while he was scrutinizing him.When he saw, Danyen is not going to say one more word to him, he disappeared into the room behind the bar. After a moment bartender returned with a bald man in a dirty undershirt.“Please Mr Wanei, follow me,” said a man in the undershirt.Danyen followed him to the room behind the bar. “Please, sit,” man pointed to the couch, that was attached to the wall around the entire room.
“Thank you,” Danyen answered a bit angrily after warm welcome he got from Twilek.“So… you would like to be a security employee?” asked manager and pointed open hand on him to demonstrate his confusion.“Yes.”The Manager"Have you seen the men in corners of the bar?” “Yes,” repeated Danyen still annoyed.“Everyone of them is twice your size!” the manager almost shouted chuckling. “I will beat them up all just give me five minutes.” “Well, you can probably understand, why I don’t believe it.”Man dragged a chair from another corner of the room and sit on it. Danyen wanted to continue convincing him, but the manager just raised his hand to shut him up. “Even If you could, this job is not about beating people up. You need to look menacing, you need to have the muscle to push drunks around and you look rather skinny!” Danyen after that paused for ten seconds then just said:"I need a job." "Where do you live?" man asked a bit more serious.“I have some credits to afford a cheap hotel, but only for a few days.”His face perhaps have revealed more than he intended because next thing the manager said was: "You can sleep here for some time. We can get you even some food, but you are to spend nights and early mornings preparing the bar for the next shift." “I would need to think this through.” “Suit yourself.”Then he took Danyen away from the room and yelled on the barman: “Give him some shots on the house, he might be staying here to clean up afterwards.”
Danyen was sitting at the bar starring on the blue coloured shot before him. It was the third day he was making sure the bar would be on another night usable. The couch was somewhat comfortable, but he started to smell really bad. Bald manager gave him some food, but not enough to keep him from the food market. His mind suddenly wondered what would happen If he tried to continue his Jedi training on his own. “Please Elya, you have to find a way to pass me study materials.” “Library system would find out fast somethings a miss. Sorry Dany, you’re on your own.” Despair took over him, as he was pouring blue liquor into his throat. Suddenly life at military didn’t sound so bad. It would give him status and necessary credits to sustain himself. “Tomorrow I am going to check whether any private security company isn’t hiring,” Danyen thought to himself. It would be an almost perfect job for him. He could carry vibroblade at all times and wages were more than decent, but second-tier security services were mostly run by thugs and that’s what he would eventually become. A chance for ending up someone decent simply didn’t exist and getting a job at top tier security company was unlikely even for an ex-Jedi student. “Thinking about your new job?” an unidentified voice spoke from behind him.Danyen looked behind his shoulder.“Yes, but how do you know?” Voice belonged to Bothan in a black vest. He was in his forties and for a Bothan he had a somewhat friendly face. Danyen certainly imagined his kind with more aggressive, animal traits. Bothan took his time with reply and instead pushed free single-leg chair closer to him.“We know quite a lot, Danyen.“ Danyen sharpened. “How do you know my name?” “I know the owner. You should see your face!” Bothan laughed. “Anyway, he wanted me to give you this. Make sure you read it alone.”After that stranger just walked away.“You know him?” he asked the barman. “Never seen him in my life,” the bartender replied while cleaning the glass and watching a stranger leave.When last customer left, Danyen readied bar for another day, lied on couch and opened the letter.
Dear Danyen, we have been watching you since you have managed to get expelled from Jedi training. Our sources say you are talented force user. We know, that you not as bad as most people in the Academy think, but you are different. Crazy would be more accurate. We have decided to contact you because you might prove useful to us. You don’t have to accept the chance offered by us.Despite your undeniable skills, you are expendable. We are offering life with a noble cause. Credits and dignified accommodation. Most importantly I am almost sure you have considered buying Sith knowledge on the black market. Work with us and that won’t be necessary. You would be provided materials you wanted and maybe even more. Start taking long walks in the morning and you will get another letter. This one must be burned. And now a little bit of necessary coercion. We have leverage on everyone we contact. Don’t try to hurt us.
In the morning Daynen went for the walk. He knew the danger, but curiosity took over. “I am not doing anything too illegal. There is nothing too risky about finding out, what’s going on.” popped up in his head. Actually, he was ready to decline whatever they would propose. It just felt too shady. Too risky. On the other hand promise of a continuation of his training was more than intriguing.Three days Danyen took morning walks and nothing happened. On the fourth approached him old man claiming to be a preacher of the force. An old man wanted to sell him a book, but Danyen declined because the man looked like a member of some sect, however, he was very persistent which gave Danyen hope, that he might be offering him a letter he was searching for.Especially considering the fact, that the book was quite cheap even for a situation he has found himself in. And he wasn’t wrong. The letter was indeed inside a book. Danyen again waited until everyone left a bar, cleaned up and opened a letter.
We appreciate your interest. Brotherhood of the force has residency near you. Be there at the same hour you bought the book. Burn the letter. Don’t worry, the sect is just for the cover.
Danyen was standing in front of a steel door leading to the Brotherhoods quarters. It was located in a standard lower-middle-class apartment area. Metallic grey dominated everything around him. Grey pavements. Grey walls. Even grey trash bins. On higher levels were streets decorated with holographic trees and colourful screens.Here people on the other hand had different priorities like keeping themselves in decent living conditions. And for the most part, they had success. Streets were clean and relatively safe. Poor people could ask for help local social organizations offering aid and counsel which was for the majority of citizens living outside of core something completely unknown. „Please, come in,“ someone said through an intercom before he had a chance to ring the bell.In the hallway stood a dark brown table with several pamphlets with titles like „Love force and force will love you“, „How force lead me out of the dark“. Danyen walked into the main room comprised of wooden chairs in front of a small stage with a brown pulpit. After several minutes of waiting, doors behind the stage slid to the wall. From the open room, some man said: “Come in.” Danyen walked into the room realising its kitchen. The sideboard was made of cheap wood, just like everything else, but walls had built-in numerous cooking machines. In a corner stood a middle-aged man in a white shirt, jeans and shoes. He had freshly shaved face and light brown hair. Near sideboard was dining table on which lied dozens of documents. “Sincerely answer all these documents. Lies can be exposed with ease.” Danyen sat down, took pen left on the table and started filling. Questions asked seemed strange to him. “Do you like to stare into the fire?” “Have you ever stolen something?” “Do you often see clouds shaped like animals?”. It took him three hours to answer everything. Unknown man entire time walked around watching him.“To your left is the bedroom. Take some rest, we are going to talk in the morning.” Next day Danyen found only a letter.
You have passed the test. If you want, you may become a member of our society and save many lives from suffering and death, but we are warning you. You are not going to find a good life with us. You are going to find a noble life. You are not going to find comfort. You will find purpose. In the sideboard, we have left a case with two lightsabers.Take one closer to you, If you are interested in helping us. If not leave both. Consider with great care, there is no right or wrong option.
Danyen searched the sideboard and found the case. Took hilt closer to him and activated it. Dark purple light immediately flew out. It was one of the best lightsabers he has ever seen. “How did they get it?!” he muttered. Luxury brown fur was implanted to hilts sides for comfortable and firm holding. Danyen took a few swings and then returned it to the case. Despite his not very successful start of a new life, he had options.Danyen didn’t need this kind of trouble, everything he wanted could be achieved by him alone. As he saw street from the opened main entrance, he realised this decision was made from the very first day of his life. “Every normal person would walk away. Every rational person would walk away. Walk away and live.” “Walk away and live,” Danyen whispered his final thought silently as he stared into nothingness. Then he turned around.
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