Shaala listens unhappily to the report, fidgeting in her seat as traffic slows to a crawl, then stops entirely.<br/><br/>As the Republic officer gazes back at her, the young Togruta momentarily returns the gaze, puzzled, then looks past her towards the red blur. With the speeder's canopy closed, she can't rely on her montrals to really give her the three-dimensional understanding of the world that she is used to, but...<br/><br/>She exhales for a long, slow moment, closing her eyes and trying to assemble in her mind the same sort of three-dimensional<em>feeling</em>she would expect her montrals to give her from what her eyes alone were telling her through the speeder's canopy, and to weigh that against the turbulent threads of the Force generated by so many millions of people within just this tiny area of Coruscant, not to mention the flow of anger and outrage within this one little stream of speeders with their impatient occupants.<br/><br/>There's a hurtling flash of bloodthirsty, desperate red blossoming within her mind, and it's getting larger. Closer.<br/><br/>Shaala's voice is calm, and she doesn't address Merryn. But then she isn't Merryn's<em>padawan</em>and Merryn isn't at the controls...<br/><br/>"Lieutenant, if<em>that,</em>" she nods towards the hurtling flash of red without opening her eyes. "...Is the murderers, then backing out of their way might be the<em>least</em>effective thing to do."<br/><br/>As if of its own accord, one of her hands rises towards the canopy's emergency release, and without hesitation, pulls it.<br/><br/>There's a twin shock, first the bursting charges going off and kicking the canopy back hard on a single hinge and out of the way, and then the sudden thunderous influx of a Coruscant airlane with who knew how many hundred packed speeders and other, larger craft moving above and below. The young Togruta's horns...No, they don't<em>twitch</em>, but it's almost as though they take the lead, dragging her head around so that when she opens her eyes she is gazing straight at the oncoming red speeder.<br/><br/>Her hand drops down again to rest just below the release of the impact restraints holding her to the speeder's seat. "Can you block them?"<br/><br/>Her tone makes it clear that by "<em>can</em>," what she really means is "<em>will</em>."<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC UtF roll</div><div class="spoiler_body">Probably "Search Your Feelings" is more appropriate here than "Sense Surroundings:" At 2014-07-22 23:20:11, CarnivalOfTheGoat (uid: 27539) rolls: 1d20a10 Result: 29 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=61821)<br/><br/>Also, oh good grief, her Acrobatics skill is positively <em>awful</em>. (+3)<br/><br/>I know that per Saga Edition, Togruta spatial sensory range for detecting hidden people, etc., is only about 50', but I imagine that if you're picking up pressure changes and using echolocation then something big moving toward you is more like the pressure wave in front of a subway train...On a still day, you can feel it coming. And also slightly leveraging the whole business that is in the canon but doesn't-exist-in-the-game-rules about interactions between Togruta spatial awareness and the Force. If you feel this is over the top, I apologize...I got one shy of a natural 20 and I feel like we need to get this game kicked into high gear so I figured I'd sort of push things over the edge as hard as possible...</div></div><br/>EDITL: But she<em>does</em>have her utility belt, with liquid line and grapnel and all! Hooray for<del>girl scout</del>Jedi preparedness!