Hessta stared coldly at the bound man he had been interrogating for the past twenty minutes. Neither one had spoken, but Hessta had been staring at his target with his unblinking eyes and sharpening his scimitar. The effect was quite pleasing to Hessta, as the man had begun to squirm uncomfortably about five minutes ago. Finally, Hessta silently moved closer to him, never once breaking eye contact.
"You have two options." His voice was harsh and the 's' was just slightly extended, Hessta usually toned down his Yuan-ti accent to make it simpler for people to understand him. "The first: You could stay silent and force me to use these," He raised his scimitar with ease "Which, while giving me a good round of fun, would make my employer very unhappy." He smirked "After all, no one likes to collect money from a dying man. Or, if you would prefer to keep your face as it is, although a little surgery wouldn't hurt, you could give me the money you owe and I can go on my merry way." Hessta ran a finger along the edge of his blade and flicked his forked tongue out "Your choice."
The man was obviously afraid, Hessta smelled his fear and could sense his rising body temperature, and after a few moments, the man looked away and Hessta frowned. He inched his way closer and put the blade of his scimitar on the man's arm, putting almost enough pressure on it to draw blood. The man gulped and struggled to get his arm out from under the blade.
"Okay, okay! Don't kill me!" Hessta smiled and the man spoke again "The money is in my account, if you let me go I can get it out and come back."
Hessta hesitated for only a moment before he slammed his arm under the man's neck and pushed him and the chair he was tied to up to the wall. His voice was deathly quiet and his accent came through clearly "Do you think I have never heard that before, Sscum? I am not the fool you take me for." He glared coldly and bared his fangs "Here iss what'ss going to happen now: You are going to give me your account number and passsword, I am going to take you to the nearessst checkpoint, and I will tesst your information by withdrawing the money you owe Madame Giran." He put the blade of his scimitar under the man's chin "If it doess not work or triggerss an alarm, I will have to take the money in the form of flesshh." Hessta knew he wouldn't have to follow through on his threat, because the man immediately nodded and spoke in a panicked, fearful tone that Hessta always found amusing.
"Yeah, okay! P-Please don't kill me! You can have the money, just let me live!"
Hessta dropped the man and smiled "Excellent." Once again, his accent was hidden and he dragged the chair onto his ship.
Madame Giran smiled at the pile of money in front of her. She turned to Hessta and furrowed her brow slightly "You're sure this is the full amount?"
Hessta shrugged "I wouldn't be here if it wasn't."
Madame Giran laughed "Oh, excellent work! You know, that pest avoided the last three bounty hunters I sent after him, I should have called you sooner." She winked "I guess it's true what they say: If you want it done right, get Hessta Kerso to do it."
Hessta forced a smile and slithered to her desk "Of course. My pay?" He held out a hand and Madame Giran laughed again.
"Always business with you, Kerso! You should learn to have some fun!" Hessta didn't move and she sighed, opening a drawer "Fine, fine. Here you are, just as I promised." She handed Hessta a small computer chip and pointed to it "That program will allow you to go undetected by almost any starfighter, although the bigger ones are a little trickier to fool."
Hessta nodded and turned towards the door "It's good enough for me."
Just before he left Madame Giran smiled and tossed him some money from the pile on her desk "Here!" He caught it easily and she smirked "Go get yourself a girl or something!"
Hessta forced another smile and left, rolling his eyes as soon as the door was closed. He muttered under his breath "Humans."
As soon as he got onto his ship, he installed the chip Madame Giran gave him and took off, eager to test it out although he didn't once forget his reason for getting it. Hessta flew off towards Corvais and smiled.
"I'm coming for you, Gortex."