Things To Do, People To Spy On

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I held out a hand to Dante to help him up. "We should probably get started looking into this. I'll check out Bibble and see if I can manage some time to travel to Naboo."

"How incognito do you think we need to be when we go home? If at all?" he asked. He held my hand comfortably as we slowly walked towards the park's exit. I love little things like that, it’s comforting and reassuring with still a bit f thrill behind it.

I pondered his last question as we walked. "Honestly, I'm not sure. I would say we shouldn't hide that we're going or that we're on the planet. I'm not so sure we should make our itinerary common knowledge, though. Would you want to do surveillance on either of them while we're there? I'm not sure we'd catch anything useful in a short time." I walked slowly, trying to absorb as much of the sights and smells of natural things before we left. "What do you think," I asked.

"If we're going all the way back to Naboo, we can't not spy on them," he replied. "But you're right -- it's doubtful we'll catch them doing anything obvious."

"As far as a cover story, I could say I'm looking to invest in some property or some businesses and you're along to give me some advice. That way when we travel to a few different cities it doesn't look in any way odd," he said. "Does that work for you?"

I nodded, "Yes, though I think we should only mention that if asked." Of course if either of our mothers found out, it’d be a much bigger issue, but hopefully they wouldn’t know what we were doing. I made a face when he mentioned Good Morning Naboo.

"If that's the case, then I'd like to avoid them knowing we're on planet. I really don't want to be on the holo again. That and I'd like to keep my personal life personal," I replied, smiling up at him, "I'm sure you can appreciate that." "You mean you don't like being the object of public speculation?" Dante asked in mock surprise. "Then I guess I can't drop by my house to say hi to my mom, 'cause she'll tell everybody." he pouted, indicating that he was joking. "Well, we could always stop by and say just as we're leaving, that way, if anyone gets told, we'll already be back on Coruscant, where we are thoroughly uninteresting and unexciting. Of course this could end up being low key time off if Padme is wrong, which is also fine by me."

As we walked on a little further, another question popped up. "Who do we want to observe? Or do you just want to let the intel we collect decide that?" "The latter," he replied. "I don't know what we'll turn up once we start digging." I nodded and started thinking about what we should bring with us for surveillance, then switched out of that mode and just enjoyed the walk.

As we exited the park, Dante looked down at me and smiled, “This should be interesting.” I had no idea how right he’d be.

Fin

see Cpt Typho's POV here and what the good Senator is up to here