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[sketchycharacter]

In that case, I had nothing to do with it.

[t65]

[Luke groans.]

I can't believe you had me down there with you, asking questions and everything, and you didn't tell me.

[sketchycharacter]

Speaking hypothetically, why would I? That was the first time I ever met you.

[t65]

I never said I was going to turn you in! I just wanted to get people's wallets back. If you're going to be so suspicious, you shouldn't steal things. [Far from sounding angry, his voice hits a register best known as 'whiny'.]

[sketchycharacter]

If you're going to steal things, you have to be suspicious. I'm surprised you don't know that if your best friend is a thief.

[t65]

Han? Han's a smuggler, he's maybe a little paranoid, but it's not the same. [Luke rolls his eyes.] I guess I can't blame you too much.

[sketchycharacter]

You couldn't blame me, hypothetically. And yeah, you couldn't. You were a stranger—a friendly one, but still.

[t65]

[Luke laughs.] At least I was friendly.

You're really not gonna help me give these back?

[sketchycharacter]

Eh, I'm sure there's a lost-and-found bin somewhere. You can just dump 'em there.

[He's sure Luke won't, but he could.]

[t65]

You can't dump wallets in the lost-and-found!

[sketchycharacter]

Sure you can. They've been found, haven't they?

[t65]

They'd just get stolen again!

[sketchycharacter]

Really? Wow, there must be a lot of thieves on that planet. That's terrible.

[t65]

[Luke rolls his eyes.] You know what I mean.

Look, just don't get caught if you keep doing this kind of stuff. You never want to get arrested on an alien planet.

[sketchycharacter]

I've been arrested in pretty bad places. I can handle myself.

[It would be pretty crappy, though.]

But I will. Honestly, I just needed to get it out of my system.

[t65]

[Luke shakes his head.] You've never been 'arrested' by a Hutt.

You needed to get stealing out of your system?

[sketchycharacter]

No, but I've been to Pizza [...Hut] and it was pretty bad.

It was like stress relief. Turning to old familiar habits after being space kidnapped.

[t65]

[Aaand now Luke thinks 'pizza' is an alien race. Great. Thanks.] If you say so.

Are you a full-time thief? I thought you were an artist!

cough http://www.pitt.edu/~nsc15/images/pizza_the_hutt.png

[sketchycharacter]

I draw for fun. I'm a treasure hunter for a living.

I KNEW IT.

[t65]

[Luke's flattest look (it isn't very flat) goes here.] 'Treasure hunter'. Yeah, and smugglers are mailmen.

as a child I saw Spaceballs before Star Wars. That was an experience.

[sketchycharacter]

No, for real. Ancient artifacts, lost cities. That's my main focus...or it was, anyway.

[Might be time for a career change after recent events.]

But sometimes theft for a client is how you finance those jobs. The pickpocketing is just a leftover skill from when I was on the streets.

[t65]

[Luke sighs.] I guess so. You couldn't, I don't know, find work that paid all the time? I know it's hard to find work that's legal sometimes, but there's got to be a market in treasure hunting.

[sketchycharacter]

I don't think you know much about treasure hunting. Look, if you're worried I steal from people who can't handle the loss, don't, because I don't. Mostly it's rich collectors and other assholes.