The Promotion of Lord Sazet

I wasn't a made man yet, so we are talking quite a few years ago. The Mandalorian Wars had not yet started, House Yinkyo was just working on deals with Czerka Corporation and considering how to negotiate with the Sith. You would think, looking through the fog of history, I would forget it like I have forgotten so many things, but this moment stands out.

I was working security, basically manning the monitor bays, which captured everything which was going on in Yinkyo tower. Rows and rows of panning images. At first I found this job endlessly fascinating, but it gets old quick and I remember being bored. Perhaps that's why I noticed, I'm not sure, but the camera in Lady Mazet's room. It wasn't in a blatant sweeping way, but the way you only notice because the pattern of what should be is so ingrained into you, that when it is not, it stands out.

The camera turn from its precise angle, which captured all of the room, from the front door to the fire place. It shifted in such a way you could no longer see the door, but you had a much better view of the Lady's desk and the balcony beyond. Being an underboss, she had quite the view, but this wasn't the angle is was supposed to be at. So, I engaged the manual override, which allows for remote adjustment of the camera, and attempted to move it back. I say attempted, because it wouldn't respond. Every time I went to adjust the camera, I was kicked out of the system. In other places this might not have been a big deal, but in the tower it is. I was terrified.

Just a moment later, while I could still hear my heart in my chest, Lady Mazet walked in with Lord Sazet. In those days he was not known in the way he is today. Yes his father was the boss, but it wasn't clear who his successor would be and there were several candidates who were better positioned than he. Even so, there was something special about him. He was so graceful, he made the Lady look clumsy. Where she was tense, he was casual, where she looked forced into her business suit, you couldn't imagine him any other way. He became so magnetic to watch, for just a moment I forgot about the malfunction in the security system.

He stood before her desk, arms outstretched as she sat down. He slipped his hand into his jacket, a dark silvery imported material, and with finely gloved hands withdrew an envelope, which he handed to her. He looked disinterested while she read. He straightened his suit, and verified his top knot was still held tight and aligned so that it fell directly down the center of the back of his head. He look at a small globe of Faleen over the fireplace, while the Lady looked more and more stressed. Finally, as if not noticing what bad news the Lady had been given he opened the door to the balcony and stepped outside.

She dropped the papers on her desk and came to him, just outside framed perfectly now by the malfunctioning camera. She wasn't the boss any more. It was clear she was coming to him and clear that he was in charge. She needed him. He leaned in close, so close I image she could feel his breath on her ear and poured his words, like honey, over her. You could see them transform her, taken from where she was broken, to resolved to perhaps even relieved. She moved a hand up to embrace him, but Sazet stepped back, instead bowing toward her and then moving toward the door, out of the view of the camera.

In the next few moments, the Lady sat at her desk crying, then catching herself and writing. Finally, she sat the pen down, returned to the balcony, paused for just a moment, than jumped.

I called it in a quick as I could. Getting the authorities, calling a team from her floor, doing everything I could. In the chaos of trying to deal with the situation, though, I watched in shock as Lord Sazet returned to the room, perhaps 5 seconds after she jumped. He took the letter which she had written and the envelop he had give her and started walking toward fire place. It was just then the camera cut out completely. He was gone before security got to the room.

I don't know what it was he did, or how exactly he did it, but he was promoted nearly immediately. Of course, no investigation was ever done and it was just a few weeks before Lord Sazet seemed to take an interest in my career development and even my family. To this day he still sends gifts on my children's birthdays.