Downtime

[Erremnart]

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Virginia sighed and took the chip from Morreti, "So who's going to pay for my dope? You, the Alliance, the entire LFR?", she quickly asked him a series of questions, but before he could answer them she continued, "Twenty grand is a lot of money, is it... six months of captain's salary?".

She leaned her back against the wall behind her and rested her hands on her chest, the chip still held between the fingers of her left hand, "And please don't tell me I'm 'strong or strong and independent'. I'm not some dreamy c*nt from Manhattan that everyone has to praise for her beauty, strength and independence or else she's depressed and feeling inferior.". She brushed a strand of wet hair out of her face with her right hand and shrugged, "I'm one of the Sirian elite when you think about it...I'm a battlecruiser captain. Though I don't know how many such battlecruisers there are in Sirius, but I'm guessing there aren't more than a thousand in the entire sector. Hell, maybe even less than hundred."

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