Snubnose

[Unseelie]

Casablanca Base was always pretty. Holly was raised here. The halls were clean, air fragrant, and the engineers were topnotch. So were the accommodations, beautiful rooms, full bath, even my own kitchen. Not that I cooked...but it was a nice touch.

They asked me here for negotiations. You always call it negotiations. I was leaving with that pilot, if I had to tear the place apart for him....money would do, though.

She was an old Hessian a bit wrinkled, but reasonably well preserved. And she wanted eighty million credits.

"No. Noone is worth that"
"You want him, we have him, and you can afford it."
"I could storm this base, steal him for half that." this made her chuckle
"Hardly. Eighty."
"No, a mine slave is worth fifty thousand, and his ship might be worth ten million...for parts." I hate slavers. Especially Samura. The Hessians are hardly better.
"He is much more than a miner, you know this. The ship is a fully equipped Rhienland Bomber....the armaments alone are worth thirty million."
"Yeah, if it were intact, sure. now, after you dug it up, nothing will work."
"You are hurting me....seventy million, surely, he is worth this."
"He's worth dirt. I want his ship, and I need him to open it....ship's worth, thirty million, only, and its broken."
"You are trying to take my property...you come here, insult my people, offer a pittance for the prize we gained in blood. I shouldn't sell to you at all." So I stood up...
"You don't want to be reasonable, I'll get it myself." Which she did not like me saying.
"No...no Madam, fine.....fifty million." never take what they offer.
"Forty, or I walk."
"Forty eight, for the widows."
"Forty five, done." she was old....try something.
"Done?"
"Done, forty five million credits, untraceable. I want him drugged and in my ship, now." and, I left, gotta run with these things, or they fall through....

Hells below, he's beat up...slumped on my bed like a drowned cat, bruised, cut, half starved, and still wearing his flightsuit...what was left of it...gotta see about getting him checked...before he wakes up...can't keep him drugged, either, the state he's in.

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