<span style="font-size: 18px"><b><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff">"...Are you sure you know what you're doing?"</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"> Julius asked Lua curiously. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff">"I don't want any traces of what I've contracted you for to come back to me. Not one bit, or I'm dragging you down with me."</span></b><br/>
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<b><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff0080">"I should be asking you that,"</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"> the Zeltron retorted. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff0080">"You <i>are,</i> after all, having me take apart this ship to find stolen goods...how come you haven't checked, yourself? They could easily just be somewhere in one of the storage bays, and you're having me take the entire thing apart for <i>that</i>?"</span></b><br/>
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<b>"Who says that I haven't?"</b><br/>
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<b><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff0080">"Because if you had, you wouldn't be talking to me today, now, wouldn't you?"</span></b><br/>
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<b><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">The former Imperial officer sighed. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff">"Nothing gets past you, doesn't it?"</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"> He hung his head as he leaned onto the table in front of him before looking up at Lua, the wheels in his head obviously turning. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff">"...I want to resell the thing for spare parts. Better than what I can get trying to sell the thing whole--I can turn it over for a greater profit claiming they were lightly used. Best for me to come to you for that sort of thing, you know that, you miserable lowlife."</span></b><br/>
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<b>"And you know my rules. Any turnover, I take a cut. 10 percent."</b></span><br/>
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<b><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff">"Try to pull the wool over my eyes, girl, and you get <i>nothing.</i>"</span></b><br/>
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<b><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff0080">"Lest you forget, </span><i><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(255, 0, 128)">this is my home</span></i><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff0080"> you're speaking to me on,"</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf"> Lua snapped, not taking any of the human's crap. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff0080">"And if you continue that sort of talk, Imperial military or not, I will knock you on your ass and keep you there, and you'll enjoy every second of it...or I'll <i>keep</i> your precious ship, and you and your 'friend' </span><i><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(255, 0, 128)">get nothing. </span></i><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff0080">Two percent, then. And I want the girl."</span></b><br/>
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<b><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">The Imperial sighed and looked off to the side, seemingly around the room to more physically dodge the subject of the other person he'd brought with him that particular evening. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff">"She's not for sale."</span></b><br/>
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<b><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">While he was looking aside, the Zeltron made her move. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff0080">"Move a little closer,"</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff"> </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">she mouthed to her.</span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#0080ff"> </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff0080">"Not gonna hurt you. Need your help for this."</span></b></span>