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On the bright side, she looked nothing like Giselle the bar, too She’d seen her picture flashing across a security screen they’d passed on the way out to his ship The station guards were saying she’d attacked them without provocation She had no illusions as to whether she’d survive her initial arrest to try and tell her story to a judge Sula hadn’t had that chance, and neither would she It was safer and same

By the tioing to fall off While Jerred busied hi a code into the airlock, she took a moment to look out the s and graceful looking Nothing at all like the grotty spacers she was used to seeing in one-ood enough at it to keep the credits flowing regularly She wondered what kind of business he was in He’d beenwith Vetch to discuss “business,” but that didn’t exactly narrow it down Vetch was a typical freighter captain, and every load he carried was likely to be different

But Vetch’s ship wasn’t even close to being this nice Nor in the kind of credits Jerred see around Would she be safe with hiht He was safer than the station guards, and that was all that estured her ahead of hih the lock Then he pressed his ship’s key into the slit on the outer hull of the ship The second door slid open, and she stepped into the hter she’d ever seen

Instead of the norned with coht scent in the air, a teasing fragrance that sang along her nose It sht her breath How did he ently with a swirl of colors, as if the ship itself was happy to see the toto him with questions in her eyes

“What kind of ship is this?” she asked slowly “I’ve never seen anything like it”

“In ood iht up front,” he said slowly “I like my clients to know that oods on ti order This helps lend some credence to that claim”

She didn’t buy his explanation for a moment, but noasn’t the tiive hihtest excuse not to take her with hierous place for her over the past cycle

A chirping sound broke through her thoughts A bird?

“What’s that?” she asked, startled

“End program,” he said shortly The noise ceased, and the walls faded to gray ra on what you’re interested in”

“What was that setting?”

“That was arden,” he said shortly “Your cabin is the second one on the left Go ahead andaway in about an hour if everything goes right”

She nodded, walking over to the cabin and opening the door It was barely big enough to turn around in