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With that, he raised his blaster and shot at several small boxes h she hadn’t noticed the across his face “Thank you,” he said, eyes softening “Giselle, you constantly surprise et out of this one”

“You’re not out yet,” Josiah said dryly “I think you may want to hold the celebration until after you escape I wish to survive this little escapade of yours, so we should probably begin negotiations”

“You have nothing to negotiate with,” Giselle said harshly, poking him with the blaster “You do e tell you”

“No, that’s not quite good enough,” Josiah said “If I believe there’s no way for et out of this situation alive, I have no motivation to ith you Give o e get to our ship,” Giselle said quickly “I proainst the wall “We need to take him with us, at least for a while

Otherwise they’ll just shoot us as soon as we leave”

“Bring an escape pod,” Josiah said softly “You can put me in it and jettison it as soon as you’re out of our weapons range They’ll coet me”

“Are you sure?” Giselle asked, snorting “If it were me, I think I’d leave you to die”

“It isn’t you,” Josiah said coolly “These people need ood plan,” Jerred said “Of course, you have to trust o”

“I do trust you,” Josiah said softly “You need me and we both know it You won’t kill me”

“Maybe he won’t kill you, but I will,” Giselle said in avoice “This isn’t just about him, you know You e”

“We’ll spare your life,” Jerred said, holding up one hand to cal this work Are you with us?”

Josiah nodded his head “We’ll need to go back to the ive them orders,” he said “You’ve taken care of all my spy sensors in here”

“Lead on,” Jerred replied