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Mason picked up the processor “I’ll carry this back”

Marching down the corridor to the ht of the unit Jade followed behind, still plying him with questions

“So how did you find him?” she asked

“I didn’t A friend ofaway Krul’s location” He swung the unit into the cavity in the wall and stepped back

Jade began to reconnect the wires to the control panel “Bounty hunters? Doesn’t that ot competition?” It worried her and she wished Mason had a backup tea alone

“They’ve paired up I’ rivalry will also tear thereedy to share” He perched on a table, watching her work

“Krul, you haven’t said , like Curtis

Mason didn’t say anything as she plugged the last lead into the back of the processor unit She pressed hi runner?”

“No,” Mason sighed “Okay, I’ll tell you He’s a lizard man”

She dropped her tool and rose to her feet, eyes widening “A lizard one into hiding”

“Most of them live quietly on swamp planets However, he committed an atrocity”

She pressed a button and the processor began to churn A lizard man looked humanoid, except they had scales for their skin, flat noses, and razor-sharp teeth Instead of brittle fingernails, they grew short claws and their eyes could move independently of each other She’d never seen one and had read about them at school

“What atrocity?” There had beenthe one that killed her cousin

Mason cleared his throat “You’d have been a kid Do you remember the explosion at the military hospital—”

She did, everyone did “That killed hundreds of soldiers and medics!”