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“Easy, easy,” Dev said, trying to calshells since she boarded the Arrow after being dropped off on D’Arian She’d e andback to resettle the other humans Once they arrived on the settlement planet, Sloan set up a fund for all the et started and to provide reserves for any others she discovered in the future

Having this reserve on the planet went a long way to ensuring the settle and helpful as it could be to the new arrivals The whole five er, but Sloan knew she couldn’t keep those credits She’d deood they could do for others Setting up accounts all over the sector to tap into when needed would h

What she’d done was best, Sloan tried to reason Xan deserved someone ould kno to not e ad nausea to worry about He would find so sound out of Sloan as she drank some more ale

Dev and Erl exchanged worried glances Sloan waved them off

“Don’t worry, boys, I just needed enough to helpdown from her stool

“Didn’t know those dah You reured out it worked only if they touched you that we figured out how to contain that one,” the large Kirill trader behind Sloan bellowed He was at a table sloshing his drinks all over his other companions

“It’s not all D’Arians, though His brother certainly didn’t have any poe took the rest of his credits froet rid of his brother I say good riddance to those D’Arians He was an excellent fighter once rapped those hands of his” A slightly s another gulp of his drink

Sloan felt 100 percent sober at what she’d overheard She whipped around with laser focus on the Kirill horde

“What did you say?” she practically shouted at the table “Who are you talking about?”

The group kept s of your concern, feer one said dismissively

Without pause, Sloan kicked out the chair of the closest Kirill and storound her boot into his groin, and he let out a shrill scream Sloan took out her blaster and trained it on the rest of the table Dev and Erl backed her up with their blasters out

“I’ll ask again, ere you talking about?” Sloan ground her foot into the Kirill with each word He let out another round of shrieks

“It’s no one Soer Kirill dis back to his coo after their weapons Dev and Erl both shot at their hands, close enough to singe, but not direct hits They both jumped at the unexpected blasts Dev and Erl trained their blasters on the big one at the center of the group, while Sloan kept hers trained on the one on the floor

“Who was it?”

“Soet rid of him and paid us to dispose of the proble to rehed in relief Sloan whipped her head around to Dev and Erl The shock on their faces said it all Ragon had betrayed Xan Ragon was on D’Arian with Xan now What was to stop hi another attempt on Xan’s life, especially because no one knew of his treachery? Sloan had to get back to D’Arian as quickly as possible