p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;""Go!" Nile yelled as she pushed the contact toward the door./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"She then turned to the three ISB men, waiting to see how they'd react./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"They drew their blasters./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Nile drew her lightsaber from beneath her soaking robe, igniting its blue blade. Said blade slashed through the lead agent's blaster, taking his trigger finger with it. The other ISB men were stunned into inaction./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Taking the advantage, Nile raced out the shop's front door after the contact. He stood aghast outside, not having a clue what to do next. While disengaging her lightsaber and storing it under her robes, Nile looked about the lot./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"She spotted a two-man swoop. Grabbing her contact by the arm, she pulled him in that direction./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"As Nile and her contact climbed aboard the swoop, the ISB security men burst from the shop. Their blasters were at the ready, their eyes searching for their targets among the rain, pedestrians, and swoops./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"The salesman Nile had encountered earlier approached her and her contact. His protective flyer sailed above him as he argued against their taking the swoop for a test drive without signing paperwork./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Nile looked past him to see the ISB security men making their way over./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;""I'll get to it when I get back!" the contact said. "Don't want to miss a sale!"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Nile fired up the swoop./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"The ISB men stopped a short distance from the swoop. "Turn off that engine or be fired upon!" one of them demanded./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"The salesman threw up his hands and fell to his knees in supplication./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Nile pushed the throttle and turned the swoop hard one hundred and eighty degrees. The bottom rear engines threw dust and rain at the ISB men. They immediately threw up their hands to protect their eyes./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Turning the swoop again, Nile launched it at the street. She had to pull back at the last second as a passing landspeeder raced past./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Checking behind her, Nile saw the ISB security men still shaking their heads to clear the debris she'd blown on them. Turning back to the street, Nile found an opening in the swiftly moving traffic and eased the swoop in./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Corana fired off a shot that nailed Cragen square in the chest./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"The a style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: underline;" href=" wiki/Trandoshan" target="_blank" rel="noopener"Trandoshan/a fell backward, slamming into one of his men and taking him down with him./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Piani quickly drew the vibrorapier at her side and stabbed at one of Cragen's other two men. Her attack missed its mark, but the slaver's dodge put him at an awkward position from which to attack./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"The Zygerrian slaver who had met Cragen at the bar fired back at Corana. His shot sparked against her cover, enough to throw off Corana's aim. She still returned fire, missing the target but spooking him enough that he dove away./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"He landed hard, knocking his blaster from his hand./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Piani took another stab at the man near her. This time her blade thrust home, piercing the man's heart. He seized, then went to the ground bleeding./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"The Twi'lek smuggler looked to the suit. He gasped, then fainted. Piani didn't have time to catch him./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Corana moved from her position and to the fallen Zygerrian. He reached for his blaster. Corana's foot stomped on his wrist, preventing him from getting his weapon./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"He looked up directly into the barrel of Corana's blaster carbine./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;""I'm gonna bet you'd like to keep your head on your neck," Corana said. "Which means you're gonna tell me where that man's cargo is."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"The slaver didn't hesitate. "On the ship! Storage hold. Cragen has the code!"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Corana kicked the Zygerrian, knocking him unconscious. She looked to Piani. The Twi'lek moved to Cragen, who was still groggy from the shot to the chest. Piani kicked him onto his back and held her vibrorapier to his throat./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;""The key code to your storage hold," Piani demanded./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Cragen spat blood. "One, nine, seven, seven."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;""Thanks," Piani said. "Depending on what's in that compartment, you may live to see another day."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Cragen started up, but Corana's foot stomped on his chest, reigniting the pain of his blaster wound and drawing a wince from the slaver. Corana put the muzzle of her blaster to Cragen's forehead./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;""She may let you live," Corana said, "but I owe you a whole lot of payback for ratting out our colony at Bandomeer."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"The slaver sneered at Corana. She pressed his wound again, soliciting a scream from Cragen./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Piani ran up the em style="box-sizing: border-box;"Princess's Claw's/em gangplank./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Back before she'd met Corana, Piani had spent time on the em style="box-sizing: border-box;"Princess's Claw/em being transported as a thirteen-year-old slave girl. Eleven years later, she still remembered her way around portions of the ship./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"She moved directly to the storage hold, where she and several other young women had spent their miserable traveling time./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Piani reached the storage hold and entered the key code on the electronic lock. The door slid open, revealing a large area made cramped by several crates of various shapes and sizes./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Amid the crates, sitting in the near darkness and heat, Piani saw six young women, not one of them older than their teen years. Anger seized Piani. She grabbed the commlink at her side and called back to Corana./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;""I have something here," she said. "Bring that son of a bitch Cragen and the suit in here so I can decide which of the two I'm going to kill first."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"To be concluded…/em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"She then turned to the three ISB men, waiting to see how they'd react./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"They drew their blasters./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Nile drew her lightsaber from beneath her soaking robe, igniting its blue blade. Said blade slashed through the lead agent's blaster, taking his trigger finger with it. The other ISB men were stunned into inaction./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Taking the advantage, Nile raced out the shop's front door after the contact. He stood aghast outside, not having a clue what to do next. While disengaging her lightsaber and storing it under her robes, Nile looked about the lot./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"She spotted a two-man swoop. Grabbing her contact by the arm, she pulled him in that direction./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"As Nile and her contact climbed aboard the swoop, the ISB security men burst from the shop. Their blasters were at the ready, their eyes searching for their targets among the rain, pedestrians, and swoops./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"The salesman Nile had encountered earlier approached her and her contact. His protective flyer sailed above him as he argued against their taking the swoop for a test drive without signing paperwork./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Nile looked past him to see the ISB security men making their way over./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;""I'll get to it when I get back!" the contact said. "Don't want to miss a sale!"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Nile fired up the swoop./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"The ISB men stopped a short distance from the swoop. "Turn off that engine or be fired upon!" one of them demanded./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"The salesman threw up his hands and fell to his knees in supplication./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Nile pushed the throttle and turned the swoop hard one hundred and eighty degrees. The bottom rear engines threw dust and rain at the ISB men. They immediately threw up their hands to protect their eyes./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Turning the swoop again, Nile launched it at the street. She had to pull back at the last second as a passing landspeeder raced past./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Checking behind her, Nile saw the ISB security men still shaking their heads to clear the debris she'd blown on them. Turning back to the street, Nile found an opening in the swiftly moving traffic and eased the swoop in./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Corana fired off a shot that nailed Cragen square in the chest./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"The a style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: #1e73be; text-decoration-line: underline;" href=" wiki/Trandoshan" target="_blank" rel="noopener"Trandoshan/a fell backward, slamming into one of his men and taking him down with him./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Piani quickly drew the vibrorapier at her side and stabbed at one of Cragen's other two men. Her attack missed its mark, but the slaver's dodge put him at an awkward position from which to attack./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"The Zygerrian slaver who had met Cragen at the bar fired back at Corana. His shot sparked against her cover, enough to throw off Corana's aim. She still returned fire, missing the target but spooking him enough that he dove away./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"He landed hard, knocking his blaster from his hand./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Piani took another stab at the man near her. This time her blade thrust home, piercing the man's heart. He seized, then went to the ground bleeding./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"The Twi'lek smuggler looked to the suit. He gasped, then fainted. Piani didn't have time to catch him./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Corana moved from her position and to the fallen Zygerrian. He reached for his blaster. Corana's foot stomped on his wrist, preventing him from getting his weapon./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"He looked up directly into the barrel of Corana's blaster carbine./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;""I'm gonna bet you'd like to keep your head on your neck," Corana said. "Which means you're gonna tell me where that man's cargo is."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"The slaver didn't hesitate. "On the ship! Storage hold. Cragen has the code!"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Corana kicked the Zygerrian, knocking him unconscious. She looked to Piani. The Twi'lek moved to Cragen, who was still groggy from the shot to the chest. Piani kicked him onto his back and held her vibrorapier to his throat./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;""The key code to your storage hold," Piani demanded./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Cragen spat blood. "One, nine, seven, seven."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;""Thanks," Piani said. "Depending on what's in that compartment, you may live to see another day."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Cragen started up, but Corana's foot stomped on his chest, reigniting the pain of his blaster wound and drawing a wince from the slaver. Corana put the muzzle of her blaster to Cragen's forehead./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;""She may let you live," Corana said, "but I owe you a whole lot of payback for ratting out our colony at Bandomeer."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"The slaver sneered at Corana. She pressed his wound again, soliciting a scream from Cragen./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Piani ran up the em style="box-sizing: border-box;"Princess's Claw's/em gangplank./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Back before she'd met Corana, Piani had spent time on the em style="box-sizing: border-box;"Princess's Claw/em being transported as a thirteen-year-old slave girl. Eleven years later, she still remembered her way around portions of the ship./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"She moved directly to the storage hold, where she and several other young women had spent their miserable traveling time./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Piani reached the storage hold and entered the key code on the electronic lock. The door slid open, revealing a large area made cramped by several crates of various shapes and sizes./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"Amid the crates, sitting in the near darkness and heat, Piani saw six young women, not one of them older than their teen years. Anger seized Piani. She grabbed the commlink at her side and called back to Corana./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;""I have something here," she said. "Bring that son of a bitch Cragen and the suit in here so I can decide which of the two I'm going to kill first."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"To be concluded…/em/p