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“We’ll decide what’s necessary and what’s not,freelancer.”
“Uh-huh! Unlike you, we know how to do our jobs.”
“Nothing exciting in the cleansing chamber,” cop number 3 –Hab?–announced then, disappointment clear in his voice. “Well, well, well, what did I miss?”
“Nothing,” came from right over Emilia’s head. “Yet.”
Riiiiip.
“Hey, what in the name of the Three?”
Riiiiip.
“This is unacceptable! I’m going to report you three.”
What the hell is going on up there?
“We’re doing what’s necessary, is that what you’ll report?” Fab, the biggest asshole in the bedroom, asked while the ripping sounds continued overhead. “Because we can always report you’ve been obstructing our search.”
“That’s right!” Hab said with glee. “It’s clear you’re hiding something. Your ship is too clean to be clean.”
“Uh-huh! What are you hiding in those expensive cushions,freelancer?”
“The bounties he gets at our expense, I bet. I can’t wait to throw him in the darkest cell–”
“Shut it, you two,” Fab cut his colleagues’ nasty banter off, “and come get these rags out of here. I want to check underneath.”
Oh, crap.
“Sab can clean up. I’ll get the bioreader warmed up for you, Fab.”
Crap, crap, crap.Emilia couldn’t be sure this ‘bioreader’ did what she suspected it did, but it definitely sounded like the first step to her and Dar’s doom.
She was a sitting duck down here. She had to do something but what?Think, Emi, think! What does a person do when discovered under someone’s bed?The answer was simple: there was no saving face, be you discovered by your lover’s parents or spouse. You were where you weren’t supposed to be and that was that–Unless…
Emilia bent further until her head was as far down between her knees as possible, leaving some space for her to move her arms over her head. Reaching for her waist, she realized how difficult it would be to make her idea happen in this tight space, but failure was not an option. She bent some more…There! Now to slip this off…
“So? Any biosignatures, Fab?”
Oh, shit. She was almost out of time!
“Can’t get a reading through this metal… But there’s bioresidue on this section here.”
Shit, shit, shit. She needed a few more seconds!
“There might be a door here. Hab, ready the biolock buster.”
“Colleagues, that’s just my pet’s hibernation chamber. Can we please–”
“Sab, keep your pulser trained on the Luvian.”
“Here’s the device, Fab. We’ve got you now,freelancer.”
“Uh-huh! Busted.”
Done!Emilia had made it! Now all that remained was to play her role flawlessly.
And hope that these space cops were pervs.
