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Chapter 13
by TMJ2008
Find anything worthwhile when you search the bodies (and I don't mean stuff you can pawn later for some quick creds)?
On top of some new gear, I actually think I found a clue!
You search through the bodies of the gang you cut down and make some good finds. You find some ammo for your pistol which you pocket after reloading your weapon. You find a new knife to replace the one that had been made into a handle for an improvised flash-bang and even an improved blaster to replace your now ruined secondary weapon, this one a bit larger than the one you sacrificed, but also packing a bigger bang along with that heavier frame. Not a bad haul, really, considering you didn't expect to get into a firefight and loot bodies today.
But the biggest find you make is when you get to the body of the leader. You search his jacket (after deciding that, despite it being quite a bit higher in quality than yours, you would draw the line at stealing clothing off of the dead) and find a datapad in one of the inner pockets. You try and get into it, but find that it's locked by a fingerprint scanner. That, however, is easily bypassed as you pick up the dead man's hand and press his thumb against the pad. The datapad gives a beep and the screen shifts from the locked screen to something else.
What shows on the screen now is a picture and a message beneath it. The picture is of a young Raxasian female. You guess she's pretty but it's kind of hard to tell with Raxasians. They are a humanoid species that is mixture of reptile and mammal. Their skin is usually varying shades and made up of scales like a Terran snake's, smooth and cool to the touch. They possess many traits of mammals, however, including hair atop their heads and mammary glands. They lay eggs, but still feed their young with their milk as they grow. They possess long tails that are thick at the base and thin towards the end, usually touched with protrusions like bumps or spikes upon the top of them. Of course, the most striking thing about them is their facial appearance. Their skull is shaped mostly like a human's, but they do not possess a nose, instead having slits where nostrils would be. They do possess lips like a human would, but their teeth are sharp and their tongues long and forked. Their eyes as well are drastically different from a human's, slitted and usually a solid amber in color. As such, it's difficult to judge Raxasian beauty by human standards.
Still, given the chance, you'd probably hit that. Though, really, there's very few species you wouldn't try your luck with if you were given a chance. You're an equal opportunity promiscuous hedonist like that.
Anyway, this particular Raxasian has long blond curls that fall about her head and the usual angular features of Raxasian people. Her face is perhaps a bit thinner than most and her lips fuller, but you don't see anything special about her. But there obviously is something special about her as the message beneath the picture of the Raxasian's face is simply, "Find her. Bring her to me." followed by a set of coordinates that you judge takes you far out of the system the Junk Moon is located in.
You study the datapad for a moment before standing up, starting to delve into the settings and controls for the datapad so you can bypass the security at a future date and dig further into it at your leisure. As you do that, you look over at the gathered working girls and guys and look them over to see if any of them match the image you saw on the datapad. You doubted you'd see her as, if she was in plain sight, there wouldn't have been a need to ransack the place but, hey, stranger things had happened and stupid mercs had been stupid and unobservant before.
Is the reptillian babe in the crowd or are you gonna have to do some more looking?
A Smuggler's Life For Me
Get Paid and Get Laid in Ethically Questionable Ways...in SPACE!
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