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Sidna jumped and shoved the blaster right in his sternum.
    “I
said slowly,” she snarled. “Any more
sudden moves like that and I’ll blow your head off—I swear by the Goddess of
Judgment, I will.”
    “Sorry,”
growled Thrace.
“But the Demon’s Eye—that place is a fucking viper pit! Every murderer,
skinner, psycho-slicer, and mind-raper in the known universe is welcome there.
Any one of them will kill you just for looking at them the wrong way. And with
that type it doesn’t matter how you look at them—it’s always the wrong way.”
    “You’re
not telling me anything I don’t already know. Anything I haven’t already said
to Trin,” Sidna said tightly. “But she thinks she’ll be safe because she knows
the male who runs the place.”
    “She
knows B’Rugh?” Thrace
could scarcely believe his ears. Trin certainly didn’t seem like the kind of
person who was on speaking terms with the most notorious crime-lord in this or
any other galaxy.
    “She
beat him in a card game once,” Sidna said. “He’s been after her to come and
‘visit’ him on his home base ever since. But up until now she’s never been
stupid enough—or desperate enough—to go.”
    “Why
in the Seven Hells would she go now?” Thrace demanded. “Especially
without anyone to watch her back?”
    “Why
do you think? Because of you.” Sidna
waved the blaster at him accusingly.
    “Because
of me? What are you talking about?”
    “You
mean she didn’t tell you?” Sidna raised an eyebrow at him disbelievingly.
“Buying you nearly bankrupted her. I finally got the whole story out of her the
other night—she spent fifty thousand credits on you to get you free of that slaver
at the Flesh Bazaar.”
    “Fifty thousand credits?” Thrace could scarcely believe it. The
sum was ten times what even the most accomplished and highly trained slave was
worth. He’d been bought at a high price the first time he was a slave but his
old Master could afford it—Trin couldn’t. “Why the fuck would she spend so much
on me?” he demanded.
    “I
have no idea.” Sidna gave him a
withering look. “Especially since all she really wanted was a male to stand at
her back and look pretty at the Yonnie Six state functions. And you plainly
can’t even be trusted to do that.” You worthless piece of scum, her tone
implied.
    “She
told me she didn’t buy me for sexual reasons, like the Yonnite mistresses buy
body-slaves,” Thrace
said. “But I never knew she just wanted me for backup.” Backup he hadn’t
provided—and wasn’t providing now. Trin was alone in a den of thieves, rapists,
murders and every other kind of criminal. And he wasn’t there to help. I could’ve been, he thought. If she’d trusted me enough to let me up,
enough to take me with her. If I’d given her any reason to trust me.
    “She
bought you to save your worthless life, Havoc,” Sidna snapped. “She told me the
slaver who sold you was trying to kill you with the pain collar he’d put on
you. In my opinion, it’s a pity he didn’t succeed.” She shook her head. “Trin
always was too soft hearted—although I never knew her to let her feelings get
in the way of good judgment before.”
    “I
can’t fucking believe it…fifty thousand credits.” Thrace shook his head.
    Sidna
sneered at him. “You would’ve been overpriced at fifty credits-let alone fifty thousand.”
    “Look,
I can tell you don’t like me but I didn’t ask to be captured and sold as a slave,” Thrace growled. “Any more than I asked to be bought and chained to a cot
for days on end.”
    “Well
you’re out of your chains now—much good may it do you. Come on.” Sidna was
poking him with the blaster again. “Get going. The sooner you’re off this ship
the better.”
    “What
the fuck do you plan to do with me?” Thrace growled. “Blow me out the
airlock into deep space?”
    “Don’t
tempt me.” The medic’s voice was grim. “But no—Trin would never forgive me if I
did