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of the cave through the arch. With nowhere else to go, she began to head in the direction of the humanoid settlement.
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    REV
    Grenta, Rev, and Bris ran out of the lust cavern as fast as they could. The miners were following.
    Rev looked back and saw the miners had dangerous looking instruments that they were waving in the air. Quam was shouting obscenities at the fleeing men, promising horrible and painful retribution.
    When they were clear of the entrance to the miner's hall, Bris turned and aimed his laser rifle at them. He fired repeated shots of red streaks into one miner after another. Quam fell alongside Jenq and Faul. The pile-up of bodies at the entrance to the mine caused the others to stop.
    "Come on," said Bris. He began to run in the direction of the transport. He touched a section on his shoulder.
    "Jaal, it's a bust," he yelled as he ran. "One of the cargo went sour, and the clients are looking for blood!"
    Rev didn't hear what Jaal replied, but Bris nodded as if Jaal could see him.
    "Come on," he motioned with his arms. Bris ran faster then, and Grenta and Rev could do nothing else but follow. Behind them, a group of miners pursued them in their truck, and they were gaining on the fleeing men. The loud thrum of a ship filled the air. When Rev looked up, he saw the transport descending slowly.
    Suddenly, the transport dropped to the ground and the hatch opened. The gangplank was already extended. Bris ran up the gangplank, and Rev and Grenta followed. As soon as they were on the ship, Jaal pulled the ship into the air, leaving the gangplank and hatch dangling until the ship was higher than the miners could reach.
    Grenta sunk to the floor of the transport, clutching his chest. Jaal was piloting the transport. The ride was rocky, and Rev had to hang onto a grab bar to keep from getting tossed to the deck himself. When he looked out of a hatch window, he saw that Jaal kept the ship close to the ground.
    The transport stopped, and Jaal put the vehicle on autopilot. Jaal came out of the pilot's cabin with a scowl on his face.
    "What in hells happened, Bris? Cax?" He glared at the two men.
    "That other Terran," said Grenta. "Her conversion broke down amazingly fast."
    "That is not an excuse. Where is the money?"
    "They kept putting us off. They wanted to party first," said Bris.
    "What! How many kinds of idiot are you? Did you at least SEE any money?"
    The captain could deduce the answer by looking at the men's faces.
    "Fuck!" Jaal kicked the bulkhead. He set his jaw and stared at the three men.
    "Then we'll go get it," said Jaal. "We didn't come all this way to get taken advantage of."
    "But captain," said Bris.
    "No but captain!" said Jaal. "I'm not leaving here without my money, and if that means killing every last one of these bastard miners, then that's what we'll do."
    Rev turned his head away. This was not good, not good at all. He imagined that Jaal would order them to hit the miner's camp hard. These ship men would not care who they had to kill, but Rev couldn't do it. He was a licensed space cop AND he would lose his chance to retrieve Tracy. This loss of life went against everything he believed in.
    Jaal stared at Rev carefully. "Will you have a problem with this, Cax?"
    "Yes," said Rev. "We aren't likely to get other business if we start killing our clients."
    "Our business is cooked if word gets out that we are selling counterfeit wives."
    "What makes you think that people aren't suspicious now? These miners were very reluctant to give us money. They were WAITING to see if the goods were was descried, and their suspicions were confirmed by Grenta's sloppy work."
    "My sloppy work!" protested Grenta. "You were right there next to me. Everything was done by the normal procedure."
    "Maybe you overestimated the Terran's ability to convert. The first one was a failure, and the second one failed within a few hours of conversion."
    Rev realized he was fighting a losing battle about the miners. He thought that,