Chapter 90

She leaned against the door as the scowl she always wore morphed into a winged up eyebrow and a twitch on her mouth, if only for a second. "My help?"

Curious how the whole blackmail thing didn't seem to concern her.

"I need a Mind-I. There might be one in the engine room somewhere, but I need you not to tell anyone until I know for sure who I can't trust."

She stayed silent for a long moment. "What makes you think you can trust me?"

"Well, you haven't tried to kill me yet, so you have that going for you." I shrugged. "You seemed to have been on Mase's side during your bar brawl on Orin. What was that all about anyway?"

"I didn't like the way everyone kept staring at my scales, so I decided to put them right in the bar patrons' faces. And my fists. And the lasers in my stun gun. And some of the bar's furniture."