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Lu worked on his communicator, trying to reach anyone who had information on what was ahead of them. It didn’t look good. He’d already received two reports. There were a couple of illegal requests for hired men from the Wilds. Hunters and trackers for the tenth princess, as she’d been seen in the area.
He didn’t like the sound of that. Men from the Wilds were lawless, if you trusted the reports. Assuming the pay was high enough, they’d be ambushed again by morning. He got up and grabbed his communicator. Rasha would be down at the bar by now, sipping her juice. Jak might be down there too since he didn’t seem like the tuck-in-with-a-good-book kind of guy. He’d have the room to himself tonight, if Jak’s reputation proved true.
A soft knock at the door changed his plans. He opened it a
