Monique “The Bruiser” Brewster watched from Sedition Control Forty as the hapless junker loaded a set of pristine-looking crates aboard the Salvager. Much too pristine for a junker of his caliber. She was guessing it wasn"t junk.
A Sedition Control Investigator with more than five thousand subjects under surveillance, the Bruiser had been alerted to the junker"s activities when he"d slipped past a Galactic Patrol on Canis Dogma Five. The entire episode on the Vega Strip, and especially his bizarre escape from his Ballsy Palace captors, had convinced her he was the slimiest trickster she"d ever encountered.
The vids of his departure from Canis Dogma Five would have been hilarious had she had any disposition toward mirth. Two slack-jawed, drool-slathered patrol officers had watched insensa
