"More likely they'll come looking for the store-disintegrating weaponry that was smuggled onto the planet and then off without a trace." And that might almost have worked, if it wasn't for the loot being sold here.
"But you don't-" have any fingers, she was going to say, before she got it. Internally, she sighed. Strange, that someone so non-humanoid still followed the human pattern of curses.
"The people in charge are not on this ship," she pointed out. "Eventually the GIA will make physical contact with us; eventually the Daligig are going to download from Stacy a copy of exactly what we've done, and for all I know, what we were thinking while we did it." She paused a moment, maybe to think happy thoughts. "And if they can capture that level of detail, you won't even be able to say that it was all Lash's idea."
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"But you don't-" have any fingers, she was going to say, before she got it. Internally, she sighed. Strange, that someone so non-humanoid still followed the human pattern of curses.
"The people in charge are not on this ship," she pointed out. "Eventually the GIA will make physical contact with us; eventually the Daligig are going to download from Stacy a copy of exactly what we've done, and for all I know, what we were thinking while we did it." She paused a moment, maybe to think happy thoughts. "And if they can capture that level of detail, you won't even be able to say that it was all Lash's idea."