"Keep up that line and I will sick her on you. Trust me when I say you won't like that. Just ask Sac'rix how his hand feels."
The man pauses. Eyes me for a few minutes shakes his head then turns back to De'rax.
"Moving on. What is it you are wanting De'rax buddy, pal o mine?"
De'rax takes a page from me and raises an eyebrow. "Plinac I have nor will I ever be your pal. However I am your partner in business but if you keep trying to screw me over. Then I will have to say our business partnership will come to an end."
Plinac freezes. He gives De'rax a deer in the headlight look before he bolts. Shoving the girls out of the way he jumps over the couch and scrambles towards the side door. I'm a split second behind him slamming him into the door. I hear a crack and scream as I break his leg. I step back as Plinac continues to whimper. De'rax steps up beside me.
"Well Plinac have you decided yet?"
Plinac moans. "Yes yes fine I will stop. Just don't let the Wolf at me again."
"I can't promise that. However, as long you stick to our contract I can keep her back."
"Yes please I will. Now can you call the guard back in here so I can have my leg looked at."
"I will tell him on our way out the door."
We turn to leave. Taking a glance back at Plinac I see him crying trying to move his broken leg. He isn't going to be moving any major jobs any time soon.
The way back home is smooth and problem free. I worry if A'va has made any progress in finding Ka'ri. As we step off the ship A'va is waiting with papers for De'rax.
"I need you to look these over."
"Please tell me that this is not the reason you way laid me before I even get home?"
She looks puzzled a minute but quickly catches on. "Uh no lord General. I have news about Ka'ri."
"Well don't just stand there stalling. Spit it out."
She fidgets... If she had glasses I could see her pushing them back onto her nose. She clears her throat then begins. "I have located her. She is in a non descript house recently purchased by Sif'ar. This was why we didn't find her earlier. To cover his tracks in taking her he had Sif'ar help."
"Doesnt surprise me De'rax. Those two are two peas in a pod. Although if he has Ka'ri then does he have anything on Sif'ar?"
De'rax looks down at me as I comment. Shaking his head and shrugging his shoulders. He basically says he's not surprised either and doesn't know.
" Very good A'va. Now we just need to figure out how to get her out of there. Unless you have gone over that to?"
She shakes her head. "No. I was waiting for your insight on the property."
"Very well let us head back to the house. Hand me those papers I will read them on the way there."
A'va hands them over and true to his word he reads every line on our trip back. It wasn't much but they were just confermations over the trip er just took. We head into his office as soon as we step through the door.
" Caylee bring me some java will you?"
He sits at his desk as Caylee darts in. Setting the cup on the desk she gives me a quick hug tells me we will talk later and dashes back out. A'va and I sit across from him waiting for him to look at the information she dug up. He takes a while perusing tapping his fingers as he thinks.
"Here. On the edge of the property is an old train line. It was decommissioned when hover cars were invented. It rides right up under the very edge of the fence. If we can dig a hole right here. We can pop up into the property silently sneaking around the fence and into a back window. Not sure where she is being held inside but we can quickly find out."