"Him, smart?" The pilot chortled. "That guy couldn't pick out a Hutt on Kashykk. Not a bright individual, him." "And how would you know that?" Yerbol asked, the formation of a smirk beginning to show on his face. The pilot's eyes widened. "Well, I ah...didn't you hear him say that he was the one that reached out to me? He was my contact and besides, it doesn't take very long to know stupid when you see it." "But see, that's not what I asked. How would you know if the Rodian wasn't very smart? You would have to see an example of his supposed ineptness in action. But maybe it wasn't ineptness; rather, it was the double dealing of a smuggler who saw the opportunity of a lifetime." "No idea what you're talking about." The humans were listening intently as Yerbol refuted the pilot's assertion: "You say that you were hired out by the humans under false pretense, that they blindsided you when you got into space, right?" "Yeah, yeah, I told you th-" "Which means that you would have met the Rodian planetside? After all, he and the humans were working together, right?" "Yeah, but-" "You seem the type to only want to save your own skin, but are more than happy to lay your life on the line with others when some kind of monetary gain is involved. The Rodian has the location of the treasure, doesn't he? You and the Rodian are conspiring together to ensure that the humans stay locked away while you both escape with the loot. After all, you both were deceived: how could you have known that you were being roped into such an affair? The humans were the instigators." "Yeah, yeah, that's totally true!" "But so was the Rodian. He was the one that agreed to the treasure hunt in the first place. You, on the other hand, were actually deceived. While you may be reprehensible in character, you're innocent of the affair itself." The Rodian's eyes seemed to grow larger, venomously declaring: "We were going to kill that son of a whore! Leave his body, take his ship and be off with the bounty of a century, but-" Suddenly the cells vanished, leaving Yerbol and Aria with nothing but an empty chamber. The wall just ahead of them slid open to reveal yet another path, except he could see what looked like natural lighting at the end of it. "I think we might've passed." He looked to Aria with a relieved smile.